As has too often been the case, many pulp writers were ignored or overlooked during their lifetimes, only to become massively popular and well read after their demise...
During the “classic” period of science-fiction, a popular sub-genre was the “space opera.” These stories were usually melodramas of epic heroes and villains who fought...
Well, another Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention for 2015 has come and gone, and with it we get another convention program book: Windy City Pulp Stories #15. This...
The idea that the Earth is a hollow sphere is one that has been tossed around in esoteric circles, and has been the basis of some science-fiction tales. One early...
I have previously posted about the writing team of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. They have the long-running Pendergast series which I’ve reviewed, the more recent...
Arthur J. Burks (1898-1974) was a very prolific pulp author who is generally overlooked today. I think this was due to him working in a wide range of genres (science...
An interesting action series I got into is the Jack Reacher series. While some may know of the series thanks to the recent Tom Cruise movie, I was reading it a little...
Nick Carter is a literary character which has been around a long time, was enormously popular during his time, but is today largely forgotten. He has appeared in a large...
During the mid-’80s, the comic book industry went through a period where a large number of new comic books came out that glutted the market. A lot of these were black...
We sometimes forget that pulp fiction didn’t only exist in the U.S. Pulp fiction and its equivalents existed in other countries in the early 20th century. Pulp works...