Most Read This Week In Pulp
Pulp fiction can be characterized as "fast-paced, plot-oriented storytelling of a linear nature with clearly defined, larger than life protagonists and antagonists, creative descriptions, clever use of turns of phrase and other aspects of writing that add to the intensity and pacing of the story."
The earliest pulp stories were printed in pulp magazines from 1896 through the 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". Pulp were most often priced at ten cents per mag ...more
The earliest pulp stories were printed in pulp magazines from 1896 through the 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". Pulp were most often priced at ten cents per mag ...more
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In Hamilton's The Universe Wreckers... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from
The Drums of Tapajos
that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from
The Black Star Passes
and other stories by John W. Campbell that I first heard of relativity.
The pleasure of reading about such things in the dramatic and fascinating form of science fiction gave me a push toward science that was irresist
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― Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s
― Before the Golden Age: A Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s
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When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good became too wide and depressing to tolerate, I'd turn to my other great love, which was pulp adventure fiction. Despite the fact that [he] would have had nothing but scorn and loathing for all of those violent and garish magazines, there was a sort of prevailing morality in them that I'm sure he would have responded to. The world of Doc Savage and The Shadow was one of absolute values, wh
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― Watchmen
― Watchmen
This group is dedicated to the paperback novels written by Gardner F Fox. Read chapter One of hi…more
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Dinosaurs lurking on remote islands. Sparkling astronauts. Evil wizards and the vast armies they…more
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A book club dedicated to reading cheap/free pulp stories and novels. Each month we'll do a trio …more
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Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the…more
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