"Brisco County: Brass Balls" by Shelby Bush (stbush@iglou.com). Brisco County is not a place; it's the name of a main character in a weekly television show that ran in America a few years ago. It was a pretty good show that didn't catch on, and it died after just one season. As he does with his other Porno TV stories, the author supplies further details about the show during a "commercial break." This story overlaps slightly with the author's recent "Maverick" and "Have Gun, Will Travel" stories. Finally, the story includes a science fiction element (the orb) from the "Brisco County" series. Although I was not familiar with this concept myself, it made perfect sense to me, and I thought the author used the orb very creatively in this story. Although this story appears to remain faithful to the original series, I think even people who have never seen that show can enjoy this one.

Brisco and Bowler are bounty hunters, experiencing adventures while they try to get their man in the western U.S. in the 1890's. This story follows the series pattern: a main storyline with numerous subplots. It diverges from the TV series in that some of the subplots include explicit sex. In addition, this story contains one sentence that must have been spoken many a time in the Wild West but has never appeared in any TV western: "I need to take a whiz."

I am not going to try to summarize the story any further here. I'll just point out that if you call this a sex story, the emphasis should be more on story than on sex. The sex, when it occurs, is very good, and it fits in nicely with the plot.