HighNoon on Proxima B is a brand new anthology from Baen Books. It is the companion volume to Gunfight on Europa Station. David Boop is the editor, 241 pages, trade paperback format, $18.00. Cover by Dominic Harman.

Contents:

Foreword (High Noon on Proxima B) • essay by David Boop

Justice and Prosperity • novelette by Milton J. Davis

Five Mules for Madame Calypso • short story by Thea Hutcheson

Past Sins • short story by Kevin Dilmore and Dayton Ward

The Last Round • short story by Susan R. Matthews

High Noon on Proxima Centauri b • short story by Cliff Winnig

Black Box • short story by Peter J. Wacks

The Planet and the Pig • short story by Brenda Cooper

Harley Takes a Wife • short story by Ken Scholes

Warlock Rules • novelette by Hank Schwaeble

West. World. • novelette by Walter Jon Williams

Description:

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 is 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!

High Noon on Proxima B continues the idea fo the space western. Milton Davis (I know that guy!) has the pulp trope of pirates of the asteroids new and updated. Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore’s “Past Sins” was a good shoot ’em up. The titular story “High Noon on Proxima Centauri B” by Cliff Winnig took Elmore Leonard’s “Three-Ten to Yuma” as its inspiration. By the way, pick up The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard. It is a killer collection. Hank Schwaeble’ “Warlock Rules” is a western style gunfight including a Colt revolver against an alien.

Lots of new techology such as AI and genetic modification in these stories. If you are looking to get an updated pulp space opera fix, check out High Noon on Proxima Centauri B.