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Fun Has a New Enemy

Author JD Cowan gives his informed take on the latest desecration of The Shadow from James Patterson's brand sweatshop. Anyone who has read an OldPub book in the last decade certainly has warning bells going off in their head, and for very good reason. All you need is the above…
May 21, 2021
Pulp Mindset

Pulp Mindset

Author JD Cowan returns with a practical guide to navigating the sometimes stormy waters of NewPub at pulp speed! From the Amazon product description: Out with the Old, in with the NewPub Nobody reads anymore. In an age where audiences consume more art than ever before, books have remained irrelevant…
July 30, 2020
SMRT Stories: Reprise

SMRT Stories: Reprise

My earlier post on SJWs cannibalizing the once-mighty White Wolf Publishing occasioned a friend to recommend the 2004 video game *deep breath* Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. Having lacked a PC capable of running the game back then, I missed it the first time around. I wasn't the only one, either.…
October 22, 201927 Comments
Heckling vs Criticism

Heckling vs Criticism

Jimfear138 shares his thoughts concerning a recent dustup within the Pulp Revolution. [Caution: NSFW language.] So what I'm talking about is this whole Groffin shit. For the uninitiated, and I only know the story so far back, apparently Groffin is an internet commentator who got into a slapfight with Jeffro…
March 20, 20189 Comments
Neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire

Neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire

Appendix N guru Jeffro Johnson responds to charges from the Big Men with Screwdrivers crowd that Star Wars is not, and never has been, science fiction. Bruce Bethke weighs in yet again on a very old argument: this nutso idea that Star Wars isn’t science fiction: “Sure, it looks like science…
December 19, 201715 Comments
PulpRev Valediction

PulpRev Valediction

Over at PulpRev.com, blogger and writer Bradford Walker bids Godspeed to legendary Castalia House blog editor Jeffro Johnson and yours truly. Here's Bradford: We've gotten word that Jeffro Johnson has stepped down as the editor of the Castalia House blog, and that Brian Niemeier has taken leave of Geek Gab,…
November 9, 2017

Shadow of the Past

Rabble-rousing raconteur, shades-bedecked sage, and pulp aficionado Razörfist presents for our listening pleasure a lovingly staged recreation of a lost episode of The Shadow radio program. This classic installment features Orson Welles' third-ever turn as the titular hero. This production also marks the final performance of Razör's friend and cast mate…
November 1, 20178 Comments
Fools’ Gold

Fools’ Gold

A Twitter user chronicles his blocking by author Marko Kloos over a disagreement about the current and former state of science fiction. Not only was the Golden Age better written, it was not the age Kloos is thinking of. Kloos has fallen for the post-1980 memory holing of the Pulp…
October 23, 20179 Comments
Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

The International Lord of Hate recently waded into a FaceBook thread started by author Mark Wandrey that had been darkened by a Campbellian Kool-Aid swiller who showed up to lecture the best-selling authors' fans about how hard science fiction is the only science fiction. Glenn: "Lowbrow readers want to be told…
September 28, 201725 Comments
Japanese Pulp Influence on Cinema

Japanese Pulp Influence on Cinema

Author M.T. White joined me on the latest episode of Geek Gab: On the Books to discuss the major influence that Japanese pulp novels have had on the world of film. We also speculate on how the pulp ethos survived in Japan while being almost totally memory-holed in the West.…
September 20, 20174 Comments