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Is Adept's Path a western or science fiction?

The author identifies a secondary-world fantasy western and questions a science-fiction backstory some readers have assumed.

Question

Is Adept's Path part of a western series?

Short answer

Stewart calls the series a fantasy western in a secondary world. He does not endorse the readers' assumption that its people arrived on spaceships.

Notes

Glynn Stewart identifies Adept's Path with a fantasy-western series set in a secondary world. Some readers are convinced the inhabitants arrived in spaceships, an assumption he says he does not understand. The cover's steam trains, bows and apparent wizards prompt Alex Clarke's reaction to its mixture of familiar genre elements. He has not yet read this series during the conversation and describes his usual preference for harder science fiction such as Peacekeepers of Sol.