The first “Space Western” album that I was introduced to was Sundown on Venus by the Jet Black Berries. Sundown on Venus, a Jet Black Berries retrospective by Eric Reanimator was the first non-fiction article by an outside writer that was published on SpaceWesterns.com.
Doug Goodman provided us with Ice Dwarves. It was the second original story the was run on SpaceWesterns.com. How can you beat a story about farm-raised genetically engineered beasties on Pluto?
The first interview appearing on SpaceWesterns.com was an Interview with Keith DeCandido, author of the Serenity novelization, Star Craft: Ghost: Nova, and Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War, among other stories.
Ben Jonjak holds the special place on SpaceWesterns.com. His story, Threshold, is the first original piece of fiction that we published.
In March of 2007, before the ’zine had even launched, I attended Lunacon 50. While there, I was on the Space Cowboys panel with Ernest Lilley, Marvin Kaye, and Keith R.A. DeCandido. On April 7th, 2007, this feature became the first audio file published on SpaceWesterns.com, and distributed through our podCast channel.
On April 1st, 2007 this ’zine launched with the story: Bat Durston, Space Marshal by G. Richard Bozarth. It was originally published in Asimov’s Magazine of Science Fiction under the editorship of George Scithers.