Larry Eisenberg 13 min read

In an age when the Old West is decades dead, electronic genius Amos Handworthy builds a machine that lets a man once again stroll down Main Street for a showdown with the Marshal.

Larry Eisenberg's 1964 story is a wry AI-and-social-SF tale. Clever, fun golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story where an eccentric tycoon recreates the gunfighter's duel through technology, in a witty golden-age piece about nostalgia, machinery, and the enduring lure of the fastest draw in the West.

In its time

Published in 1964, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

13 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

George Schelling