Book Giveaway: The Doctor and the Rough Rider

Many thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway contest for The Lazarus Machine! Sir Reginald has been pressed into service, and the winners will be announced in the next few days.

 

In the meantime, we move on to another new book! This week we’re featuring The Doctor and the Rough Riderby Mike Resnick.

 

 

 

Doc Holliday is dying of consumption and believes his gunfighting days are over. Medicine man Geronimo, however, says otherwise. He will open up the west to the white men, but will only broker with one man – Theodore Roosevelt. The other tribes don’t agree with Geronimo, unsurprisingly, and so the stage is set for a confrontation involving Roosevelt, Holliday, Thomas Edison, Ned Buntline, and the rest of the Weird West gang from Resnick’s series. Roosevelt is a great addition to the series, and the adventure careens along at breakneck speed.

 

We have an Advance Reader Copy and a brand new paperback edition of The Doctor and the Rough Rider to give away! To enter the contest, post a comment below and tell us what you would bring to a gunfight.A Winchester rifle? A raygun? Your keen intellect? Anything is possible! The deadline for entering the contest is Sunday, February 2nd. Good luck to everyone!

 

More information on The Doctor and the Rough Rideris available at Pyr.

More information on author Mike Resnick is available via his website and his Facebook page.

Comments

[Alden Ash]

I thought of a blaster ("Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side."), or a Tesla Gun from Warehouse 13, but the best thing to take to a gun fight with real, metal guns and bullets would be a Mistborn Allomaner from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series - as long as he/she was on my side!

[Alden Ash]

*Allomancer, not Allomaner :)

[Joshua S. Fields]

They tell you to never bring a knife to a gunfight. Not sure why that is. I'd take something like this and hedge my bets: http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/003/7/4/real_gunblade____by_selecthumor-d36dw4c.jpg

[Eldritch Monkey]

I'd bring someone who can actually win in a gun fight. Given my reflexes, or the lack there of, this would be the best use of my time and skill set.

[sarac]

I'd bring an invisibility cloak so the other guy has no idea where to shoot.

[Seanna]

I'd bring a ray gun that immobilizes them (freeze ray?), and then take all their guns away from them!

[Matt]

I'd bring a number of well-armed friends. I'm not above cheating in a gunfight!

[Gordon Steadwood]

A mark VII Delameter and some dureum armour!!!

[keith stewart]

A bulletproof vest.

[George LaVigne]

I'd bring a time traveling police box.

[Page Turner]

There’s a saying ‘round here that winter on the high plains is colder than a gravedigger’s toes on the Yukon. Well, I’ve never been panning gold up in the territory, but I can tell you that when the north wind roars down the timber line, it’ll drive the stock into a scrum up against the corral and fill the bunkhouse to overflowing with cowhands blowing in from the cold. Nothing much to do when the snow flies here but work our leathers and flap our jaws, so I guess that’s why the chatter turned to the best weapon to tote to a gunfight.

Now, there’s some what held that a Colt Peacemaker or, better yet, a pair of same, is what you need to fill your hands when you‘re in the dill. Others argued in favor of the merits of a 12-guage double-barreled coach gun to even the odds when the wheels come off in a hurry. I tucked my lips behind my walrus mustache and just sat there reading the latest yellow-backed steam punk novel from back east until one of the boys called out, “Hey there, Lefty, get your nose out of that book and tell us you’d pack to a shoot-out!”

I looked up. “You ever seen my fast draw?“ As they all waited in breathless anticipation, I grinned and said, “Now, do you want to see it again?”

[lynette]

a rifle and a bulletproof vest :)