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Post by deuce on Apr 19, 2017 7:47:31 GMT -5
I stopped listening to the Wildcards I audio book. It seems once the stories got out of the post-WWII era and into more modern times, the writers just had to get political. I started listening to GRRM's own contribution, "Shell Games" and found it to be pretty damn boring, on top of being politically motivated/focused. Despite what he may have grown up reading, Martin simply is not a "pulp" writer in any sense of the word. If he was, Big Publishing drones wouldn't fall all over him the way they do. By the same measure, Larry Correia can only find work at Baen, despite selling truckloads of books. Martin says and does things that Big Publishing really, really likes. Basically by definition, that means he's not pulp. On the other hand, while not exactly "New Pulp"/PulpRev, the Lyonesse Project appears to be moving in the right direction. They are looking mostly to Dragon Award nominees -- not Hugo or Nebula nominees -- for their writers. The Dragons are very rapidly becoming the SFF awards "for the rest of us."  |
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Post by deuce on Apr 19, 2017 11:25:28 GMT -5
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BREAKING NEWS<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<PulpRevvers like Brian Niemeier and other fellow travelers are doing a big book giveaway as we speak. Get in on it now. Details here: www.brianniemeier.com/2017/04/wrongthink-sci-fi-giveaway.htmlThis really is a great deal. Find out about all the good stuff that Big Publishing doesn't want you to know about, 
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Post by deuce on Apr 19, 2017 20:44:07 GMT -5
Crimson Streets in an online mag that's peddling some good, two-fisted pulp/noir fiction. Here's the link: www.crimsonstreets.com/about-us/
Pulp was not – is not – a genre, it is a style of writing, a feeling, which at its epicenter is the anti-"literature", stories for Joe and Jane Six Pack, something to read quickly on the train or bus on the way home from the plant or the office. The pulps, in their heyday, featured fast paced adventure stories of aviators, hard-boiled detectives, explorers, horrors, mad scientists, and masked avengers fighting crime on the dark streets.
It is our goal to bring pulp fiction back. This is literature for the masses; so if you’re looking for spit and polish you probably want to stop reading here.
We conceived Crimson Streets as an over the top homage to the pulp detective and adventure magazines of the 1930s through 1950s. Where the detectives are more hard-boiled, the dames are leggier, the scientists are madder, and the horrors are more horrible. Where square jawed heroes fight evil national socialists, hard-boiled detectives are betrayed by femme fatales, and the night is filled with murder, street crime, sex, and violence.
-- Robert and Janet Carden, Crimson StreetsThe PulpRev is coming. 
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Post by paulmc on Apr 20, 2017 9:22:32 GMT -5
A sneak update on SKELOS #4, courtesy of Cliff Biggers;
I am very pleased to announce that my short story "Postcards from Lovecraft" has been accepted for inclusion in Skelos #4. Even better, my story will appear alongside the work of my friends Amanda DeWees, Darrell Grizzle, Charles Rutledge, and Anthony Taylor. Good news is always better when shared with good company!
Given those contributors, I think the weird/horror slant will be strong with this issue.
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Post by deuce on Apr 20, 2017 20:32:00 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Apr 21, 2017 9:35:28 GMT -5
PulpRev author, Jon Mollison, on why he thinks the movement has what it takes: seagullrising.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-measure-of-success.html
[Somebody on the internet] pointed out that there might be hundreds or thousands of lonely writers off in the wilds of self-publishing just doing their little thing because it feels right. He wanted to know what made the Pulp Revolution so special.
Easy: a winner's mindset.
Everybody I interact with in the Pulp Revolution has a winner's mindset. They are relentlessly positive individuals who channel their energy into their work and into each other. They don't just work alone, tossing stories into the cold, harsh marketplace. They have the brains to look back at what worked with the pulps, to take them apart, and put them back together again. They have the desire to dig down into the roots of sci-fi, even the obscure little off shoots, to learn more about them.
The Pulp Revolution has gone from a handful of people to a mob in less than a year. Just imagine how much further it's going to go in the next year, or two, or ten. And keep imagining it, because that's how winners think about the future.
-- Jon MollisonAwesome graphic courtesy of Mollison.  |
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Post by deuce on Apr 22, 2017 13:15:07 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Apr 26, 2017 10:52:23 GMT -5
Like a lot of the "New Pulp" small presses, Bold Venture Press publishes a mix of pulp reprints, Retro-Pulp and Neo-Pulp. They publish fiction from Gary Lovisi, CJ Henderson (RIP) and Richard Lupoff among many others. Jim Steranko has done some art for them as well (see below): www.boldventurepress.com/index.html  |
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Post by deuce on Apr 27, 2017 19:28:03 GMT -5
P. Alexander, editor and publisher of Cirsova magazine, talks about writers sending him pitches and what his editorial policy is: cirsova.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/you-cant-judge-a-pulp-by-its-pitch/
Pulp is much more than its pitch. A lot of pulp stories, when you try to distill their plots down to a sentence or two, come across as the wildest, most off-the-wall gonzo nonsense you can dream up. Except when you actually read the stories, they’re not only internally consistent, they often take themselves and the wild situations therein fairly seriously. While there might be some humor, the elements in the stories are usually not played for laughs. And I think that’s part of where we differ from some of the “Retro-Pulp”/”New Pulp” stuff, in that we’re not using the aesthetic for kitsch or playing it for laughs.
There may be a mistaken notion about the Pulp Revolution that to them Pulp is like some kind of Mountain Dew commercial, skiing down a mountain, chased by laser wolves, and screaming “PULP!” A lot of us make jokes about that sort of thing, but that’s more about online banter than it is the serious business of writing and critiquing stories.
-- P. AlexanderThe PulpRev is coming.  |
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Post by deuce on Apr 29, 2017 11:36:32 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 5, 2017 12:11:05 GMT -5
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Post by paulmc on May 8, 2017 15:53:51 GMT -5
And the Kickstarter for Issue #1 has started; |
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Post by paulmc on May 10, 2017 11:15:16 GMT -5
PULP MODERN are starting their second volume with a return to their roots. "This is Pulp Modern's second act. Gone are the experiments, the whims, the tangents taken in the journal's previous incarnation. The new Pulp Modern will be very straightforward--...the only thing that matters is story. Pulp Modern was the first journal to combine genres and we're going back to that mission."www.amazon.com/dp/B0719785B7 |
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Post by deuce on May 11, 2017 8:21:48 GMT -5
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Post by paulmc on May 11, 2017 9:39:09 GMT -5
I'd been lumping this stuff under other wishlists but there are enough out there now that I think I need a wishlist just for magazines/ezines.
That's a GOOD thing.
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