The Good, The Bad and The Slimy: A Sci-Fi Spaghetti Western

By E. M. Thomben

Some towns are built on stories. Rustbucket-9 is barely held together by duct tape, chili fumes, and a robot deputy who thinks sarcasm is a leadership skill.

Welcome to Rustbucket-9, a dusty outpost on the forgotten edge of the galaxy. Sheriff Zeke Starshot is just trying to keep the peace-if not for the town, then for himself. He's got a badge with more rust than respect, a malfunctioning robot sidekick named Duke-77, and a gambler named Luna Vega who can outwit most outlaws-unless she's busy starting a bar fight over a deck of loaded cards.

But when Slimebeard the Ooze, a sentient pile of criminal ambition and goo, oozes into town with an anti-grav drill and a crew of gelatinous misfits, Zeke's quiet corner of the Drift becomes the epicenter of something much, much bigger.

A bank heist? Sure.
A hostage situation? Definitely.
But beneath the chaos bubbles something more sinister.
- Entire stories are being erased.
- Heroes are recast. Histories rewritten.
- Truth itself is under siege.

Behind it all is a force known only as The Editor, wielding censorship like a weapon-and threatening to overwrite every story that matters. To stop it, Zeke and his crew must defy a galaxy that's forgotten how to listen and reignite the Flame Archive, a network of living memory that holds the last defense against total narrative collapse.

With backup from a chili-slinging cook, a sarcastic AI, and townsfolk who'd rather fight with pitchforks than give in to tyranny, Zeke must lead the most improbable of rebellions-armed not with blasters, but with truth.

In This Book You'll Find:
1. A robot deputy who reboots mid-standoff
2. A villain made entirely of slime (and surprisingly charismatic)
3. Space poker, vacuum mishaps, and memory-based metaphysics
4. Explosions, laughter, high-stakes narration, and heart
5. The unshakable power of stories that refuse to be erased

The Good, The Bad and The Slimy is a genre-bending, laugh-out-loud, fire-in-your-belly space western about found family, defiant truth, and the stories that shape us.

Because in a galaxy trying to forget... The only way to survive is to speak anyway. In the dusty town of Rustbucket-9, heroes don't wear capes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F4P5KQJ9
• ISBN13: 9798319177261
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"