A techno-thriller series that I started reading a few years back is David Golemon‘s Event Group series. While Golemon has written other works, I’ve only...
The Grey Monk is a New Pulp hero, created by John L. French, set in modern times (we see cell phones, computers and DNA analysis). Wild Cat Books put out a collection of...
Recently Moonstone Books put out a great collection of Sherlock Holmes stories: “Sherlock Holmes: The Crossover Casebook.” As the title implies, all the...
Two good books that any pulp hero fan should have on their shelves is Don Hutchison‘s “The Great Pulp Heroes” (1996, 2007) and Nick Carr‘s...
Professor Stone is Wayne Skiver‘s take on a Doc Savage-like pulp hero. Not a pure pastiche, such as characters like Doc Atlas, Prof. Stone is more a mix of...
Diamondstone the Magician was a short-lived series (six stories) written by G.T. Fleming-Roberts and appeared in Thrilling’s pulp magazines. Diamondstone (no other...
One of my earliest postings was on Warren Fahy‘s “Fragment,” part of the “techno thriller” genre (though perhaps a better term might be...
Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most well-known fictional consulting detective, has inspired a whole range of imitators and pastiches. Because the character was...
“Sisters of the Shadows: The Cagliostro Curse” is another great collection of interconnected short stories by Rick Lai. These are “Wold Newton”...
Some pulp hero fans make the mistake of lumping all the pulp heroes together into one group, as if they comprise a genre all their own. Sometimes it leads to some silly...