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>recommend me some great westerns books, please

So I'm writing a novel about Mars as a new frontier (figure a little bit of Total Recall meets the western genre and a bit of Mad Max). I've read plenty of books in the sci-fi genre... but I need some recommendations for books set in the western genre (although Alaska, old Canada and Australia is also cool for some variety).

>> No.9620379

>>9620368

Leiji Matsumoto kind of does something similar in his Leijiverse but it's anime from the 80s, no idea if you'd be into that. Lots of space pirates and space cowboys though.

I recommend Warlock and Dark tower.

>> No.9620382

space cowboys on mars sounds pretty awesome op, you could write a cool story with that

for westerns, mccarthy is god-tier

>> No.9620401

>>9620379
>anime
Not my cup of tea but I'm willing to check it out for inspiration.

>>9620382
>space cowboys on Mars sounds pretty awesome
Thanks, I came to the conclusion that there are no more frontiers left on earth for brave men when I read old journals of men bored with the modern world at the time and moved out west for adventure, money and crime. Maybe all 3.

>> No.9620408

>>9620382
>mccarthy on mars
holy FUCK

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>>9620401

This is campy as fuck but it's basically Western Dude In Space. It might be more interesting if your protagonist wasn't so strait-laced but was more Little Caesar or Walter White or whatever. I don't know tho, I'm not a writer.

>>9620408
i'd read it

>> No.9620438

Definitely not Blood Meridian

>> No.9620504

>>9620438
came here to post Blood Meridian, OP should definitely take notes from it

>> No.9620521

>>9620438
>>9620504
Also came here to post Blood Meridian. Lonesome Dove by McMurtry is also a great canidate, the series itself is great too.