Today – five years after the appalling attacks of Sept. 11 – it’s hard not to think of terrorism. Over the past few days, the idea of terrorism as depicted in fiction...
There’s been some ongoing discussions in the various newsgroups about Will Murray’s humorous essay, “Stop Me from Reading Another Spider,” which is posted on Chris...
Let me take a moment to turn the focus on ThePulp.Net. Earlier this spring, we started the PulpWiki, an online encyclopedia of pulp magazines. We’ve been adding entries...
Several years ago, it seemed like everyone who was a pulp fan was building a Web site devoted to a pulp character, genre or the pulps in general. There were new pulp...
Belated birthday wishes to author Ray Bradbury. He turned 86 on Tuesday. Inspired by the pulps, Bradbury took up writing and published his first for-pay story in the...
After an impromptu commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the hard disk, I’ve got my PowerBook up and running again. As a result, I have posted the last set of photos...
Well, it’s going to take a bit longer to sort through my Pulpcon photos. My laptop hard drive must have had too much fun on the trip and decided to kick the bucket. I...
Pardon the paraphrase, but I came to the same revelation that Charlton Heston did in the movie Soylent Green (except for the cannibalism aspect, of course). Pulpcon is...
Audio files of Friday night’s panel discussion and Saturday’s guest of honor talk by Phil Klass are now available to listen to. Both run nearly an hour each...
Pulpcon was over for me about 45 minutes after midnight Saturday. The Pulpcon suite in the hotel was going strong, but I had to get to sleep to get up by 5:30 a.m. and...