{"id":1408,"date":"2011-08-06T22:05:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2011-08-11T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:51:13","slug":"making-room-for-new-pulp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2011\/08\/06\/making-room-for-new-pulp\/","title":{"rendered":"Making room for \u2018new pulp\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to admit I’ve been slow to add links to “new pulp” sites at ThePulp.Net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I can’t say that I’ve read many new pulp stories. It’s not because I dislike them. Rather, in my limited time for reading, I’d rather be reading stories from the actual pulps that I haven’t read before. (And clearly, after a 50-years-plus publishing period, there are plenty of pulp stories that I haven’t read.)
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\nI’ve also been torn about broadening the focus of ThePulp.Net, which I’ve tried to limit to the pulp magazines and material about the pulps.<\/p>\n

But an article by David Walker<\/strong> about new pulp in this summer’s issue of The Pulpster<\/em> \u2014 the zine published yearly for PulpFest<\/a> \u2014 got me thinking about better coverage of the topic at ThePulp.Net.<\/p>\n

In particular, it was an editor’s note that accompanied the story that really struck me.<\/p>\n

I thought Tony Davis<\/strong>, editor of The Pulpster<\/em>, summed up “new pulp” quite well:<\/p>\n

The “new pulp fiction” has been active in recent years, and more and more self-published novels and collections appear on PulpFest dealer tables and mail-order lists.<\/p>\n

This used to be known as “fan fiction,” and science-fiction fans have been producing such material since organized fandom reared its head in the 1930s and ’40s. Today’s publications are more professional looking than those produced on old mimeograph machines or with carbon copies on a Smith Corona manual typewriter.<\/p>\n

There’s both good and bad with the new pulp fiction. On the “good” side, pulp fans are encouraged to express their love of the pulps and pulp heroes by creating new tales. And as the years go by and we get further and further removed from the pulp era, it’s nice to know that the pulps are living on in one form or another. Publishers of the new pulp fiction also take out advertising space in pulp fanzines \u2014 that can only be “good” for business.<\/p>\n

On the “bad” side, one could question the quality of some of these modern attempts at writing pulp fiction by non-professional scribes. Sure, you could argue, there were badly written stories during the heyday of the pulps. However, the pulp publishers had editors and other staff who read submissions and ensured that they at least met the standards of the pulp magazine (even for a Spicy<\/em> title). Some stories were returned to aspiring authors for a rewrite, sometimes including critical suggestions for improvement. Other stories ended up on slush piles as fillers. But at least they were subject to review.<\/p>\n

Another concern is that newcomers to the pulps might mistakenly think the glossy trade paperback they are looking at was originally written in 1933, not 2011. Newcomers should remember that “new pulp” is reflective of fan fiction today and not the pulp era of the late 1890s through the early 1950s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tony ends with: \u201cThere is a place for the new fan fiction…\u201d<\/p>\n

So, to echo Tony, there’s a place for new pulp or fan fiction \u2014 or whatever you’d like to call it \u2014 at ThePulp.Net. We’ve added a new page to the \u201cpulp hunt\u201d section<\/a> linking you to publishers and other sources for new pulp.<\/p>\n

As always, if you know of any links we should add, please let us know<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to admit I’ve been slow to add links to “new pulp” sites at ThePulp.Net. I can’t say that I’ve read many new pulp stories. It’s not because I dislike them. Rather, in my limited time for reading, I’d rather be reading stories from the actual pulps that I haven’t read before. (And clearly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[16,7,14,15],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","category-thepulpnet","category-websites"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-mI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}