Corral, but unfortunately the setup was so generic that it didn't give me much of a mystery to chew on in between. This leads to the infamous gunfight at the O.K. The Earps, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday are to protect Edison and his partner, Ned Buntline at all costs. Government wants to expand across the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, and they believe that Thomas Edison is their single best asset for overcoming the magic-wielding Native Americans. I was excited to see this Wild West dream team of gunfighters assembled, but the reason behind it was too vague to drum up any further enthusiasm. "I don't know which to do," she said at last, "nurse you or kick you in the balls." "I don't know what you expect me to do about it. "That's more blood than usual," she noted, staring at it. She brought him a handkerchief, and he handed it back to her a few minutes later when he was done. He was suddenly overcome by a paroxysm of coughing, and sat down again. The only exchanges with any spark occurred between Doc Holliday and his sometime lady-love, Big Nose Kate: Just a little bit of Mark Twain's voice would have given the whole story a flavor of authenticity. I kept trying to insert an accent, but it wouldn't stick. I wanted to hear the Old West come alive in the poetry and cadence of the language, but everyone's speech was far too contemporary for a historical setting. For instance, the dialog was disappointingly bland. I think it had the potential to be great, but there were too many misses along the way. The Buntline Special: A Weird West Tale succeeds with the steampunk, but it never cowboy'd up to the culture. This dream team will face not just the Clanton gang, but some fearsome medicine men, and a quick-draw corpse that used to be Johnny Ringo. Edison from all enemies, and they send for their friends, Doc Holliday and Bat Masterson. government charges the Earps - Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan - with protecting Mr. Served by horseless stagecoaches and illuminated by electric lights, this dusty town hosts the premiere inventors in the country, Thomas Edison and Ned Buntline. Plot Summary: The year is 1881, and Tombstone, Arizona is a town like no other. Seek out Ivory or Dragon America instead if you want a good Mike Resnick novel. He had some good ideas that could have been alot of fun but didn't quite seem to know what to do with them. Resnick's work but this book just felt completely lazy and phoned in. Don't be fooled by the book description and go in expecting an action novel because it's not. Other than that I found it to be an absolute sleeping pill. I'm only giving this 3 stars because the dialogue and characterisations are very well written. There's no exciting or engaging solutions to any problems in this book, they're just there and then they're not. I'm not even exaggerating, nothing happens except talk, talk, talk, solve the problem in a paragraph. Oh, Bat Masterson is, get this, turned into a bat! So there's plenty of dialogue about how to keep him caged up at night. They wake up, get breakfast, go visit a character, then back to the saloon. Characters go talk to another character for a page, then back to the saloon. The rest of the book consists of getting breakfast and chatting in saloons and a house. The ending? A 1 page cliffhanger that sets it up for a sequel. The climactic showdown that's been promised for the entire book? Half a page. However one thing kept me from enjoying the book.nothing happens.ĭon't get me wrong, things do happen but I hardly consider one sentence descriptions to be action scenes. I wanted to love this book because it sounded like a fun little steampunk western romp.
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