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HFY?
“How Fucking Yellow”?
literally the dark tower
Blaine is a pain and that’s the truth.
The dark tower series is my favorite post-apocalyptic fantasy sci-fi western series.
I’ve been running a tabletop campaign for Scum & Villainy which is very much in the Space Opera/Western category. It’s been a really fun and evocative setting to game in.
Ah, yes. The Spike Spiegel wing.
Edit: Where are my manners? Let’s throw Vash the Stampede in there too. Not enough love for Trigun these days.
Let’s throw Vash the Stampede in there too.
The humanoid typhoon?! The six million double dollar man?!
I kid. You’re absolutely right.
“Love and peace!”
Light Music.
A futuristic self-aware city which stores data in its very structure is attacked by terrorists. In an act of self preservation, after a section is cut off with no redundant backup, the city downloads a couple library categories into the brain of an unwitting resident. His whole identity is replaced by the entire human category of Wild West movies, comics and books, along with some scientific data on radio communications. His memory erased, his entire personality is now Radio Cowboy.
Firefly?
Firefly.
You’re gorram right.
Best inspirational, sci-fi, western in the 'verse!
I tapped in to type this. As most here have.
Yes and Cowboy bebop and Samurai 7 (not a western but a scifi period piece I guess.)
Galaxy Rangers or Saber Rider come to mind, when I think about a setting like this. But both are nearly 40 years old now and were a bit obscure even back then.
Muse’s Knights of Sidonia is what springs to mind
Cowboys vs. Aliens was great, I don’t care if anyone disagrees.
Its okay to be wrong sometimes
Hmm…
Dune? Nope
Westwood: Double Nope
Cowboy Bebop: Not even close
Dark Tower: negative inspiration actually
I’m sensing a pattern here. Sand + sci-fi equals a lithium prescription.
Firefly!
This is the only correct answer
There it is.
are you kidding? westworld ABSOLUTELY fits!
I was inspired by cowboy bebop and dune! not to, you know, become the chosen one or a space bounty hunter, but, like, you know, in other ways.
Mistborn books 4-6 (Wax and Wayne series)
Although I definitely recommend Mistborn 1-3 first. Which are awesome in their own right.
Recommend? I’d think you’d be pretty damn lost if you just started there.
Yeah. Start with mistborn 1. But know there’s some awesome stuff that is coming along the lines of what the post mentioned.
Sci-fi isn’t until Era 3 at least
True. The groundwork for it is set in era2. But there is some steampunk-esq leanings in that direction at the end of Era2.
But serious to anybody reading this… mistborn is fantastic and the change to a new era is also fantastic.
Mistborn era 1: Epic Fantasy with metals based magic system.
One of the examples is people with certain abilities can “push” or “pull” on metallic objects like coins and leap, fly or fight with it.
Mistborn era 2: Epic fantasy magic in the age of firearms and steam engines with metals based magic system.
Same as above… but now somebody can fire a bullet into the ground of a small gulch and use the metal of the bullet to push off of allowing them to “leap” that gulch. Or another person can deflect bullets fired at them, etc etc.
Not if you listen to the Jet Black Berries.
1st album, Sundown on Venus
Most scifi westerns are also neo-noir(since many of the good western revivals they were cribbing off were noir-westerns in the first place) and being inspirational is the opposite of noir.
Trigun?
Its probably been 15 years since I’ve consumed any of the Trigun story, but from what I remember it was a story set in a dystopian future where local strongmen and warlords battled for control over a desert wastelands while the most altruistic person was targeted by society with the largest bounty on his head in history. Meanwhile the local populace is barely scraping by as they are set upon by both man and nature just trying to survive. So, Western, yes. Sci-fi, (careful of spoilers) yes. Inspirational?
One could argue that Vash the Stampede perseveres despite all the hardships he’s had to endure and kept a cheerful demeanor through it all. He acknowledged the harm he’s done but is also willing to atone for it as much as he can. For readers who’ve done bad things in life but want to make up for it, that seems inspirational.
The difference between cynical grimdark misery porn and an inspiring epic can come down to a single character with a conscience.
And let’s not forget “you need to confess!” Wolfwood’s story arc as a mild mannered traveling preacher carrying a cross that’s heavy because it’s full of forgiveness.
Sarcasm is hard to read in text, but I absolutely agree, but I’m being vague to try not to spoil anything beyond the first couple episodes.
Star Wars?
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.
PeAk iNsPiRaTiOnAl
The real reason for his dislike of sand. Good read, but it CONTAINS SPOILERS.
Ohmygod, that changes everything wow, I would never expect such an unforeseeable twist, this elevates the writing to Shakespearean levels, Anakin is the new Hamlet, thank you for this inspiration.
Cowboy bebop
