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Buck Johnson is my new hero on the planet Terul!

Revisado: 06-19-14

Space Westerns have been a favorite of mine for a long long time. Search google and there are not many results. I loved the show Firefly which only ran one season because again why the fans of this genre are dedicated, there just are not a lot of us.

McLaren does a superb job of taking the rodeo/ranch hand cowboy and placing him in a setting identical to so many ranches. The "ranch" just happens to be the planet Terul. Terul has 2 suns and a native class of people that are reptilian and speak with lots of sss at the end of their words. I'll finish my review by borrowing from another review written about this short story in the form of a poem which I thought pretty unique idea.

This Buck Johnson feller who I read about
Is a heck of a cowboy and pretty darn stout.
Got hired by Karposh - this reptilian feller
On the planet Terul...boy this is gettin' interstellar!
On the planet Terul there's not a horse nor a cow
And a deplorable lack of tobacco, coffee, and good cowboy chow.
The main cowboy work on said chunk of rock
Is bustin' out dragons - the Terrullians' preferred stock.
Now Kaposh had built himself a mighty big spread
But when Buck found out...Wow - he was ready to pump some lead!
Well, a spoiler this reviewer does not want to be
But when Buck rights an injustice, it's something to see.
And Buck isn't alone on this adventure in space
His earthly sidekicks Snort Jones and Skeet Evans
Were there to help him keep pace.
Now I'm anxious to see what lies up the road
For these cowboys in space and the dragons they've lassoed.



And that pretty much sums up this first of five that Mclaren has written.

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