Book #28 of 2024: Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian The Weird Western vibes of this adventure novel are delightful, presenting a version of the post-Civil War midwest that’s populated with demons, ghouls, and similar entities, all treated matter-of-factly as threats that an unwary traveler might encounter like any other. I’m less sold on the plot, …
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Book Review: American Hippo by Sarah Gailey
Book #238 of 2020: American Hippo by Sarah Gailey This volume collects two novellas that were previously published independently — but which I hadn’t read before — along with a pair of new short stories in the same setting. Together they present an alternate history of a nineteenth-century America populated by hippopotami, occupying roughly the …
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Book Review: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Book #99 of 2020: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey This novella sort of feels like it’s over before it’s even begun, but within those sparse pages is a fun snapshot of a post-apocalyptic world and a young lesbian running away to find her place in it. The story reads like a typical western, and …
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Book Review: Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
Book #46 of 2020: Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison I don’t read (or watch) a lot of westerns, but I’ve mostly enjoyed this tale of an orphaned rancher who restyles herself as a man to strike off across the frontier in search of her last surviving kin and ultimately falls in love with …
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Movie Review: Deadwood: The Movie (2019)
Movie #6 of 2019: Deadwood: The Movie (2019) Thirteen years after HBO’s prestige western series was canceled without a proper resolution to its three seasons of hardscrabble civilization-building, it’s finally back on our screens once more. And it’s an absolute triumph, carrying all of the profane poetry, rich humor, and unexpected grace notes that fans …
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