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High Noon on Proxima B


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), John E. Stith (Naught for Hire), and Peter J. Wacks (Caller of Lightning).

Ten tales of the West . . . not as it was, but as it might be!

Cover Art by Dominic Harman



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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, February 2023

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-9821-9242-6
eISBN: 978-1-62579-900-5

Copyright © 2023 by David Boop

Additional Copyright Information:
Foreword copyright © 2023 by David Boop; “Justice and Prosperity” copyright © 2023 by Milton Davis; “Five Mules for Mad-ame Calypso” copyright © 2023 by Thea Hutcheson; “Past Sins” copyright © 2023 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore; “The Last Round” copyright © 2023 by Susan R. Matthews; “High Noon on Proxima Centauri b” copyright © 2023 by Cliff Winnig; “Black Box” copyright © 2023 by Peter J. Wacks; “The Planet and the Pig” copyright © 2023 by Brenda Cooper; “Harley Takes a Wife” copyright © 2023 by Ken Scholes; “Warlock Rules” copyright © 2023 by Hank Schwaeble; “West. World.” copyright © 2023 by Walter Jon Williams

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