Speculative WestsWinner of the 2024 Thomas J. Lyon Book Award Looking across the cultural landscape of the twenty first century, its literature, film, television, comic books, and other media, we can see multiple examples of what Shelley S. Rees calls a changeling western, what others have called weird westerns, and what Michael K. Johnson refers to as speculative westernsthat is, hybrid western forms created by merging the western with one or more speculative genres