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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Helen of Wyndhorn
The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Call Me a Cab
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Last Stop (The Diamond Knife #1)
Gun Honey, Vol. 2: Blood for Blood
The Heroic Legends Series - Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter (Savage Tales Short Fiction Book 7)
Conan: City of the Dead
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Conan: The Child
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
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)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
The Nightclerk by Stephen SchneckTwilight Candelabra by William J. CraddockThe Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership by Jim CarloughLogan's Run by William F. NolanNog by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Mmm Mmm Paperbacks
131 books — 8 voters
Her Little Flowers by Shannon  MorganThe Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti BiswasOut by Natsuo KirinoThe Guest by Lorraine Mace
Great Noir and Noirish Novels by Women
151 books — 80 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

Son of the Black Sword by Larry CorreiaStoryHack Action & Adventure, Issue 0 by David J. WestThune's Vision by Schuyler HernstromCirsova by P. AlexanderFor Steam And Country by Jon Del Arroz
Pulp Revolution
71 books — 28 voters
Theocracide by James WymoreAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Caves of Steel by Isaac AsimovLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Great Science Fiction Detective Stories
156 books — 77 voters


Vladimir Nabokov
She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.
Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be.
Don Hutchison, The Great Pulp Heroes

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