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Pulp Appeal: Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted on January 29, 2018 by

This article has been harder to write than I anticipated. That’s not just because Ursula K. Le Guin was an important writer, but because I realize that I have been remiss in my reading of her work. First, she’s not … Continue reading →

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Pulp Consumption: The Witcher

Posted on October 30, 2017 by

Geralt of Rivia (perhaps best known from the Witcher series of video games) first premiered in a series of short stories penned by Andrzej Sapkowski back in the early ‘90s. Sapkowski would go ahead and pen a series of connected … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Philip José Farmer

Posted on October 9, 2017 by

10/22/17 – Updated to include corrected links. See Note [2] As with Matt’s article about the Chronicles of Amber last week, no one could rightfully call Philip José Farmer a pulp writer. He definitely belongs in the movement known as … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: H. Rider Haggard

Posted on June 12, 2017 by

H. Rider Haggard was not really a pulp fiction author, having been a “respectable” author of Victorian literature whose first stories were published in literary magazines in the late 1870s. He was a lawyer but paid more attention to his … Continue reading →

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Pulp Appeal: Egil & Nix

Posted on May 15, 2017 by

I first came across Paul S. Kemp’s characters of Egil and Nix in the highly recommended Blackguards anthology put out by Ragnarok Press, and I have been sure to pick up their individual novels . Coming across as a couple … Continue reading →

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