When I was a kid, Westerns were still a big deal, not just in books, but in movies and television. In retrospect, it was quite strange how quickly they disappeared from the American landscape. That’s why I was really glad to see a new writer like Peter Grant continuing this tradition. Surprisingly, he’s not even […]
The Western genre, so popular in my youth, has fallen out of favor in recent years. It survives mainly in “shoot ’em up” video games like Red Dead Redemption. Yet it has a lasting influence on other genres, especially science fiction. Though despised by sci-fi purists, so-called space westerns have attracted legions of fans. When […]
