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''[[Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future]]'' is a 1986 [[Science Fiction]] novel by [[Mike Resnick]]. Exactly how far in the future we are never told but far enough that the galaxy is dominated by the Race of Man with two rowdy frontier regions; the Outer and the Inner. Our story takes place on the Inner (coreward) edge of Human expansion. Santiago is a myth, a legend, an outlaw king with twenty million credits on his head. Bounty hunter Sebastian Nightingale Cain, who dislikes his name, his profession and his life (not necessarily in that order) decides to go for the biggest bounty in known space. Along the way he meets many colorful people and the end isn't at all what he'd intended.
An important character, though he never makes a personal appearance, is
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* [[Anti
▲* [[Anti Hero]]: Cain, definitely. A Type III or maybe even IV on the [[Sliding Scale of Anti Heroes|Sliding Scale]]
* [[Badass Preacher]]: Father William bounty hunts to support his work for the Lord.
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Cain (''don't'' call him 'Songbird'!); the Angel; Altair of Altair; Father William and many others.
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* [[Glamour Failure]]: Altair of Altair's unique method of killing fails on Cain.
* [[The Government]]: "the Democracy isn't truly evil, or even especially corrupt." But it isn't much fun to live under either.
* [[Humans Are
* [[The Ingenue]]: Moonripple, who somehow manages to remain innocent and sweet dispite a lifetime as a barmaid in the stews of a hundred worlds.
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: Virtue
* [[Legacy Immortality]]: You'll find out who.
* [[
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: Everybody knows you can't kill Santiago.
* [[No Transhumanism Allowed]]: The only true cyborg encountered badly wants to die.
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Cain killed an estimated five thousand people as a soldier of the Revolution.
* [[Sci
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Santiago himself and, thanks to Black Orpheus, quite a number of other characters.
* [[Space Western]]: Most of the planets are agrarian with shanty-style 'trade towns' and what with the bounty hunters, gamblers and whores the Inner Frontier looks a whole lot like the Old West.
* [[The Stoic]]: Cain but to an even greater extent the Angel who edges into psychopath territory but doesn't quite make it because
* [[What Measure Is a Non
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