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Space Western, the Glossary

Space Western is a subgenre of science fiction that uses the themes and tropes of Westerns within science-fiction stories in an outer space setting.^[1]

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Space Westerns
Western (genre) films by genre
Western (genre) subgenres

Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Boba Fett

Boba Fett is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

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Borderlands is an action role-playing first-person looter shooter video game franchise in a space Western science fantasy setting, created and produced by Gearbox Software and published by 2K for multiple platforms.

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Borgo Press

The Borgo Press was a small publishing company founded by Robert Reginald in 1975 funded by the royalties gained from his first major reference work, Stella Nova: the contemporary science fiction authors (1970).

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BraveStarr

BraveStarr is an American Space Western animated series that aired 65 episodes from September 1987 to February 1988 in syndication.

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Buck Rogers

Buck Rogers is a science fiction adventure hero and feature comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan first appearing in daily U.S. newspapers on January 7, 1929, and subsequently appearing in Sunday newspapers, international newspapers, books and multiple media with adaptations including radio in 1932, a serial film, a television series, and other formats.

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C. L. Moore

Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore.

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The Comics Code Authority (CCA) was formed in 1954 by the Comics Magazine Association of America as an alternative to government regulation.

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Cowboy Bebop

is a Japanese neo-noir space Western anime television series which aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999.

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Deep space exploration

Deep-space exploration is the branch of astronomy, astronautics, and space technology that is involved with exploring the distant regions of outer space.

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Empire (magazine)

Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.

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Expanded universe

The term expanded universe, sometimes called an extended universe, is generally used to denote the "extension" of a media franchise (like a television program or a series of feature films) with other media, generally comics and original novels.

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Firefly (TV series)

Firefly is an American space Western drama television series, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label.

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Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon is the protagonist of a space adventure comic strip created and originally drawn by Alex Raymond.

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Galactic empire

Galactic empires are a science fiction setting trope, in which most or all of the habitable planets in the setting's galaxy are ruled by a single centralized political entity.

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Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published in Boston from 1950 to 1980.

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Gary Westfahl

Gary Wesley Westfahl (born May 7, 1951) is an American writer and scholar of science fiction.

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Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction franchise Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer.

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Genre

Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Gunfighter

Gunfighters, also called gunslingers or in the late 19th and early 20th century gunmen, were individuals in the American Old West who gained a reputation of being dangerous with a gun and participated in shootouts.

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Hack writer

Hack writer is a pejorative term for a writer who is paid to write low-quality, rushed articles or books "to order", often with a short deadline.

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Han Solo

Han Solo is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

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High Noon

High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper.

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Horror comics

Horror comics are comic books, graphic novels, black-and-white comics magazines, and manga focusing on horror fiction.

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Interstellar war

An interstellar war is a hypothetical space war between combatants from different planetary systems. Space Western and interstellar war are science fiction genres.

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John Ford

John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), known professionally as John Ford, was an American film director and producer.

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Man with No Name

The Man with No Name (Uomo senza nome) is the antihero character portrayed by Clint Eastwood in Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Italian Spaghetti Western films: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Military science fiction

Military science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction and military fiction that depicts the use of science fiction technology, including spaceships and weapons, for military purposes and usually principal characters who are members of a military organization, usually during a war; occurring sometimes in outer space or on a different planet or planets. Space Western and military science fiction are science fiction genres.

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Mos Eisley

Mos Eisley is a spaceport town in the fictional Star Wars universe.

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Northwest Smith

Northwest Smith is a fictional character, and the hero of a series of stories by science fiction writer C. L. Moore.

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Outland (film)

Outland is a 1981 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Peter Hyams and starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle and Frances Sternhagen.

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Outlaw Star

is a Japanese media mix primarily consisting of an anime television series produced by Sunrise (now a division of Bandai Namco Filmworks) and a corresponding ''seinen'' manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Itō.

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Peter Hyams

Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer known for directing 1977 conspiracy thriller film Capricorn One (which he also wrote), the 1981 science fiction-thriller Outland, the 1984 science fiction film 2010: The Year We Make Contact (a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), the 1986 action/comedy Running Scared, the comic book adaptation Timecop, the action film Sudden Death (both starring Jean-Claude Van Damme), and the horror films The Relic and End of Days.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.

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Raygun

A raygun is a science-fiction directed-energy weapon usually with destructive effect.

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Revisionist Western

The revisionist Western, also called the anti-Western, is a sub-genre of the Western film. Space Western and revisionist Western are Western (genre) films by genre and Western (genre) subgenres.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, commonly known as SFWA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.

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Science fiction Western

A science fiction Western is a subgenre or cross-genre that uses traditional Western plots and settings, while incorporating science fiction elements such as futuristic technology or aliens. Space Western and science fiction Western are science fiction genres and Western (genre) subgenres.

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Screen Rant

Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.

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Serenity (2005 film)

Serenity is a 2005 American space Western film written and directed by Joss Whedon in his feature directorial debut.

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Space opera

Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance. Space Western and space opera are science fiction genres.

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Space warfare in science fiction

Space warfare is a main theme and central setting of science fiction that can trace its roots back to classical times, and to the "future war" novels of the 19th century. Space Western and Space warfare in science fiction are science fiction genres.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon. Space Western and Star Wars are space Westerns.

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Star Wars has been expanded to media other than the original films.

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StarCraft

StarCraft is a military science fiction media franchise created by Chris Metzen and James Phinney and owned by Blizzard Entertainment.

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Strange Horizons

Strange Horizons is an online speculative fiction magazine.

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Superhero comics

Superhero comics is one of the most common genres of American comic books.

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Texas Ranger Division

The Texas Ranger Division, also known as the Texas Rangers and also known as, is an investigative law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in the U.S. state of Texas, based in the capital city Austin.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.

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The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers is an American animated space Western television series created by Robert Mandell and produced by Transcom Media, Inc.

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The Chronicles of Riddick (franchise)

The Chronicles of Riddick is an American science fiction space Western media franchise created by brothers Ken and Jim Wheat and later continued by writer-director David Twohy.

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Outer Worlds

The Outer Worlds is a 2019 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Private Division.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Week

The Week is a weekly news magazine with editions in the United Kingdom and United States.

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Trigun

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasuhiro Nightow.

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Turkey City Writer's Workshop

Turkey City Writer's Workshop is a peer-to-peer, professional science fiction writer's workshop in Texas.

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University Press of Kansas

The University Press of Kansas is a publisher located in Lawrence, Kansas.

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Wagon Train

Wagon Train is an American Western television series that aired for eight seasons, first on the NBC television network (1957–1962) and then on ABC (1962–1965).

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. Space Western and Western (genre) are film genres.

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Western comics

Western comics is a comics genre usually depicting the American Old West frontier (usually anywhere west of the Mississippi River) and typically set during the late nineteenth century.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Western

Also known as Sci-Fi Western.

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Space Western, the Glossary

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See also

Space Westerns

Western (genre) films by genre

Western (genre) subgenres

References