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Post by Von K on Mar 9, 2017 14:25:57 GMT -5
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. Thanks Deuce, I guess there's a little overlap between them too. I like what I've read of Larry Correia's stuff so far. His first book Monster Hunter's International is a great urban fantasy action horror yarn and very well written for a first novel. I'm hoping to dig a little deeper into some of his Grimnoir sometime soon. The Best of MHN section of his blog over at www.monsterhunternation.com contains a lot of useful advice. It's interesting to read the story of how he developed the MHI concept. |
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Post by deuce on Mar 11, 2017 17:50:33 GMT -5
" 'Literary' fiction -- books about shallow narcissists coming to terms with dying polar bears via hate-sex -- is outselling science fiction."
-- Brian Niemeier, PulpRev author and Dragon Award-winnerNiemeier has the Amazon numbers to back it up: www.brianniemeier.com/2017/03/paging-dr-warpig.htmlThings don't have to be this way, y'know. The PulpRev is coming.  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 13, 2017 14:07:49 GMT -5
Jeffro Johnson, author of Appendix N and PulpRev provocateur, has his list of the best short SFF tales of 2016: www.castaliahouse.com/the-best-short-science-fiction-fantasy-of-2016/"Short fiction rocks. And with gatekeepers finding themselves with significantly less influence and control, we’re set to see a market correction that will create a return to the kind of vibrancy and diversity that fantasy and science fiction could take for granted in the Twenties and Thirties.
If big time IMPORTANT authors that write for a living are too busy to set things right in this particular sphere, then it will be enthusiastic and prolific amateurs that step in to do the job. Either way, it’s happening."-- Jeffro Johnson  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 15, 2017 9:32:54 GMT -5
Henry Vogel is an indie author who considers himself part of the PulpRev. He's also been doing pretty well for himself -- but you wouldn't know since he's not with a Big Publishing House: www.henryvogelwrites.com/Here's a quote from Vogel:
"When I began writing my planetary romance series (there’s a hint, right there, that I don’t worry about what people claim will sell), I decided I wanted steam-driven airships and swords.
Can I offer a realistic justification for those choices? Well, maybe… The civilization is a long-lost human colony that lost almost all tech when the colony ship crashed. I can sort of claim that steam power and lighter than air ships are viable for an otherwise Renaissance-level civilization. The truth is, I came up with this rationalization after the first novel was completed.
I’ve never bothered explaining any of that in the books because–and this is the real point–swords and airships are cool! Those who get that enjoy the novels." |
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Post by deuce on Mar 16, 2017 16:47:17 GMT -5
Daddy "Doctor" Warpig has diagnosed prose Science Fiction in its current state and declared it dead, or nearly so: www.castaliahouse.com/so-you-killed-science-fiction-now-what/Whodunit? WHO killed SF? www.castaliahouse.com/so-who-killed-science-fiction/"Look, folks, you can write whatever you want. But if you set out to offend normies (or bore or insult them), then normies won’t buy your books. Or, after a while, anybody else’s—it’s too difficult to pick through the boring, offensive, or insulting stories to find the gems."
-- Daddy Warpig Doc Warpig has a prescription to bring SF back from the dead: www.castaliahouse.com/who-can-save-science-fiction/"SF 'Fandom' is irrelevant. They won’t read Pulp Rev works or talk about them, except to sneer.
We’re building our own separate scene, with our own separate body of fans.
We’re the future, not them."
-- Daddy Warpig/Jasyn JonesThe PulpRev is coming.  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 20, 2017 16:57:18 GMT -5
Bryce A. Beattie is starting up a magazine in the pulp tradition. If you have an exciting story to tell, send it to him here: www.storyhack.com/the-magazine/The PulpRev is coming.  |
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Post by deuce on Mar 21, 2017 10:37:54 GMT -5
There’s a scene in the film Ed Wood in which the title character is reading a review of a stage play that he wrote and directed. The reviewer blasts the play, saying that the writing, acting, and direction were all horrible. At the very end of the review the critic grudgingly admits that at least the costumes were authentic.
Later on Ed Wood quotes that review, claiming “So-and-so praised my historic verisimilitude!”
That’s kind of the feel I get from people who pride themselves on being “Hard SF”. If what you feel proudest of is breaking fewer laws of physics than the average SF writer, maybe you need to reexamine your priorities.-- Misha Burnett, PulpRev author
[In 1980s "Hard" SF] there’s a complete absence of human interest or relatable characters. In some cases, the absence of humanity is literal: all the characters are genderless AI’s, alien hive minds, or some variety of post-human.-- Fenris Wulf, author of Loki's ChildThe PulpRev is coming. 
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Post by deuce on Mar 23, 2017 13:09:32 GMT -5
From Sanjulian. Just because.  |
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Post by Jason Aiken on Mar 23, 2017 13:11:50 GMT -5
From Sanjulian. Just because. Sweet! Is that from any particular story? |
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Post by deuce on Mar 24, 2017 14:57:19 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 25, 2017 9:30:04 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 27, 2017 20:55:51 GMT -5
Jon Mollison is a PulpRev author. His new ebook, Sudden Rescue, is a ton of fun. It's sorta "Han Solo -- or Jack Burton -- versus the Cylons/Borg". www.castaliahouse.com/review-sudden-rescue-by-jon-mollison/Here's what Jon has to say about the "Hard" SF Poindexters who've been the taste-makers and gatekeepers of SF for decades -- and he name-checks James Tiberius Kirk:
Of course the chosen terms themselves connote values. “Hard” is difficult and strong and solid. “Soft” is easy and weak and ephemeral. Do you want to write strong works or weak ones? To ask the question is to answer it. Imagine if we decided to use different language to describe the two ends of the spectrum. Would the Hard Buds object to referring to their preferred style of fiction as “Grey” and the other end “Colorful”? This is how even the language is corrupted to influence readers towards thinking about the literal nuts and bolts of engineering instead of the figurative nuts and bolts of heroism.
Those who shrug and say, “Well that’s just how it is,” are failing to recognize the poison-pill sci-fi was fed. Some do it through malice, some through laziness, but all have the same effect. They water down the heart and soul of science fiction in pursuit of a bland and meaningless logic.
You Hard Buds of SF can keep your Spock-like love of logic, me and Jimmy T. are going to head on down to Ten Forward and find some green alien princesses to make out with.
~ Jon Mollison ~ |
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Post by deuce on Mar 29, 2017 13:30:02 GMT -5
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Post by paulmc on Mar 29, 2017 13:54:54 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 30, 2017 20:29:48 GMT -5
" 'Literary' fiction -- books about shallow narcissists coming to terms with dying polar bears via hate-sex -- is outselling science fiction."
-- Brian Niemeier, PulpRev author and Dragon Award-winnerNiemeier has the Amazon numbers to back it up: www.brianniemeier.com/2017/03/paging-dr-warpig.htmlThe Pulp Archivist has even more stats and analysis of the sad economic state of present-day prose SF: thepulparchvist.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-worst-is-yet-to-come.htmlThis is what happens when you let your genre be guided by the doctrines of "Hard" SF and Howells' Literary Realism. Things don't have to stay like this. The PulpRev is coming.  |
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