Cowboys & Aliens
by:
Joan D. Vinge (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781447202127 (1447202120)
Publish date: August 1st 2011
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Edition language: English
I haven't seen the film that goes with this novel, so didn't have any expectations about characters or events.Stands on its own as a good hybrid of sci-fi and Western.The characters start off as the typical Western tropes; silent and mysterious stranger with a past, cattle barons who think they run ...
You know, I was pleasantly surprised by this western/sci-fi/horror/action/adventure book! I have not seen the movie which spawned the book, but I do know that it didn't do particularly well at the box office. I didn't really have high hopes for this book, but I wanted something, well, different. ...
I can almost hear the pitch "Shane meets Fourth of July" and you wouldn't be far off if you approached it like that. Man with amnesia and initially no name rides into a town. On his arm is a strange metal device. The stranger finds out who he is and he's not sure he likes it. Add to it a strange...
I'm not sure why Vinge, a good writer, agreed to novelize this. It's an uphill slog. The history appears to be that there was a 1980's screenplay, which was turned into a graphic novel, and then again into a graphic novel, and then a screenplay and film (with multiple writers), and then a novelizati...
I see there is a book with the same title by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg (2006) and wonder if it is the same thing but this Vinge one is the one I have.Okay have the facts now - the Rosenberg is the graphic novel that the film is based on and this Vinge is the novelisation of the screenplay. Gets confu...
11 years ago
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