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Post by paulmc on Feb 7, 2017 12:18:08 GMT -5
CIRSOVA Issues 5 & 6 are being Kickstarter-ed now. They are driving more for readers than publishing costs, so you can put in as little as $1 to receive both issues in e-format subscription.
Or, you can pony up more money for print editions and/or both.
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Post by deuce on Feb 9, 2017 8:59:25 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 10, 2017 19:41:33 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 13, 2017 15:41:55 GMT -5
Dragon Award-winning author, Brian Niemeier, has this to say about the Pulp Revolution now slashing and blasting its way forward: Lest anyone mistake our intentions, the Pulp Revolution does not seek to memory-hole works from the Silver Age onward. We want authors to write the stories they want to write and for audiences to read the stories they want to read.
Following the model of the pulps, with their freedom from genre constraints and market-facing work ethic, delivers the best of both.
In that light, having my books described as what would happen if A. Merritt wrote a Dune novel is the highest praise imaginable. |
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Post by Von K on Feb 15, 2017 13:27:48 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Feb 17, 2017 7:26:32 GMT -5
CIRSOVA Issues 5 & 6 are being Kickstarter-ed now. They are driving more for readers than publishing costs, so you can put in as little as $1 to receive both issues in e-format subscription. Or, you can pony up more money for print editions and/or both. / More background on upcoming issues and what, exactly, Cirsova does with that money: www.castaliahouse.com/final-week-of-cirsovas-2017-subscription-drive/ |
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Post by deuce on Feb 19, 2017 14:18:33 GMT -5
Hey VonK! Yeah, I thought Jasyn Jones (aka Daddy Warpig) did a good job on that one. It's time we had an alternative to "Blue" and "Pink" SF. Jones talks about a revision of the accepted categories of the "Ages" of sci-fi here: www.castaliahouse.com/the-great-myth-of-the-golden-age-of-science-fiction/After a Long Night, the Dawn of Red SF is Coming. Get ready for the PulpRev.  .jpg) |
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Post by deuce on Feb 22, 2017 17:47:51 GMT -5
Terence Hanley, longtime proprieter of the Tellers of Weird Tales website, is starting up a PulpRev-type magazine. I hope it does well. tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/p/a-new-magazine.htmlJust scroll down to previous posts to get full submission info. Here's a quote from Hanley in an earlier post: I have decided to separate out genre stories unrelated to public domain characters for inclusion in their own magazine, an old-fashioned story magazine to be entitled The Gold-Bug Magazine. I am beginning to collect material for the first issue, but I need more to fill it out and to fill out subsequent issues. With that, I'm asking for submissions of:
Fiction
Novellettes
Serials
Short stories
Short short stories
Vignettes
Poetry
Essays
Cartoons (New Yorker-style gag cartoons)
Illustrations
These should be in the pulp genres of:
Adventure
Crime fiction
Detective stories
Fantasy
Gothic romance
Historical adventure
Historical romance
Horror
Mystery
Science fiction
Space opera
Suspense
War
Weird fiction
Weird war stories
Weird Western stories
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Post by deuce on Feb 23, 2017 22:53:16 GMT -5
Isaac Asimov, on how John W. Campbell cleansed the wicked influence of the Pulps from sci-fi and made "speculative fiction" safe for Men with Screwdrivers: “By his own example and by his instruction and by his undeviating and persisting insistence, he forced first Astounding and then all science fiction into his mold. He abandoned the earlier orientation of the field. He demolished the stock characters who had filled it; eradicated the penny dreadful plots; extirpated the Sunday-supplement science. In a phrase, he blotted out the purple of pulp. Instead, he demanded that science-fiction writers understand science and understand people, a hard requirement that many of the established writers of the 1930s could not meet. Campbell did not compromise because of that: those who could not meet his requirements could not sell to him, and the carnage was as great as it had been in Hollywood a decade before, while silent movies had given way to the talkies.”Thanks, Campbell (and Asimov)! We certainly didn't want or need more of something like the painting below, did we, JWC? Not a screwdriver in sight! The horror!  |
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Post by deuce on Feb 24, 2017 13:38:56 GMT -5
Isaac Asimov, on how John W. Campbell cleansed the wicked influence of the Pulps from sci-fi and made "speculative fiction" safe for Men with Screwdrivers: “By his own example and by his instruction and by his undeviating and persisting insistence, he forced first Astounding and then all science fiction into his mold. He abandoned the earlier orientation of the field. He demolished the stock characters who had filled it; eradicated the penny dreadful plots; extirpated the Sunday-supplement science. In a phrase, he blotted out the purple of pulp. Instead, he demanded that science-fiction writers understand science and understand people, a hard requirement that many of the established writers of the 1930s could not meet. Campbell did not compromise because of that: those who could not meet his requirements could not sell to him, and the carnage was as great as it had been in Hollywood a decade before, while silent movies had given way to the talkies.”Thanks, Campbell (and Asimov)! We certainly didn't want or need more of something like the painting below, did we, JWC? Not a screwdriver in sight! The horror! I love this from Asimov: "He demanded that science-fiction writers understand science and understand people..." "Understand people." Really, Asimov?!? This, from a writer who, even his most slavering fanboys will admit, wrote some of the most wooden characters from that era of sci-fi. SMH. |
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Post by deuce on Feb 27, 2017 14:52:39 GMT -5
"It's not about where anyone stands. It's about writing what you want to write and readers reading what they want to read."
-- Brian Niemeier, PulpRev author
“I tend to characterize fiction by its philosophical basis, and so I think of what is usually called “Hard SF” as “Materialistic Fantasy”. That is to say the acceptable tropes in Hard SF–faster than light travel, self-aware machines, handheld laser weapons, human cloning, and so on–are no more plausible or less fantastic than wizards and dragons. It is a fantasy of a particular metaphysic, the clockwork universe of determinists.”
— Misha Burnett, PulpRev authorJasyn Jones/Daddy Warpig argues that "Hard" Sci-Fi is a delusion and a phantasm: www.castaliahouse.com/hard-sf-does-not-exist/The PulpRev is coming. 
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Post by deuce on Mar 2, 2017 13:34:46 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 3, 2017 23:38:39 GMT -5
Daddy Warpig agrees that Correia is one of the Godfathers of PulpRev: www.castaliahouse.com/before-the-pulp-revolution/
"It’s not that Larry consciously rebels against arbitrary genre restrictions. It’s that he genuinely doesn’t understand them and violates them as a matter of course. Like a caveman with a pocket calculator, The Big Book Of Genre No-No’s befuddles him, so he beats the infuriating thing against a rock until shiny stuff falls out. Then he takes the shiny stuff and makes something cool."-- Daddy Warpig  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 4, 2017 18:03:35 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. Hey VonK! When I responded before, I never really got into your list of definitions. I'd say they're quite apt. You did a fine job there of summing up. "Retro-Pulp" would very much be what outfits like Pro Se and Black Coat are doing. If not publishing outright pastiches, they are putting out tales generally set during the "Pulp Age". One could call them "nostalgic", but I think they're great. Some of the characters that have been brought back have even been improved, IMO. Razorfist recently did a "lost" radio episode of The Shadow. You also have stuff like what Tim Truman did with the Prowler years back. There's definitely a place for "Retro-Pulp".  "Neo-Pulp" fits what the PulpRev ("Revolution" or "Revival" -- take yer pick) guys are doing, but they also have definite elements of "New Pulp". Niemeyer and Hernstrom would both qualify. "New Pulp" seems to be claimed more by Lansdale and his associates than anybody. One could argue that Correia is in the same boat -- see the Warpig quote above -- but he usually doesn't even worry about labels, though he has described himself as a "pulp writer" now n' then. It really seems to me that Lansdale -- at times -- does "crazy" for crazy's sake, while Correia just doesn't give a damn. He simply mashes things together that he likes. Interesting times.  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 7, 2017 22:24:45 GMT -5
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