# A Sub-Genre: The Weird West--more titles, please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 1, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sub-genre-the-weird-west-more-titles-please/337956 "2006-01-01T14:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sub-genre-the-weird-west-more-titles-please/337956/21 "2006-01-02T00:03:19Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > If you like the New West as well as the Old West, Tim Powers’ “Last Call” is incredibly good. Hmm…the “New West” referenced in my OP is Futuristic, with robots & other high tech, oddly transposed with Western cultural values & the semi-anarchy of the Frontier. You may have been mislead. Sorry about that, **Evil Captor**. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sub-genre-the-weird-west-more-titles-please/337956/22 "2006-01-02T04:16:38Z")
The short story “Spud and Cochise” by Oliver LaFarge, 1957; reprinted in the 1980 anthology _The Best of All Possible Worlds_ (Spider Robinson, ed.) – [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0441054838/qid=1136175357/sr=8-1/ref=sr\_8\_xs\_ap\_i1\_xgl14/103-2231941-5334243?n=507846&s=books&v=glance](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0441054838/qid=1136175357/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-2231941-5334243?n=507846&s=books&v=glance). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sub-genre-the-weird-west-more-titles-please/337956/23 "2006-01-02T04:38:18Z")
Two of my recommendations have already been mentioned; Mark Sumner’s _Devil’s Tower_ and _Devil’s Engine_ and Oliver LaFarge’s _Spud and Cochise_ - all very good. And great news. I was going to recommend a old comic book series called _Tex Arcana_ by John Findley. I was going to tell you how great it was but then I was going to have to tell you it had been out of print for about twenty years. But I did a Google search and found that Findley now has the entire series posted online [here](http://www.texarcana.com/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sub-genre-the-weird-west-more-titles-please/337956.md?page=1)