Editor in Chief Bill | 26 May 2015 5:09 p.m. PST |
If you were asked to recommend the five Pulp novels every Pulp fan should read, which books would you name? |
Coelacanth | 26 May 2015 5:29 p.m. PST |
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest Robert E. Howard, Red Nails A. Merritt, Dwellers in the Mirage E.E. Smith, The Skylark of Space Ron |
nnascati | 26 May 2015 5:41 p.m. PST |
H.R. Haggard – King Soloman's Mines " – She E.R. Burroughs – The Land that Time Forgot H.P. Lovecraft – At the Mountains of Madness |
Winston Smith | 26 May 2015 5:48 p.m. PST |
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Winston Smith | 26 May 2015 5:49 p.m. PST |
And let's not have what's his name come in and tell us that our choices aren't Pulp. |
Gone Fishing | 26 May 2015 6:04 p.m. PST |
The Maltese Falcon and Call of Cthulhu would top my list. At the Mountains of Madness is a good choice also. At a lower literary level, there are always the Doc Savage stories (pick any; The Thousand Headed Man was enjoyable) and the Fu Manchu stories. |
Atomic Floozy | 26 May 2015 7:20 p.m. PST |
My 3 favorite are all by Ann Bannon: Odd Girl Out I Am a Woman Beebo Brinker |
Blake Walker | 26 May 2015 8:51 p.m. PST |
Cthulhu Mythos and Doc Savage. |
Sergeant Paper | 26 May 2015 11:17 p.m. PST |
The moon pool. Red Harvest. At the Mountains of Madness. The Fine Art of Murder. The Lensman series. |
Dave Crowell | 27 May 2015 4:06 a.m. PST |
Maltese Falcon Red Nails At the Mountains of Madness After that it gets harder to pick…
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nnascati | 27 May 2015 4:55 a.m. PST |
Okay, then if we are adding Detective novels, ALL of Chandler's Philip Marlowe books. |
Fish | 27 May 2015 5:01 a.m. PST |
If detective stuff is OK, then crime must be as well so Parker books by Richard Stark (aka. Donald E. Westlake) should definitely be mentioned! violentworldofparker.com |
Paint it Pink | 27 May 2015 8:03 a.m. PST |
Larry Correia's Monster Hunter series and Warbound series. link I reviewed in passing Monster Hunter Nemesis here: link |
Huscarle | 27 May 2015 10:49 a.m. PST |
It all depends on what we class as Pulp? I'll read anything by Abraham Merritt or Raymond Chandler, but are they more fantasy and noir? I've never read any Bulldog Drummond, but he sounds like a pulp hero to me. Anthony Conway's Captain Caspasian quartet A Merritt "Burn Witch, Burn" H Rider Haggard "She" Dashiell Hammett "The Maltese Falcon" HP Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" |
Dave Crowell | 27 May 2015 4:50 p.m. PST |
The pulps published plenty of noir and fantasy. Detective stories were a mainstay. If it was published in the pulp magazines it's "pulp". |
Sergeant Paper | 27 May 2015 10:50 p.m. PST |
Anything in a pulp magazine is original pulp, but I'll give the Stark and Correia novels credit for pulpyness. |
Meiczyslaw | 27 May 2015 11:16 p.m. PST |
Any of the big four from Hammett could be on the list. For modern pulp, I can recommend The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, if for no other reason than Heinlein, Hubbard, and Gibson are all major characters, along with the Shadow. |
langobard | 28 May 2015 3:50 a.m. PST |
The Land that Time Forgot. A Princess of Mars. At the Mountains of Madness. King Solomans' Mines. Stranger in a Strange Land. |
KSmyth | 28 May 2015 4:25 p.m. PST |
The Big Sleep-Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake-Raymond Chandler A Princess of Mars-Edgar Rice Burroughs Pelucidar-Edgar Rice Burroughs (just for something different) The Phoenix on the Sword-Robert E. Howard |
JimSelzer | 28 May 2015 9:00 p.m. PST |
Lin Carters Zarkon novels Flash Gordon Buck Rogers Tarzan Doc Savage King Kong |
The Shadow | 29 May 2015 8:24 p.m. PST |
Jim Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers weren't novels. They were comic strips, and later radio shows and serials, among other media. |
The Shadow | 29 May 2015 8:27 p.m. PST |
>>And let's not have what's his name come in and tell us that our choices aren't Pulp<< Can't say that anymore. The "Editor in Chief" has determined that in TMP pulp means anything and nothing in particular. |
pvi99th | 01 Jun 2015 6:03 a.m. PST |
Actually Buck Rogers appeared first in Amazing Stories in April 1928. The creator and author Philip Francis Nowlan later turned it into a comic strip. The stories are available online. The character was named Anthony Rogers, which later became Anthony "Buck" Rogers. Both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips are available as book collections. As well as Tarzan and The Phantom. |
The Shadow | 01 Jun 2015 12:08 p.m. PST |
>>Actually Buck Rogers appeared first in Amazing Stories in April 1928. The creator and author Philip Francis Nowlan later turned it into a comic strip. The stories are available online.<< That was August 1928, not April, and the story appeared with a few others in that issue, so I never thought of it as a novel, as the OP requested. More of a short story, or at the most a novella. >>Both Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips are available as book collections. As well as Tarzan and The Phantom.<< Yes. That's true. |
The Shadow | 01 Jun 2015 12:24 p.m. PST |
>>The Lady in the Lake<< It was a combination of two short stories by Chandler. "The Lady in the Lake" and "No Crime in the Mountains" with some added material to create a novel length book. I prefer the short story collection "Killer in the Rain", as it contains both of these stories and several others, including "The Man Who Liked Dogs", which is my favorite Chandler short story. |
The Shadow | 05 Jun 2015 10:13 a.m. PST |
OK. Sticking with novels. All of REH and HPL stories were either short stories, or at best novellas. And having no idea what the OP means by "pulp". I'll throw my hat in the ring with these detective and adventure novels from the pulp era: The Maltese Falcon – Hammett The treasure of the Sierra Madre – Traven Beau Geste – Wren Tarzan of the Apes – ERB Who Goes There – Campbell |
warren bruhn | 06 Jun 2015 2:17 p.m. PST |
"The Lost World" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1912) "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912) "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912) "The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu" by Sax Rohmer (1913) "Mark of the Lion" by Suzanne Arruda (2006) This last one may require some explanation. The recent Jade del Cameron mystery series by Suzanne Arruda is about the closest thing to the spirit of adventure of the old Pulp era that I've found among modern authors. There's six books in that series so far, with a seventh on the way. Check them out here: suzannearruda.com/jade.html |
Whemever1 | 23 Jun 2015 4:21 p.m. PST |
I agree with most of the suggestions above, but here are some more: "How I found Livingston" by Henry Morton Stanley (add a little realism to your African jungle adventures) (Not a novel) "The Janissary Tree" by Jason Godwin (Istanbul!) Any of the Marcus Falco books by Lindsey Davis (PI in ancient Rome) |
Lfseeney | 27 Dec 2015 8:54 p.m. PST |
Any good new pulp stuff being published? |