from ChrisWeir

Ugggh. Steampunk goes west, old time cowboys and steampunk inventions. Sounds great doesn't it. To bad the book never reached that potential. I almost put the book down when it had a young Thomas Edison with a mechanical arm in Tombstone. They then bring in Doc Holliday, the Earp brothers, Geroni...

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Sadly, this book was a pretty big disappointment to me. I kept going to the end because it was a quick read, but I really did not care about any of the characters or what happened to them. It just felt like a lot of talking, some brief bouts of gunplay, and some weird stuff thrown in as a twist. ...

from ragwaine

I've read at least a couple short stories, novellas and novels from Mr. Resnick. I've enjoyed most of them a lot. This was obviously supposed to be lite and fun, and it was, but it was very repetitious. I felt it could have been about 100 pages shorter and been much better. The ending scene was d...

from TheDavisChanger

"The Buntline Special" is weak. Coming off of Mieville's "Perdido Street Station" where I felt as if I could have skipped the setup of the first half of the book to get to the action, "Buntline" is a jarring reversal. There is practically no setting up or describing of anything. It is very much l...

from storeyonastory

Urban dictionary.com defines 'steampunk' as: A subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with s...