There is something intriguing about the prospect of throwing two different temperaments together and watching the sparks fly. Especially when one party is a rigorously meticulous death-dealer, and the other is a happy-go-lucky life-giver.
In Deuces Wild: Beginners' Luck, we get to see the beginning of a classic, literary friendship. Two diametrically opposed personalities work together to forge their uneasy bond, thrown together by cruelty, circumstance, and sealed by something as old-school as "honor."
Author L. S. King gives us a series which combines the best Western vibe of Butch and Sundance with the space-faring vigor of Joss Whedon's Firefly. This is a new series whose elements feel familiar, but whose treatment is entirely fresh.
Johne Cook
Editor, Ray Gun Revival magazine
Reviews
Book One: Beginners' Luck -
the first three chapters
This book first appeared as a serialized novel in Ray Gun Revival. Back issues are available in the Vault, found in RGR's forum.
Many thanks to James King for his invaluable help in creating the ships and weapons Slap and Tristan have been up against throughout all of the Deuces Wild stories.
Special thanks to physicist Jonathan Crofts for his patience as he attempts to keep me from breaking too many physics rule outright.
These two men are my heroes.
Anything technically or scientifically Not Right in my stories is due to my own fallibility and misunderstanding.
I would like to add an additional thanks to Johne Cook, editor at Ray Gun Revival for coerc—for, ah, convincing me I could do a serialized novel for the zine, and to Shannon McNear, my writing buddy, who has always been there for me.
And last, but definitely not least, thanks to E.J. Mickels II for the fantastic cover art!
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