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I can only imagine the awful loneliness that overpowers some people living on the frontier. How much worse would it be when home is over 200 million miles away? — ed, N.E. Lilly

David B. Riley sends us The Two Devils for review, published by LBF Books in 2005, featuring the adventures of Miles O’Maley, his horse Paul, and the machinations of Satan and Ah Puch — ed. N.E. Lilly

After the American frontier closed, wild west shows traveled the world bringing the myth of the West to the rest of the world. Many ringmasters found themselves performing for unconventional audiences. This story first appeared in Science Fiction Trails (#1), edited by David B. Riley and published by Pirate Dog Press. — ed, N.E. Lilly

Why is it always horses? Billions of planets, and yet the major mode of transportation always seems to be split between a horse or some alien beastie that may as well be a horse. Kudos to Shauna Roberts for thinking outside the box. — ed, N.E. Lilly

Robert Collins brings us another story of Captain Ayers. This time the good Captain is prevailed upon to help settle a dispute between rivals factions on the colony world of Waconda. — ed, N.E. Lilly

Kenneth J. Newquist brings us a review of Jane Espenson’s unauthorized anthology of essays based on Joss Whedon’s Firefly ’verse. — ed, N.E. Lilly

In this tale, originally published in the March 1936 issue of Astounding Stories, Stanley G. Weinbaum gives us the three “R’s” of a good Space Western: Revenge, Redemption, and Romance. — ed, N.E. Lilly

Lawrence M. Schoen sends us a stand alone story from the Amazing Conroy universe, featuring Conroy’s friend the professional gambler known as Left-John Mocker. It first appeared in the December 2006 issue of nanobison — ed, N.E. Lilly

When speaking on the subject of Space Westerns, how can you avoid the subject of pioneers? In the early days, or so the story goes, Science Fiction was written mostly by men, and yet even from the early days of the pulps there was still a subtle (often unseen) feminine influence in the genre. — ed, N.E. Lilly

On the Mercurian frontier a small group of volunteers, prisoners from the previous war, struggle to make the world habitable to human life. But, there are those who want the planet for themselves. This story originally appeared in Comet magazine, July 1941 — ed, N.E. Lilly