#MIKE RESNICK WEIRD WEST SERIES#

'With great relish Resnick subversively refurbishes this notorious collection of fact and embroidery. Jack McDevit, Nebula Award-winning author of Echo Left me wishing I could have shared a couple of whiskeys with Wyatt and Doc.' It's a modern-day Tall Tale with the requisite larger-than-life characters.' Told in a spare style reminiscent of a tale told 'round the campfire, The Buntline Special has a mythic feel. (Dec.)įrom the Publisher'A fast, fun, and often amusing tale where Wild West meets steampunk. The larger story of the feud is untouched, making Resnick's rendition feel like a copycat of Tombstone with gears glued on.

Corral, twisting it ever so slightly to blend magic and mechanism into its narrative weave. Five-time Hugo winner Resnick brings a sparse, dialogue-centric writing style to the classic story of the gunfight at the O.K. In this lusterless steampunk western, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are outfitted with superhard brass body armor and Gatling-style handguns Thomas Edison is a cyborg working with Ned Buntline on motorized stagecoaches and other wonders lawman Bat Masterson has vampiric tendencies gunslinger Johnny Ringo is a zombie bent on besting Holliday in a gunfight and Geronimo is a successful shaman and general making sure the United States stops at the Mississippi. Corral? Think again, as five time Hugo winner Mike Resnick takes on his first steampunk western tale, and the West will never be the same. Welcome to a West like you've never seen before. While not as strong as The Doctor and The Kid and The Doctor and The Rough Rider plot-wise, The Doctor and The Dinosaurs is a worthwhile read for fans of author Mike Resnick and the Weird West series.Synopsis of The Buntline Special: A Weird West Tale Edison and Buntline create only one really interesting weapon in this one and that weapon does not get used much, but it provides that necessary bit of advanced technology readers expect from the Weird West. Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable steampunk western and will probably please fans of either genre. Otherwise, one part of the ending makes no sense at all.

There is a major continuity error in the plot toward the end of the book, but I hope it will be corrected before the book is actually published. This review is based on an advanced reader copy. Resnick has an amazing talent for plunging these figures into his weird alternate history and yet keeping them true to their historic nature. In addition to the figures already mentioned, this one includes Edward Drinker Cole and Othniel Charles Marsh, the paleontologists, the shootist Cole Younger, and Buffalo Bill Cody. The story is amusing, particularly because of the characterization of, and the conversations between, the real historic characters that abound. To do so, he once again requires the help of his well-known friends Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Ned Buntline. Nevertheless, he sets off to stop two famous paleontologists who are disturbing Cheyenne sacred ground in Wyoming and causing the Cheyenne medicine men to bring dinosaurs back to life. Geronimo claims it is his illness that gives him his killing edge and only restores him to health enough to be able to function. Doc agrees but is disgruntled to discover that even though he is still alive, he is still very sick. Suddenly, the powerful Apache medicine man Geronimo appears and offers him one more year of life if he will perform one more task for him.

#MIKE RESNICK WEIRD WEST SERIES#

In the latest edition in the Weird West series featuring Doc Holliday and his famous friends, The Doctor and The Dinosaurs, it is April 1855 and Holliday lies dying in a sanitorium in Leadville, Colorado.

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