About the Book Adventure! Danger! Revenge! And a mail-order robot gunslinger in a wedding dress? Only in the wildest parts of space could this happen. Its time again to get in your ramshackle rocket ship and journey to the universes western territories with this follow-up to Gunfight on Europa Station. Meet the employees of a space bordello as theyre drawn together to pull a con on a con. Or the crew filming a Western on a colony ship only to fight gravity and each other. Or a soldier on a backwater planet hiding from her past when it-and the military-finally tracks her down. Each voyage invokes the type of Western yarns youve loved before, but with a science fiction upgrade youll get to enjoy anew. Taking you on this ride is another set of astounding space opera authors such as Walter Jon Williams (Hardwired), Susan R. Matthews (Under Jurisdiction), Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore (Star Trek), Brenda Cooper (Project Earth), Milton Davis (Changas Safari), John E. Stith (Naught for Hire), and Peter J. Wacks (Caller of Lightning). Ten tales of the West... not as it was, but as it might be!-- Book Synopsis Its always high noon on Proxima Centauri b. Original stories about the final frontier. YOU TELL EM THE SPACE COWPOKES ACOMIN AND HELL IS COMIN WITH EM! Adventure! Danger! Revenge! And a mail-order robot gunslinger in a wedding dress? Only in the wildest parts of space could this happen. Its time again to get in your ramshackle rocket ship and journey to the universes western territories with this follow-up to Gunfight on Europa Station . Meet the employees of a space bordello as theyre drawn together to pull a con on a con. Or the crew filming a Western on a colony ship only to fight gravity and each other. Or a soldier on a backwater planet hiding from her past when it--and the military--finally tracks her down. Each voyage invokes the type of Western yarns youve loved before, but with a science fiction upgrade youll get to enjoy anew. Taking you on this ride are another set of astounding space opera authors such as Walter Jon Williams ( Hardwired ), Susan R. Matthews ( Under Jurisdiction ), Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore ( Star Trek ), Brenda Cooper ( Project Earth ), Milton Davis ( Changas Safari ), Hank Swchaeble ( Moonless Nocturne ), Peter J. Wacks ( Caller of Lightning ) and more! Ten tales of the West . . . not as it was , but as it might be ! Praise for Gunfight on Europa Station: An enjoyable selection of hard SF stories that consistently entertain, with several that are really rather good. -- Tangent Online Gunfight on Europa Station is another creative anthology from Baen Books, which has delivered many times before . . . Itll give you a home where the aliens roam--and its immense fun for it. -- Warped Factor Praise for Straight Outta Dodge City: A dark, diverting anthology of 14 original tales, the third in a series. . . . By tossing weird fiction concepts into western settings, these tales give rise to unusual what-ifs. . . . [T]he ever-enjoyable Joe R. Lansdale is on hand with The Hoodoo Man and the Midnight Train, an energetic tale of a mystical gunfighter, and Harry Turtledove presents the delightful Junior & Me, set in an alternate world in which evolution favored reptiles rather than mammals, and the ornery galoot narrating the yarn is actually a highly evolved dinosaur. The result is an amusing . . . bunch of stories. --Publishers Weekly Praise for Straight Outta Tombstone: The authors were having fun. Even when they are not playing the stories for laughs, they are taking an opportunity to . . . tell a story with a fresh twist, and expand out of their expected boundaries. -- The Galveston County Daily News About the Author David Boop is an award-winning author and editor specializing in weird Westerns.