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As Stephen King acknowledged in his “Dark Tower” series, the Western is American mythology, tales of settling the frontier with wagon trains, railways, saloons, cattle barons, outlaws, marshals, gunfighters, fallen women, and brutal and mystic natives. As a Canadian, we might want to add or substitute Mounties, “half-breed” Métis, and whiskey traders, as our own frontier history is quite different. (Think Rose Marie and Saskatchewan, or Sergeant Preston of the Mounted.)In Gunsmoke and Dragonfire...
(This review originally appeared at Mad Scientist Journal.)Gunsmoke and Dragonfire edited by Diane Morrison is an anthology of stories that mash up fantasy with westerns, resulting in a collection of 25 stories where the good guys don’t always ride white horses … but they might ride good dragons.Many of the stories in this anthology are reprints, including a classic Solomon Kane story from Robert E. Howard, “Rattle of Bones.” A few of the stories are novella length or longer, and many are set in...
Got this in hardcover and it is beautiful. The collections of stories are all good and a few are absolutely fantastic with Raiders of the Lost World and Glorious Madness being my favorites. Recommended to anyone who likes innovative short stories that blur the line between genres and writing styles.
I picked this book up because it's editor was one of my regional liaison people for the Nanowrimo event last year - to be perfectly honest, when I got it, I had tempered expectations - as I've said before, I'm not a huge fan of fantasy, and while I'm happy with the concept of cross-genre fantasy westerns and weird westerns and so forth, I don't generally go seeking these kinds of stories out on my own.But I figured hey, let's support a local writer, they're doing good things for the local writin...
As the editor, I am very proud to present this amazing anthology of stories of the West as you've never seen it before! I was floored by the caliber of the authors who submitted their work, and these stories are some of the very best. All credit to the authors! Bestsellers gave us some of their best quality, and the new authors were so good that I was stunned they weren't pros.We have fantasy westerns, weird western horror, sci-fi westerns, space westerns, historical fantasy westerns, time trave...
Fantasy is probably the most broadly encompassing genre in fiction because you can create so many unique stories in a limitless number of settings. Mix that with the Western genre, and you get a wonderful blend of stories. Diane Morrison’s Gunsmoke and Dragonfire anthology pulls together twenty-five of these stories into a single collection that just blows me away. The variety of stories presented, and the skill of the authors (from well-established authors to those just starting out), really st...
I wanted to like it but couldn't get into it. DNF.
Out on the trails of the Old West, there are hidden places. Shadows off the path, a mystery at the far end of the journey. In those dark spaces, the weird can be found. In those places, this anthology exists, spinning tales of fantasy and horror, out there where a six-shooter may not be enough to save you. There might be dinosaurs lurking there, or dragons - maybe the ghosts still walking the town they used to frequent. I loved the range of imagination on show here. There's Joachim Heijndermans'...
Cross-genre fans will find much to love in this collection!The Gunsmoke & Dragonfire stories fuse two unlikely elements in a juxtaposition after my own heart. I loved that both western and fantasy - genres that seemed destined to never meet - were successfully woven together again and again. Like the best bizarre speculative, we have characters naturally inhabiting surreal lands and circumstances. From stolen unicorns to an alt reality future Canada, I found these stories refreshingly unique.The...
