Título: High Noon on Proxima B
Autor: David Boop, Davis, Hutcheson, Ward, Dilmore
Sinopse: It’s always high noon on Proxima Centauri b. Original stories about the final frontier.
YOU TELL ’EM THE SPACE COWPOKES A’COMIN’ 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. It’s time again to get in your ramshackle rocket ship and journey to the universe’s western territories with this follow-up to Gunfight on Europa Station.
Meet the employees of a space bordello as they’re 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 you’ve loved before, but with a science fiction upgrade you’ll 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 (Changa’s 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!
About 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... It’ll give you a home where the aliens roam—and its immense fun for it." —Warped Factor
About 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
About 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
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “High Noon on Proxima B”, de David Boop, Davis, Hutcheson, Ward, Dilmore, publicado pela editora Baen, em 2023 e com 256 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Baen
Páginas: 256
Ano: 2023-02-07
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1982192429
ISBN13: 9781982192426
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Baen costumam transportar o leitor para universos onde o conflito militar e a aventura espacial são centrais, com narrativas que mesclam ação tensa e estratégias de guerra em cenários que vão de invasões alienígenas a batalhas interestelares. A experiência de leitura frequentemente envolve protagonistas enfrentando ameaças implacáveis, seja em combates corpo a corpo, seja em confrontos de frotas estelares, com ritmo acelerado e foco em decisões de sobrevivência e honra. O catálogo sugere ainda uma diversidade que contempla desde fantasia urbana com mistérios sobrenaturais até histórias de ficção científica histórica, com personagens que transitam entre mundos e tempos, oferecendo tanto tramas mais narrativas quanto outras com tom mais informativo ou político.
