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Tag Archives: pulp fiction
Jonathan Green’s Unnatural History
What makes reviewing this book complicated is the difficulty in discerning whether the campy, cliché-ridden, pulp-ishness of the book is intentional as an homage to earlier adventure novels, or simply an example of the standard of writing that is normally … Continue reading
Loren D. Estleman’s Paperback Jack
Loren D. Estleman’s Paperback Jack is an interesting turn on a lot of material that the author is more than familiar with. In the past Loren D. Estleman has written historical novels, mysteries, westerns, and others. He is best known … Continue reading
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Tagged noir detective fiction, pulp fiction
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C. L. Moore’s Judgment Night
Believe it or not, science fiction and fantasy used to be dominated by men. (They also used to be a lot more fluid than they are now – the genres, not the men.) Of the major writers in the area … Continue reading
Andrew Stanton’s John Carter
I missed John Carter in the theaters, but ran across the DVD on one of my browsing trips through Amazon. I figured I’d probably enjoy it, and I found the DVD for half price. How could I say no? Edgar … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, pulp fiction, science fiction
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Lavie Tidhar’s The Great Game audiobook
I’ve got a lot of audiobooks in my Audible library as it’s been my primary source for such matters for many years now, so sometimes I forget if I’ve listened to one of them. This is how I came to be listening recently … Continue reading
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Tagged alternate universe, fantasy, mystery, pulp fiction
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Otto Penzler’s The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps
This formidable anthology is subtitled The Best Crime Stories From The Pulps During Their Golden Age — The ’20s, ’30’s And ’40s. With a couple of exceptions, that is a fairly accurate description. At its best, pulp fiction works like a … Continue reading
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Jeff Siegel’s The American Detective: An Illustrated History
Mark Cenczyk penned this review. The course taken by American mystery fiction can politely be described as circuitous. The genre has been regarded largely as second-tier reading by the greater public, a fact that can be confirmed by even the most … Continue reading
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Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Absolute Edition
I don’t own many of the Absolute Editions because a) they cost a lot, and b) there’s very few other graphic novels I believe warrant this approach such as the Absolute Edition of the Planetary series that was written by … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Moore, pulp fiction
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Philip Jose Farmer’s Tarzan Alive
Mention the name of Tarzan and most people think of the brawny hero of a series of B-movies made in the ’30s and ’40s. Elmo Lincoln was the first actor to portray the so-called “Ape Man” way back in 1918, … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Rice Burrough, Philip Jose Farmer, pulp fiction, Tarzan
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Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng Chiang
Doctor Who since being rebooted in 2005 has benefited from advances in digital effects, customing, green screen shooting, makeup, and, oh just about everything else we take for granted in watching an sf television program these days. Back when this … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr Who, pulp fiction, science fiction
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