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)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Lowdown Road
Conan: The Halls of Immortal Darkness: The Heroic Legends Series
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Gun Honey, Vol. 2: Blood for Blood
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Talons of Deep Time
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Call Me a Cab
Last Stop (The Diamond Knife #1)
Master of Mystery: The Rise of the Shadow
Conan: Lord of the Mount
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)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
Critical Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” by Emre GurgenThe Nightclerk by Stephen SchneckTwilight Candelabra by William J. CraddockThe Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership by Jim CarloughLogan's Run by William F. Nolan
Mmm Mmm Paperbacks
133 books — 13 voters
Mark Waid's The Green Hornet, Volume 1 by Mark WaidBatman '66 Meets the Green Hornet by Kevin  SmithThe Shadow / Green Hornet Volume 1 Dark Nights by Michael UslanGreen Hornet, Year One by Matt WagnerKato Origins by Jai Nitz
Green Hornet
54 books — 2 voters

Sinister Barrier by Eric Frank RussellThe Legion of Space by Jack WilliamsonPrelude to Space by Arthur C. ClarkeThe Amphibians - A Romance of 50,000 Years Hence by S. Fowler WrightThe World Below by S. Fowler Wright
Galaxy Science Fiction Novels
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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinCharlotte Gray by Sebastian FaulksA Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmThe Alice Network by Kate QuinnThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
If You Liked Agent Carter, Try...
193 books — 45 voters


China Miéville
Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap. ...more
China Miéville

Lavie Tidhar
Life isn't a pulp novel, Joe, and death isn't either. ...more
Lavie Tidhar, Osama

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