One thing that falls to note when you are a few stories into Dead Man's Hand is the diversity of the featured stories. (I am going to spill some beans on the bold ones) As what I normally do when I review an anthology I pick a few stories that really caught my eye and that I thoroughly enjoyed, this doesn't mean that I didn't like the other ones its just that writing something about every story would turn this into a too lengthy review.

The stories that make up the Dead Man's Hand anthology are all original stories and the list is as follows :Īs you can see from the list above there are some well known and a bit lesser known authors (at least for me) that feature in Death Man's Hand. The story of the Dead Man's Hand anthology were picked out by John Joseph Adams, he is a critically acclaimed editor of many anthologies and various science fiction fantasy magazine, one of his anthologies The Living Dead was nominated for a World Fantasy Award! So the premise of diverse western stories and a renown editor this had to be one awesome read, and it sure as proved to be one! A lot of readers do shy away from anthologies but Dead Man's Hand is really, really one wild weird west ride. Westerns, be it steampunk influenced, classical or with a tinge of science fiction all do pique my interest so when I found out that Titan books was releasing not one but twenty three western stories, be it in a anthology I was more than stoked to get reading. I have come across a few books that do feature some great western stories, those of Joe Abercrombie, Mike Resnick and Guy Adams.

One sub genre that isn't the mainstream when it comes down to fantasy and science fiction is the western genre. Maker” story in a decade, and an original adventure by Fred Van Lente, Included are Orson Scott Card’s first “Alvin Of cards, or facing an alien on the streets of a dusty frontier town.Īre twenty-three original tales-stories of the Old West infused withĮlements of the fantastic-produced specifically for this volume by many Tale where the protagonist might be playing poker with a sorcerous deck From a kill-or-be-killed gunfight with a vampire to anĮncounter in a steampunk bordello, the weird western is a dark, gritty

Dead Man's Hand by John Joseph Adams