{"id":2639,"date":"2013-06-21T23:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T03:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2013-06-21T23:34:57","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T03:34:57","slug":"roger-eberts-passion-for-pulps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2013\/06\/21\/roger-eberts-passion-for-pulps\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Ebert’s passion for pulps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Roger<\/a>I remember reading a post by Roger Ebert<\/a><\/strong> about his love of science fiction pulps back in early 2012.<\/p>\n

Ebert, who died April 4 from cancer, was best known for his role as the Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>‘ Pulitzer-Prize-winning film critic and his time on TV\u2019s \u201cAt the Movies.\u201d But he was also a fan of pulp magazines.<\/p>\n

The first I remember hearing about it was when I stumbled across a post on his blog<\/a> in early 2012. I thought I posted a link to it at ThePulp.Net<\/a><\/strong>, but see now that the link is bad. (I’ll update it.)<\/p>\n

In the post, Ebert talks about how he discovered the pulps (a couple of foreign-exchange students gave him a boxful of science-fiction pulps), his love of the classic SF authors and the fabulous covers (which are displayed a gallery).<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the editors of RogerEbert.com<\/a> posted an essay by Sun-Times<\/em> tech writer Andy Ihnatko<\/a><\/strong> titled “Roger’s Passion for Pulp Lit<\/a>.” He writes: <\/p>\n

Roger sent me a box just a couple of weeks before he died. It contained some selections from his library: some volumes of P.G. Wodehouse<\/strong> (an author we both loved)… and a thick stack of pulp magazines from the ’40s and ’50s.<\/p>\n

Each with a title and a cover designed to sell. Astounding Science-Fiction<\/span>, Weird Tales<\/span>, Fantastic Story Magazine<\/span>. Here’s the Summer 1944 edition of Thrilling Wonder Stories<\/span>. The cover shows a frightened woman wearing a daring backless number that Sir Mix-A-Lot<\/strong> would have approved of, but (I’m guessing) not the community standards of the day. She’s clutching the muscular arm of a beefy, confident man firing a zap gun at a tentacled monster who’s dragging a spaceship down into a luminescent ocean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s much more to read if you follow the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m not aware that Ebert ever made it to a Windy City Pulp and Paper Show<\/a>, a Pulpcon or a PulpFest<\/a>. It’s a shame if he didn’t. He would have found a community that also appreciates those classic magazines as much as he did.<\/p>\n

■ ■ ■<\/div>\n

A hat-tip to Mike Glyer<\/strong> at File 770<\/a> for posting about Ebert’s blog earlier tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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