Comments on: More Influential Space Westerns? https://www.spacewesterns.com/sideshow/more-influential-space-westerns/ The most pernicious suite of fiction on the Internet Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:38:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 By: N.E. Lilly https://www.spacewesterns.com/sideshow/more-influential-space-westerns/comment-page-1/#comment-276 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:16:32 +0000 https://www.spacewesterns.com/sideshow/?p=68#comment-276 In reply to Joshua Gage.

Which of the 10 do you think don’t qualify (and why)? What does it take for something to be considered a “true” Space Western? After reading several books of Western-genre criticism, I felt that if I could find the same themes in these science fiction works that are prevalent in Westerns, then they qualified. I just didn’t go by my own opinion either. For example, in his book The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel John G. Cawelti specifically cites Alien which, to be honest, isn’t a connection I would have made on my own. After re-watching it (with an eye towards Westerns) I saw that the primary conflict wasn’t actually between the crew and the alien (who was just a pawn) but between the crew (homesteaders/miners) and the corporation (industrialists), which is a classic Western conflict.

]]> By: Joshua Gage https://www.spacewesterns.com/sideshow/more-influential-space-westerns/comment-page-1/#comment-275 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:14:02 +0000 https://www.spacewesterns.com/sideshow/?p=68#comment-275 While some of these may be historically important, I’m not sure the content is enough to be considered truly a “space Western,” as opposed to something like the anime “Cowboy Bebop” or “Trigun,” or even cult hits like “Battle Beyond the Stars” or “The American Astronaut.”

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