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Should we bring younger readers into the Western genre
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19 Jan 2017, 8:15 pm

postpaleo wrote:
"fantasy-western"

There sure has, ever heard of Star Wars?


Stephen King's Dark Tower series is a western thrown into a dark fantasy/horror world.


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21 Jan 2017, 7:56 pm

Batz wrote:
Sorry about the comment of somebody being 50 and older reading westerns. It's just that when I go to my bookstore I see older people reading them. The younger people usually go into the fantasy/sci-fi, and graphic novels sections.

There are some young people who read westerns. Some, but not a lot. I got into it yesterday and already it's becoming one of my favorite genre.

Again, sorry about that comment. I just hope you didn't take it as offensive, for I wasn't trying to be. I was just making a point from my experiences in bookstores.


Nothing to be offended by. Thats an astute observation of the demographics of the various genres.

I am fifty plus myself and even I think of westerns as being somewhat old fashioned. Horse operas dominated the TV dial in my Fifties' and early Sixties childhood (like gunsmoke).But they gradually dwindled away in the late Sixties and Seventies with the rise of modern urban inner city police dramas. But you and your brother might be the harbinger of the genre making a comeback. Westerns never totally went away on the big screen.

On Sunday nights they play old radio dramas on a local radio station. It is fun to hear Gunsmoke (it was a radio show before it became the TV series starring James Arness) while driving at night (and shows from other old time radio genres like Dragnet too).



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22 Jan 2017, 5:31 am

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...NatP used d the phrase : horse opera : , which I was goiing to bring up when I fist intended to reply to this...Uuuuh , yesterday , IIRC ! :oops: :P I was going to reference the still-used phrase : space opera : (STAR WARS) and so forth) , which , as a phrase , grew out of : horse opera : , which was used back when there were tons of low-budget B Westerns cranked out by Hollywood every year , tho, the phrase horse opera apparently even originated before that , back when live stage Western shows (I,m not sure if that meant : Wild West Show : stunt shows , melodramatic Western stage plays , or both .) were big - in the 19th Century??
Anyway , the perception of: a Western in outer space , with rayguns and rocketships , : lead to the term space opera .
I certainly think it,s fine if you ourself , a younger person and interested in Westerns yourself , try to get more folks interested ! :) Why not ! :wink:


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09 Feb 2017, 6:04 am

I've got a collection of Western books and magazines that I want to get through this year. I've finished one, South of Rio Grande by Max Brand (AKA Frederick Faust) and it was surprisingly good.