Books by Mike Resnick
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review 1: Interesting concept: Steampunk meets Old West. I'd previously read Resnick's Santiago, and this has a very similar feel to it, except this story lacks the space-travel, and includes magic and is set in an alternate past. Robotic prostitutes, vampires, giant were-bats, native Am...
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review 1: If you like your western history straightforward and factual than this book is definitely not for you. But, if you are willing to suspend your beliefs and let your imagination take a rocketing stage coach ride, then this book is for you. No vampire Bat Masterson this time, but th...
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review 1: This is one of my favorite SFF novella's, in no small part because of the perspective it takes. I first read it in high school, and the story has stuck with me. The basic premise, a group of scientists from various disciples examining artifacts at a dig site, trying to study an a...
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review 1: I randomly picked up this book while browsing through the just returned items. Surprisingly, although I usually can't bare to read anything that's so out there, I loved every bit of this story. It's funny and ridiculous and so imaginative. I believe it's Mike Resnick's character ...
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review 1: Like its predessor, The Buntline Special, this sequel is a Steampunk Western, featuring Doc Holliday, Tom Edison, Ned Buntline, and many "new" characters to continue the story. There are more shoot outs, more killings, more Indian magic, more devices; all fun, lightweight reading...
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review 1: I heard great things about this novella--it won awards in the science fiction community, for example--so I was on the lookout for a copy of it when I was at the World Science Fiction convention, held in my hometown this year.It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy...
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review 1: This entry in the alternate history of Doc Holliday demonstrates that a good idea does not a good novel make. Sorry, Mr. Resnick, I respect a great deal of your work but this one just goes on a slow slide from poorly written to badly written.First, the only characters that are c...
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review 1: Book 3 of the Weird West Tales.Doc Holliday is expecting to die of consumption in a sanitarium, but while he's ready to wait for the end, the world isn't done asking things of him yet. The medicine man Geronimo, one of the powerful people keeping the the United States in check. B...