| Cpt Arexu | 04 Mar 2010 9:38 p.m. PST |
I'm going out on a limb here, but I shall boldly assert it will NOT be Spicy Westerns… Personally, I'm torn between Adventure, Crime, and Science fiction… I own a bunch of Adventure pulps and some Science Fiction (Fantastic Adventure, Amazing Stories, some others), but I read crime and hardboiled stuff voraciously. |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 04 Mar 2010 9:44 p.m. PST |
I kinda like Lost Worlds (like Pellucidar) or Sword & Planet (like Barsoom.) I have a lesser interest in Pulp Sci-Fi (hardcore Flash Gordon fan, tho') but have never really gotten into cops & robbers or gang warfare. |
| CPBelt | 04 Mar 2010 9:46 p.m. PST |
link You need to check out these pdfs. I read all sorts. I'm not much into detective fiction anymore--did that a lot in college as an escape from my English major studies. |
| Kampfgruppe Cottrell | 04 Mar 2010 9:46 p.m. PST |
Two-fisted crime noir with lots of sex, violence and great dialog. Brian |
Lee Brilleaux  | 04 Mar 2010 10:03 p.m. PST |
Ranch romances with robotic cowhands. |
| Cpt Arexu | 05 Mar 2010 12:37 a.m. PST |
Yes indeed, excellent link, thanks so much! |
 mmitchell  | 05 Mar 2010 12:53 a.m. PST |
I guess you'd call it adventure, but I would called it Masked Men. I love the Shadow, the Avenger, Green Lama and more. I'm actually not a fan of the Spider, that much. I think parts of his novels are well written, but they lose it for me at the end. -------------- After those, I love Westerns (go figure). |
| pigbear | 05 Mar 2010 4:03 a.m. PST |
Hard boiled crime fiction. The first one I read was in German, from which I learned the term 'abgesaegte Schrotflinte'. |
| Plynkes | 05 Mar 2010 4:03 a.m. PST |
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| Warbeads | 05 Mar 2010 4:33 a.m. PST |
Plynkes, Um, No. Horses for courses… My gamer porn involves fast jets, not fast women. 
Gracias, Glenn |
| XRaysVision | 05 Mar 2010 5:54 a.m. PST |
I have three real favorites (though I like it all). First are the flying stories e.g. Bill Barnes and G8. Second are is what I call ironic SciFi, L. Ron Hubbard and REH wrote lots of these. In fact, many of the Twilight Zone stories would have been quite at home on the pages of the pulps magazines. Third are the sword wielding heroes like Conan and Kull. I could go on, like I said I like it all: Indiana Jones, Tarzan, John Carter etc. By the way, thanks for the great link. |
| Jamesonsafari | 05 Mar 2010 7:23 a.m. PST |
Hard boiled detective fiction. A space opera if I was in the right mood, but for that I generally to go to the 50s SF stuff (i.e. Foundation) that tries to be more 'serious' and isn't really in the Pulp genre. |
| Plynkes | 05 Mar 2010 8:10 a.m. PST |
You mean you've never read 'Hot Pants Homo', Warbeads? I'm amazed. |
| jpattern2 | 05 Mar 2010 11:52 a.m. PST |
I like it all, but Sword & Sorcery foremost, followed by hard-boiled PIs. |
| richarDISNEY | 05 Mar 2010 2:24 p.m. PST |
Swashbuckling -- Solomon Kane style!
Or the Shadow…
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| Hrothgar Berserk | 06 Mar 2010 2:56 a.m. PST |
sword & sorcery, lost worlds, cosmic horror |
| Cpt Arexu | 06 Mar 2010 7:07 p.m. PST |
Plynkes – have you read Mabel Maney's books? She did homo-erotic books in the style of Nancy Drew (Nancy Clue Mysteries), the Hardy Boys (the Hardly boys), 'Sue Barton, student nurse' (Cherry Ames) and James bond (Jane Bond). Not antiques like yours, but in the style of the elders. I used to read her stuff (and other things from the pink section) when I was a graduate student bookstore drone. |
| Gailbraithe Games | 15 Mar 2010 7:12 p.m. PST |
My favorite genre, hands down, is Sword & Planet. Sword & Planet is that genre of sci-fi/space opera that involves a single man, usually a man too violent and roguish for modern life, but too honorable for a life of crime, who is plucked from Earth and sent to a distant, alien world where (for whatever reasons) there are hostile natives who like swords. Thus he must pick up a sword, master it, and in doing so master this new world. Invariably there is a hot alien chick (usually with black hair) and someone kidnaps her somewhere between the point that it becomes obviously she was to do the hero and before he can actually do her. It worked for the first S&P novel (Burrough's "A Princess of Mars"), it works for all of them. They are ridiculously formulaic, but I love them. |
| The Shadow | 18 Mar 2010 7:35 a.m. PST |
Here's hoping that we can actually stay within the "Pulp Era". We can get a lot out of this group if we agree to what what it is that we actually want to post about. My suggestion is that we stick to detective, adventure, fantasy, Sci-Fi and western that was either actually published in the "pulp era" from approximately the turn of the century to the mid 1950's and modern fiction that takes place during the "pulp era", like "Indiana Jones" novels. I'm not adverse to talking about authors like Stevenson and Cooper either as their works are most definitely in the "adventure" genre and some of them appeared as famous films during the "pulp era". Many "pulp" magazines like "Argosy", "Adventure" and "Short Stories" tended to lean toward historic adventures anyway. I have no particular favorites. I enjoy detective fiction by Chandler, Hammett, Dent, Gruber, Sale, Davis and many of the other authors that were published in "Black Mask", "Detective Fiction Weekly", "Dime Detective", etc. I'm a big fan of ERB and REH. My two current favorites among the more popular "pulp" heroes are "The Spider" and "Operator #5". I have owned hundreds of original "pulp" magazines and I'm currently working my way through the "Purple Invasion" sequence from "Operator #5". I think that this group is a great idea and I hope that we'll get to share a lot of information and have fun doing it. (-: |
| Jayster | 23 Apr 2010 3:13 a.m. PST |
"Pulp" fiction to me is the JD books (Juvenile Delinquent) from the 1950's. Black-Board Jungle, Duke, Tom Boy, Rockabilly etc. |
