A frontier anthology of Western tales transplanted to the stars, edited by David Boop, featuring Thea Hutcheson's "Five Mules for Madam Calypso": maintenance tech Thalia Jaltner thought she'd left her old boss and his trail of destruction behind, until he turns up running her section on The Queen of the Stars, the galaxy's premier bordello ship, doctoring footage and gaslighting her all over again. When corporate fails her exactly like it did the first time, Thalia and a crew of unlikely allies decide that some monsters just can't be abided.
Read the reviews: Tangent Online and Publishers Weekly, which called out Thea's story.
Publishers Weekly on PublishersWeekly.com wrote:Anyone who has had to deal with a horrible boss will sympathize… (on "Five Mules for Madam Calypso")
“Five Mules for Madam Calypso” by Thea Hutcheson, meanwhile, will satisfy readers with an itch for gunfights and rough frontier justice—albeit in space.