This is the least SFF book I have on the list because there’s no magic or paranormal creatures or anything, but there are hippos, and that counts for something. *If you’re considering buying any of these books from Amazon US, I’d appreciate it if you use my links! It will help support this blog at no additional cost to you!* So here are ten sci-fi/fantasy/paranormal books that are set in the Old West and that I recommend if you want to get your Weird West on! To be fair, I did kick ass at those arcade shooting gallery games (I once got a score so high, the little electronic score-keeping thing had to start over from zero because it didn’t have space for all the digits), and I loved horseback riding even though I’ve only gotten to do that a few times, mostly at touristy places where you just ride along a trail.īut alas, I never did become a cowgirl (or a mermaid, for that matter), so I have to fulfill my dreams by reading about them instead. That was the entire extent of my knowledge on cowgirls-horseback riding and lassos. I don’t even know why I wanted to be a cowgirl, but I would run around the house pretending I was riding a horse and lassoing things. Have more tales of the weird and wild west? Tell us about them in the comments.Fun Fact: When I was a little kid, there were two things I wanted to be-a mermaid, and a cowgirl. There is a respectful mix of Native American myth, alchemy and hard science (Petra has a day job as a geologist) in these page-turners. Along with her coyote companion Sig and her formerly immortal partner Gabe, Petra keeps things in her corner of modern-day Wyoming from getting too unnaturally chaotic. The Wildlands novels are written by Laura Bickle feature an alchemist's daughter, Petra Dee. Another thought-provoking read, this one with a touch of steampunk and Mormon cosmology, explores morality, and not just when an angel and Satan roll into town to debate the plan of the Almighty.
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Undead sheriff Jon Highfather and his half-coyote deputy have their hands full keeping the peace among the various inhabitants and the odd (and often malevolent) strangers that come to town are usually no help.
Belcher writes the Golgotha series, named for the peculiar town that wishes it was only famous for its silver mine.
While not as fast-paced as the previous books mentioned, there is contemplation of the nature of good and evil in these descriptive, atmospheric tales. Becoming his Left Hand, Isobel travels the area with her mentor Gabriel and meets out justice. Isobel is a native of The Territory, a vast swath of North America under the control of a powerful supernatural being most call the Devil. Both gritty and thoughtful, there's good world-building going on here.ĭarker and more creepy are The Devil's West novels by Laura Anne Gilman. Finding her calling, Rhett becomes a Ranger, and works to protect supernatural critters, many out of Indigenous myth. Not your garden-variety western protagonist, she sees beings others cannot and is two-natured, which means, among other things, that she can change into a bird at will. Nettie Lonesome, later known as Rhett, is the unwilling hero of Lila Bowen's Shadow novels.
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If, once finishing Harris' book, you're hungry for more of the weird west, I have some recent series for you. If you like westerns, fantasy, and/or Charlaine Harris, this is definitely a title to pick up. Still, a job is a job and Lizbeth does her best to ensure the safety of the prickly pair, who seem to have half the Holy Russian Empire looking for them, with ill intent. Lizbeth doesn't like wizards, though she has some ability herself, and with good reason. She's hired by two Russian wizards headed for Ciudad Juárez to find a person with very special, magical blood. Lizbeth Rose is young, but she's already a "gunnie," a pistolero who will guard traveling people and cargo for a price. Set in an alternate reality where FDR was assassinated and the Romanovs escaped the Bolsheviks, this rip-roaring western is full of violence and magic. Charlaine Harris has an almost preternatural ability to build a cosmos, and she's done it again with her latest book, the start of a new series: An Easy Death.
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