Weird West Tales (6 books in series)
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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...
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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: 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 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: 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: 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...