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The science fiction Western places science fiction elements within a traditional Western setting.<ref name="Broughton">{{Cite book |last=Broughton |first=Lee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hKnqDAAAQBAJ |title=Critical Perspectives on the Western: From A Fistful of Dollars to Django Unchained |date=2016-09-19 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-7243-9 |page=29 |language=en}}</ref> Early examples are [[serial film]]s such ''[[The Phantom Empire]]'' (1935) and ''[[Ghost Patrol]]'' (1936) which incorporated supernatural figures of [[science fiction]] fantasy into a [[Western (genre)|Western]] setting.<ref name="Broughton" /> An example of cross-over genre, the fantasy science fiction Western ''[[The Valley of Gwangi]]'' (1969) displayed cowboys fighting dinosaurs, a trend that took hold during the 1960s. [[John Jakes]]'s ''Six Gun Planet'' takes place on a future planet colonized by people consciously seeking to recreate the Old West (with cowboys riding robot horses...). The movie ''[[Westworld (film)|Westworld]]'' (1973) and its sequel ''[[Futureworld]]'' (1976), ''[[Back to the Future Part III]]'' (1990), ''[[Wild Wild West]]'' (1999), and ''[[Cowboys & Aliens]]'' (2011), and the television series [[Westworld (TV series)|''Westworld'']] (2016, based on the movie).
This subgenre also encompasses the [[post-apocalyptic Western]], an offshoot of the Western genre with themes of lawlessness and survival, and often include an alienated lone hero trying to make sense out of the chaos.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Green |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyu6CwAAQBAJ |title=Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games, 2d ed. |date=2016-02-25 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-6257-2 |page=1 |language=en}}</ref>{{Rp|page=2}} Examples include ''[[The Postman (film)|The Postman]]'', the ''[[Mad Max]]'' series, and [[The Rover (2014 film)|The Rover]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Selinger |first=Julia |date=2013-06-27 |title=A24 Acquires Futuristic Western ‘The Rover,’ Starring Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/a24-acquires-futuristic-western-the-rover-starring-guy-pearce-and-robert-pattinson-37245/
== Singing cowboy Western ==
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