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Post by deuce on Dec 14, 2016 19:11:14 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 2, 2017 10:05:22 GMT -5
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Post by Grim Wanderer on Jan 3, 2017 10:58:26 GMT -5
I wish there was still a source for some good old fashioned pulp adventure tales. Or is there...? Perhaps there are some publications out there that still do? Anyone know?  That is one disturbing cover. I doubt that... erm.. 'lady' would need rescuing. |
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Post by paulmc on Jan 4, 2017 9:27:21 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 4, 2017 9:43:30 GMT -5
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Post by Von K on Jan 14, 2017 14:48:38 GMT -5
There seem to be three major variations within the definition of New Pulp:
retro-pulp - one might almost call this pulp pastiche I suppose.
neo-pulp - the digital resurgence of new fiction written with pulp sensibilities,
New Pulp - a composite genre in which genre tropes are so blended as to make it almost beyond definition (see below).
Here's what Chuck Wendig has to say about the last. He classes Joe Lansdale within this definition of New Pulp.
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Post by deuce on Jan 17, 2017 12:15:17 GMT -5
REH never actually got published in the "weird menace/shudder" pulps, but several of his yarns are firmly in that vein. James Reasoner is a Howard scholar and fan, besides being a modern pulp-style author himself. His Weird Menace Volume 1 contains stories by fans of the pulps and REH in particular. One is our own John C. "emerald" Hocking. Worth buying. jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2015/10/now-available-weird-menace-volume-1.html |
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Post by thedarkman on Jan 17, 2017 15:33:15 GMT -5
REH never actually got published in the "weird menace/shudder" pulps, but several of his yarns are firmly in that vein. James Reasoner is a Howard scholar and fan, besides being a modern pulp-style author himself. His Weird Menace Volume 1 contains stories by fans of the pulps and REH in particular. One is our own John C. "emerald" Hocking. Worth buying. jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2015/10/now-available-weird-menace-volume-1.htmlHocking's tale is the standout; worth the purchase price on its own... |
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Post by deuce on Jan 19, 2017 23:25:27 GMT -5
There seem to be three major variations within the definition of New Pulp: retro-pulp - one might almost call this pulp pastiche I suppose. neo-pulp - the digital resurgence of new fiction written with pulp sensibilities, New Pulp - a composite genre in which genre tropes are so blended as to make it almost beyond definition (see below). Here's what Chuck Wendig has to say about the last. He classes Joe Lansdale within this definition of New Pulp. Wendig is entitled to his opinion, but "It is what I say it is," doesn't really get us too far. Here's what Misha Burnett, an author who's been very much in the thick of what he calls the "Pulp Revival", has to say:
"The definition of Pulp Revival is still a very unfixed thing. There are some characteristics that everyone who uses the term (and it seems to be gaining ground day by day) seems to agree on: action-oriented storytelling, protagonists with a clear moral compass, an element of romance in both the classical sense of decisive action as well as the modern sense of interpersonal passion, and an unapologetic view of violence as the proper tool for overcoming evil." |
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Post by paulmc on Jan 20, 2017 13:21:40 GMT -5
Here's what Misha Burnett, an author who's been very much in the thick of what he calls the "Pulp Revival", has to say:
"The definition of Pulp Revival is still a very unfixed thing. There are some characteristics that everyone who uses the term (and it seems to be gaining ground day by day) seems to agree on: action-oriented storytelling, protagonists with a clear moral compass, an element of romance in both the classical sense of decisive action as well as the modern sense of interpersonal passion, and an unapologetic view of violence as the proper tool for overcoming evil."I like that quote a lot. Thanks. |
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Post by thedarkman on Jan 20, 2017 18:11:18 GMT -5
Here's what Misha Burnett, an author who's been very much in the thick of what he calls the "Pulp Revival", has to say:
"The definition of Pulp Revival is still a very unfixed thing. There are some characteristics that everyone who uses the term (and it seems to be gaining ground day by day) seems to agree on: action-oriented storytelling, protagonists with a clear moral compass, an element of romance in both the classical sense of decisive action as well as the modern sense of interpersonal passion, and an unapologetic view of violence as the proper tool for overcoming evil."I like that quote a lot. Thanks. I love this quote. These are the types of stories I want to read. These are the types of stories I want to write. I gotta save this, print it off and frame it for a position on the wall above my desk... |
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Post by Von K on Jan 21, 2017 13:06:36 GMT -5
... Here's what Misha Burnett, an author who's been very much in the thick of what he calls the "Pulp Revival", has to say:
"The definition of Pulp Revival is still a very unfixed thing. There are some characteristics that everyone who uses the term (and it seems to be gaining ground day by day) seems to agree on: action-oriented storytelling, protagonists with a clear moral compass, an element of romance in both the classical sense of decisive action as well as the modern sense of interpersonal passion, and an unapologetic view of violence as the proper tool for overcoming evil."Yes, Misha's characteristics are some of the ‘pulp sensibilities’ I was referring to above under neo-pulp. Chuck’s angle on new pulp is one of the ones that’s out there so I just thought I’d add it to the dialogue. |
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Post by deuce on Jan 22, 2017 19:10:02 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 4, 2017 13:37:20 GMT -5
Two great posts by P. Alexander, the founder and publisher of Cirsova magazine: www.castaliahouse.com/p-alexander-on-why-pulp-revolution-is-different/www.castaliahouse.com/what-is-the-pulp-revolution/"We’ve embraced the idea that SFF needs to regress harder. We’re using the pulps as a starting point and going forward as though the Campbellian Revolution never happened, as though Burroughs was still held as above ‘the Big Three’, as though Leigh Brackett was still the Queen of Science Fiction rather than LeGuin or Atwood, as though fun, adventure, heroics, and romance were still a good thing in SciFi."
"We are not using the pulps to recapture kitsch; we are not using the pulps as a trope-mine. What we are doing is going back to some of the exemplary authors from that period and using them as a starting point. Not to ape them, but because we love them – we love the stories they told, the characters they brought to life, and the vivid colors in which they painted the exciting futures and worlds of the unknown.
We are not hell bent on re-inhabiting the past; we are using it as a launching point to go off in new directions." |
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Post by deuce on Feb 6, 2017 17:54:11 GMT -5
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