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
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The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Conan: The Shadow of Vengeance
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: The Amulet of Nakamar
El Borak: The Siege of Lamakan
Conan: The Child
Conan: Lord of the Mount
Gun Honey, Vol. 2: Blood for Blood
Call Me a Cab
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
The Man of Bronze (Doc Savage #1)
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
The Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettFarewell, My Lovely by Raymond ChandlerA CLUE LEFT HANGING by C.K. PhillipsThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Best Crime Pulps
162 books — 38 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyStar Maker by Olaf StapledonFoundation by Isaac AsimovAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Best Classic SF Novels (1930-1950)
64 books — 92 voters

Indiana Jones Omnibus, Vol. 1 by William Messner-LoebsRaiders of the Lost Ark by Walter SimonsonIndiana Jones und die gefiederte Schlange by Wolfgang HohlbeinRaiders of the Lost Ark #1 by Marvel ComicsIndiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark by Campbell Black
Best of Indiana Jones
40 books — 3 voters
We Got Zombies on the Lawn Again, Ma by Donnie  SmithDeath by Zamboni by David David KatzmanGrundish and Askew by Lance CarbuncleA Coupla Shades of Taupe by Court BurbackAlexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes by Alexei Maxim Russell
Books That Make You Vomit With Joy!
131 books — 136 voters


Walter B. Gibson
By living, thinking, even dreaming the story in one continuous process, ideas came faster and faster. Sometimes the typewriter keys would fly so fast that I wondered if my fingers could keep up with them. And at the finish of the story I often had to take a few days off as my fingertips were too sore to begin work on the next book.
Walter B Gibson

Alan Moore
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 ...more
Alan Moore, Watchmen

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