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The Doctor and the Kid by Mike Resnick

The Doctor and the Kid

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Mike Resnick

Pyr · Ebook · December 20, 2011

Welcome to a West like you've never seen before!

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Who it’s for
Classic Western names take an off-kilter steampunk turn, with Doc Holliday chasing quick money.
Genres
Steampunk, Westerns, Alternate History
Published
Pyr, December 20, 2011

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About this book

Welcome to a West like you've never seen before! With the O. K. Corral and the battle with the thing that used to be Johnny Ringo behind him, the consumptive Doc Holliday makes his way to Deadwood, Colorado. But when a gambling loss drains his bankroll, Doc aims for quick cash as a bounty hunter. The biggest reward? Young, 20-year-old desperado known as Billy the Kid. With a steampunk twist on these classic characters, nothing can be as simple as it seems.

Frontier, Rewired

Classic Western names take an off-kilter steampunk turn, with Doc Holliday chasing quick money.

Come here for

  • A steampunk turn on familiar Western figures
  • Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, and bounty-hunting trouble

Expect

  • A clash of frontier legend and speculative invention
  • A bounty hunt complicated by the promise that nothing is simple

Where it sits

Westerns87%
Alternate History80%
Steampunk72%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Historical Fiction
  • Steampunk
  • Westerns
Authors
Mike Resnick
Publisher
Pyr
Published
December 20, 2011
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Historical Fiction