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Big in the West: <i>Cowboy Bebop</i> and the Curious Legacy of Space Western Anime 

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Image from the anime series Cowboy Bebop: Spike Speigel stands at a circular window, looking out at the sky
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Anime Spotlight

Big in the West: Cowboy Bebop and the Curious Legacy of Space Western Anime 

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Illustration of Vash and Wolfwood in a panel from the Trigun Maximum manga
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storytelling

A Blank Ticket: How Trigun Taught Me the Importance of Storytelling and Love

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From the Australian superhero TV show Cleverman
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Space Western

The Costs of Colonization: Cleverman as an Anti-Western

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Screenshot from Stingray Sam
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Stingray Sam Delivers the Weirdest, Best Space Western Ever

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Outland starring Sean Connery
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Outland (1981) vs. High Noon (1952): Quick Draw Duel!

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Battle Beyond the Stars
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Roger Corman’s Battle Beyond the Stars: Genocide and the Space Western

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Yul Brynner in Westworld (1973)
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How the West Was Won (By Science Fiction): Michael Crichton’s Westworld

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Tatooine at sunset in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
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A Long Time Ago, on a Ranch Far, Far Away: Star Wars as a Space Western

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Star Trek "Spectre of the Gun"
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Cowboys With Phasers: Star Trek’s “Spectre of the Gun” and the Genre of Space Western

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“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

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