Science Fiction Book Review

Hong on the Range

by William F. Wu
Reviewed date: 2025 Mar 16
Rating: 1
318 pages
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Science fiction cyber western
It's not exactly science fiction. It's a cyber western: a new old west, with robot horses, cyborg cattle, augmented humans, and the occasionally unlucky control-natural: prohibited by law from any specials or enhancements. It's not my sort of book. If this sort of humorous genre crossover is your thing, it's well-done.

The story reminds me of an Edgar Rice Burroughs book: various groups of characters traipsing around, crossing and recrossing paths. Of course with Edgar Rice Burroughs it's usually Tarzan, lost safaris, and bands of apes in jungles of Africa, and here it’s cybernetically enhanced humans, cyborg cattle, and robot horses wandering around a reborn Wild West.


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