This is not a fantasy novel. The title purports to refer to a local silver mine near the town of Warlock (in the Arizona territory) in the 1880s. This is an overtly fictionalized version of the Gunfight at the OK Corral/Wyatt Earp story told through a series of different narrative views, with as much fictionalization as needed for that story, and as much collapsing and challenging the notions of narrative and mythmaking along the way. If we’re being technical it’s not even about Wyatt Earp; […]