{"id":2,"date":"2007-04-08T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?p=2"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:37:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:37:37","slug":"space-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/articles\/space-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"section\"><span class=\"dc\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span> look at how the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) mixture of the Western and Science Fiction genres has endured since the early days of Science Fiction. What is causing its modern re-emergence (Cowboy Bebop, Firefly\/Serenity, Daisy Kutter)? Where did Space Westerns come from and why haven\u2019t they just mosied off into the sunset?<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7570\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunacon_cowboys.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunacon_cowboys.mp3\">https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunacon_cowboys.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunacon_cowboys.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/?powerpress_pinw=2-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/lunacon_cowboys.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"lunacon_cowboys.mp3\">Download<\/a> (15.7MB)<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Introduction by N.E. Lilly (0:00)<\/li>\n<li>Keith R.A. DeCandido (0:25)<\/li>\n<li>Marvin Kaye (0:52)<\/li>\n<li>Ernest Lilley (3:15)<\/li>\n<li>What is a Cowboy, anyway? (4:26)<\/li>\n<li>Mixing genres is fun (11:15)<\/li>\n<li>Stock characters (15:37)<\/li>\n<li>Why are Space Westerns made? (17:11)<\/li>\n<li>Necessary Space Western elements (20:51)<\/li>\n<li>The conflict of morality (24:15)<\/li>\n<li>Railing against slavery (27:00)<\/li>\n<li>Space Westerns other than <em>Star Trek<\/em> and <em>Firefly<\/em> (29:20)<\/li>\n<li>Space Western stories and novels (33:07)<\/li>\n<li>Remade in the Space Western Image (38:52)<\/li>\n<li>Does the Western in Space have a future? (44:11)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Space Cowboys<\/em> panel, held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunacon.org\/\">Lunacon 50<\/a>, covered the range of sources from knights-errant to Samurai Films, with Keith R.A. DeCandido, Marvin Kaye, and Ernest Lilley participating. &mdash; <em>ed. N.E. Lilly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[29,28,30],"media":[301],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spacewesterns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}