Now would be a good time to win the lottery. If you haven’t checked it out, head over to Adventure House and browse through the Frank M. Robinson...
Category - Pulps
Paper vs. digital is a topic I’ve written about before. It’s still something I think about quite often (recently, in particular, since I just...
Reading novelist Derek Haas‘ column “The Code of the Thriller: Never Bore Them” in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal made me think of the...
The first two issues of Amazing Stories under Ziff-Davis editorial control (June and August 1938) took a daring step for a pulp magazine. When you think of...
There was one thing that got under my skin during the whole “new pulp” kerfuffle a number of weeks ago. It was the allegation that I (and the rest...
Okay, I admit it: I’m a sucker for pulp reference material. I’m as much a collector of pulp fanzines, reference books and websites as I am of pulp...
Here’s a funny take on the form-letter rejection slip. Still stinging from having his early stories repeatedly turned down, John D. MacDonald slipped...
While caught up in an unexpected uproar last week, I missed the release of NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books.
“Pulp” is a medium. It is a pulpwood magazine. It is not a style of writing. Not a genre of fiction. Not one end of a spectrum of literature. Pulp is not...
There’s that certain delight when your interests coincide with someone else’s. I knew a bit about this particular connection before, but it was...