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Tag Archives: novels
Pulp Appeal: Ursula K. Le Guin
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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Tagged inspiration, new wave science-fiction, novels, science-fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin, women writers
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Pulp Consumption: The Witcher
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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Tagged fantasy, horror, monster hunter, novels, Poland, Sapkowski, the witcher, video game
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Pulp Appeal: Philip José Farmer
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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Tagged fantasy, inspiration, novels, pastiche, Philip Jose Farmer, science-fiction
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Pulp Appeal: H. Rider Haggard
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
Pulp Appeal: Egil & Nix
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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Tagged Fritz Leiber, new pulp, novels, Paul S. Kemp, Pulp Appeal, sword and sorcery
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