{"id":1354,"date":"2022-10-17T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?page_id=1354"},"modified":"2022-10-17T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:47:41","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Space Western&nbsp;Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A glossary of terms useful in understanding the Space Western genre and Space Western adjacent works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<section>\n<h2 id=\"bat-durston\">Bat Durston<\/h2>\n<p>A Western transposed into outer-space. Specifically a story that went to lengths to hide the Western origins. Derived from the name of the main character appearing in the Galaxy Magazine back covers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/galaxy_1950-10_rearcover.webp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/galaxy_1950-10_rearcover-213x300.webp\" alt=\"YOU\u2019LL NEVER SEE IT IN GALAXY\n\nJets blasting, Bat Durston came screeching down through the atmosphere of Bbllzznaj, a tiny planet seven billion light years from Sol. He cut out his super-hyper-drive for the landing . . . and at that point, a tall, lean spaceman stepped out of the tail assembly, proton gun-blaster in a space-tanned hand.\n\n\u201cGet back from those controls, Bat Durston,\u201d the tall stranger lipped thinly. \u201cYou don\u2019t know it, but this is your last space trip.\u201d Hoofs drumming, Bat Durston came galloping down through the narrow pass at Eagle Gulch, a tiny gold colony 400 miles north of Tombstone. He spurred hard for a low overhang of rim-rock . . . and at that point a tall, lean wrangler stepped out from behind a high boulder, six-shooter in a sun-tanned hand.\n\n\u201cRear back and dismount, Bat Durston,\u201d the tall stranger lipped thinly. \u201cYou don\u2019t know it, but this is your last saddle-jaunt through these here parts.\u201d\n\nSound alike? They should - one is merely a western transplanted to\nsome alien and impossible planet. If this is your idea of science fiction,\nyou\u2019re welcome to it! YOU\u2019LL NEVER FIND IT IN GALAXY!\n\nWhat you will find in GALAXY is the finest science fiction ...authentic,\nplausible, thoughtful... written by authors who do not automatically\nswitch over from crime waves to Earth invasions; by people who know\nand love science fiction...for people who also know and love it.\"\/><\/a>\n<fig-caption><em>Bat Durston<\/em> ad, <em>Galaxy Magazine<\/em> October 1950<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2 id=\"space-opera\">Space Opera<\/h2>\n<p>Space Opera is to Science Fiction what Horse Opera is to Westerns. Coined in 1941 by Bob Tucker in his fanzine <em>Le Zombie<\/em> to mean a \u201chacky, grinding, stinking, outworn space-ship yarn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/space-opera_le_zombie-1024x140.webp\" alt=\"SUGGESTION DEPT: In these hectic days of phrase-coining, we offer one. Westerns are called \u201chorse operas\u201d, the morning housewife tear-jerkers are called \u201csoap operas\u201d. For the hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn space-ship yarn, or world-saving for that matter, we offer \u201cspace opera\u201d\"\/><fig-caption>Definition of Space Opera, LE ZOMBIE #36, Bob Tucker 1941<\/fig-caption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/space-opera_fancyclopedia_1.webp\" alt=\"space opera (Tucker) - A hack science-fiction story, a dressed-up western; so called by analogy with \u201chorse opera\u201d for Western bangingshootemup movies and \u201csoap opera\u201d for radio yellowdramas.\" \/><fig-caption>Definition of Space Opera, Fancyclopedia I, 1944<\/fig-caption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glossary of terms useful in understanding the Space Western genre and Space Western adjacent works. Bat Durston A Western transposed into outer-space. Specifically a story that went to lengths to hide the Western origins. Derived from the name of the main character appearing in the Galaxy Magazine back covers. 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