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)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Conan: City of the Dead
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Solomon Kane: The Hound of God
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Lowdown Road
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Talons of Deep Time
Solomon Kane: The Banquet of Souls: The Heroic Legends Series
The Heroic Legends Series - Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter (Savage Tales Short Fiction Book 7)
Conan: Terror from the Abyss: The Heroic Legends Series
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 Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Maltese Falcon
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 Mark of Zorro by Johnston McCulleyZorro by Isabel AllendeThe Complete Classic Adventures of Zorro by Alex TothZorro Unmasked by Sandra R. CurtisSun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely Lares
The Zorro Legend Through The Years
30 books — 12 voters
The Lost World by Arthur Conan DoyleShe by H. Rider HaggardLost Horizon by James HiltonDwellers in the Mirage by A. MerrittAt the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Classic Lost World Tales
42 books — 12 voters

A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsThe Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsAlmuric by Robert E. HowardThe Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice BurroughsThuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sword & Planet
127 books — 51 voters

Her Little Flowers by Shannon  MorganThe Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti BiswasA Penance for Crows by Shannon  MorganOut by Natsuo Kirino
Great Noir and Noirish Novels by Women
157 books — 84 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


Lizzy Dent
And this is Isabella's nonna's, made with the whole Moro orange from her grove--- pulped into the mix and no dusting, no glaze. Plain." "You mean perfect," says Isabella, scolding Luca. There was no doubting Isabella's would win. The pulp added something even softer and more luscious to the crumb. If the cake we had yesterday, warm from the oven, was divine, this was magic. "I told you," says Luca. "The orange." ...more
Lizzy Dent, Just One Taste

D.A. Madigan
Pulp is almost zen, very nearly pure stream of unconsciousness. Here´s a good guy. There´s a bad guy. They hit each other. Oh, the bad guy is unmasked and it´s the greedy banker who was trying to foreclose on the old Beesby place! Wow. Next story, please.
D.A. Madigan

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