Tag Archives: Dandelion Iron

Bookshelf: Relic

I love alt-Westerns. David J. West’s COLD SLITHER is an example, a collection of pulp fiction in the vein of Manly Wade Wellman, featuring real-life mountain man and gunfighter Orrin Porter Rockwell. Another favorite is Aaron Michael Ritchey’s Juniper Wars … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: Long Live the Suicide King

Mostly I put speculative fiction on the Bookshelf here, because that’s what I myself read (mostly) and write (again, mostly). Long Live the Suicide King is not spec fic. It’s quirky, dark, funny, touching, and ultimately redemptive storytelling about middle-class … Continue reading

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Bookshelf: Dandelion Iron

YA literature has been exploding in recent years, but in all its eccentric fecundity, it’s never seen this before: post-apocalyptic all-girl cattle drive. In 2058, the Juniper—that part of North America that used to be Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, … Continue reading

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