tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post4374630476043542420..comments2024-01-05T10:46:06.674-06:00Comments on Scott D. Parker: Writer: Help Wanted: Fiction with More PulpScott D. Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15293540073601809197noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-7673806721260202492009-02-11T17:55:00.000-06:002009-02-11T17:55:00.000-06:00hell yeah, Neopulp, lets go.I'm just coming to an ...hell yeah, Neopulp, lets go.<BR/><BR/>I'm just coming to an end (i think) of a return to pulp reading. I've not really got anything to add to what's already been suggested.<BR/><BR/>HOWARD was a very effective writer, and Burroughs. Rider Haggard isn't really pulp as such, but KING SOLOMONS MINES was such an inspiration to what followed.<BR/><BR/>As Fred said, Elmore Leonards westerns are a good read. I'd like him to return to that field a little more.<BR/><BR/>The fantasy writer Michael Moorcock has had the occasional experiment with Pulp, books like WARLORD OF THE AIR is a good read.<BR/><BR/>Then of course there's pulp-ispired comic books, but that wouldbe a whole different blog. One i will suggest to everyone on here is INCOGNITO. Issue 2 is out this week, so issue 1 is still on the shelves in many shops. Its the tale of a superpowered villain in the witness protection program and its Ed Brubaker's tribute to pulp as much as CRIMINAL is is tribute to hardboiled. As with CRIMINAL, each issue of INCOGNITO has an essay in the back. The essays are provided by Jess Nevins, and each one is about a different pulp character. The first one was THE SHADOW.Jay Stringerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08764183157841848163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-54592415610654508722009-01-06T23:08:00.000-06:002009-01-06T23:08:00.000-06:00For SF I read Analog in the late 1960s into the 19...For SF I read Analog in the late 1960s into the 1970s, and the authors I liked then were Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, C. Simak, Arthur C. Clarke.<BR/><BR/>I also read most of the Edgar Rice Burroughs books on Tarzan as my mother had all her hardcovers from 1918 to 1923 which were reprints with a printed signature on an inside page. It was the same for the Mark Twain series of books, and all the books had bookplate photos with tissue paper covers.Barbara Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00610140328527165017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-83268385325859482932009-01-05T22:39:00.000-06:002009-01-05T22:39:00.000-06:00Try, "The Worst Kind of Lies," by John Patrick Lam...Try, <A HREF="http://www.jpatricklamont.com/" REL="nofollow">"The Worst Kind of Lies,"</A> by John Patrick Lamont. Skillfully crafted, John Lamont portrays his characters in a way that they are not seen as villains even though many of them partake in the underhanded methods. AND, it is one of the only mystery/fictional books out there that speak so much truth.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11244425245737901684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-66698248808365767382009-01-05T19:21:00.000-06:002009-01-05T19:21:00.000-06:00Doc Savage for sure. I would also say William P. M...Doc Savage for sure. I would also say William P. McGivern and Norbert Davis for some hardboiled pulp. Davis is a real unsung writer from the same class that produced Chandler and Hammett. On the western front: Luke Short was my big discovery of '08.David Cranmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749857752139212888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-2102173120458623082009-01-05T12:54:00.000-06:002009-01-05T12:54:00.000-06:00I'm discovering the original conan tales by robert...I'm discovering the original conan tales by robert e howard - they are great. Also Zane Grey, Lee Floren. And of course Louis LamourGary Dobbs/Jack Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10935686140719743351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-5795586581327236072009-01-05T12:06:00.000-06:002009-01-05T12:06:00.000-06:00James - I have all 11 Mars books but have only rea...James - I have all 11 Mars books but have only read two...a long time ago. I just got the audio for A Princess of Mars so that book review will be coming along shortly.<BR/><BR/>Patrick and Fred - Thanks for your additions. I have some of the Conan and Kane material on my Palm Pilot. Now to just read them. <BR/><BR/>Patti - NeoPulp: I can't help but wonder if the Gabriel Hunt books will start a mini-revival in pulp adventure stories. If there isn't a genre "NeoPulp," let's invent one.Scott D. Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293540073601809197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-40101896162901337772009-01-05T11:27:00.000-06:002009-01-05T11:27:00.000-06:00Scott-It would be fun to keep lists of these for a...Scott-It would be fun to keep lists of these for all of us to refer to. I'm as much at sea as you in most areas. Is there such a category as NeoPulp, I wonder.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-20368482789605974302009-01-05T10:10:00.000-06:002009-01-05T10:10:00.000-06:00Pulp adventure: Harold Lamb, Talbot Mundy, Arthur ...Pulp adventure: Harold Lamb, Talbot Mundy, Arthur D. Howden-Smith, and H. Bedford Jones.<BR/><BR/>Pulp SF: Otis Adelbert Kline (the best of the ERB imitators), C.L. Moore, and Edmond Hamilton.<BR/><BR/>Pulp Western: Elmore Leonard and Louis L'Amour.<BR/><BR/>Dunno about pulp spy. If you define pulp as a state of mind rather than as a medium of publication, I'd include the pb series that appeared in the '60s during the Bond boom -- including the Nick Carter series, Norman Daniels' Man from AXE books, and Ace Books' novelizations of The Man from UNCLE.Fred Blosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07307848103704970189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-13654354844962090212009-01-05T09:12:00.000-06:002009-01-05T09:12:00.000-06:00Try Leigh Brackett's "Eric John Stark" books and h...Try Leigh Brackett's "Eric John Stark" books and her crime stuff. All of Robert E. Howard's "Conan" and "Solomon Kane" stories have recently been reissued (as he wrote them, without tampering and pastiches by deCamp and Carter).<BR/><BR/>There was a huge anthology published years ago called something like BEFORE THE GOLDEN AGE that was packed with pulpy SF. Some of the stories were quite good.Patrick Shawn Bagleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14832860010935241958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-440764593580848794.post-42089940004545263382009-01-05T08:44:00.000-06:002009-01-05T08:44:00.000-06:00For pulp adventure (and Western and fantasy, for t...For pulp adventure (and Western and fantasy, for that matter), start with Robert E. Howard. I love the Doc Savage books, especially the early ones. There are dozens of pulp Western authors I'd recommend, but T.T. Flynn and H.A. De Rosso are two whose work can be found pretty easily in recent paperback reprints. You've already discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs. Now you need to read his Martian series, or at least the first three, which form a trilogy of their own. As for SF, there are a ton of anthologies reprinting stuff from the Golden Age. I was always partial to Asimov and Heinlein and Kuttner, but really, I enjoy almost everything from that era.James Reasonerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18049917964433932612noreply@blogger.com