Recycled Pulp

by John Helfers (Editor), Cat Rambo, Phaedra Weldon

The old becomes new again as fifteen talented authors go back to the lurid pulp titles of yesteryear through today’s rich, nuanced storytelling. Enjoy original tales featuring rebel angels fighting a heavenly enforcement squad, a cop whose life might depend on ordering the right deli sandwich, and a wizard who has just three days to pay off the loan on his tower or lose his very soul. Whatever your taste in stories, Recycled Pulp is sure to have something that will amaze, surprise, and delight you.

“…a unique collection 15 tales worthy of the Fiction River name. … Don’t miss Recycled Pulp for a great set of unique and fast-paced tales of the imagination!”
—Astro Guyz

Table of Contents
“The Revolt of the Philosophers of Fomalhaut” by Phaedra Weldon
“Marvelous Contrivances of the Heart” by Cat Rambo
“The Flower of the Tabernacle” by Annie Reed
“Lost in the Tarnished Cube” by Thomas K. Carpenter
“Crypt of the Metal Ghouls” by Angela Penrose
“The Imperfect Otter Empire” by Dayle A. Dermatis
“The Unknowable Mansion of the Night” by Sandra M. Odell
“The Portal of Wrong Love” by Dean Wesley Smith
“Sacred Poet from the Future” by Kelly Cairo
“Swamp of the Prehistoric Clan” by Christy Fifield
“The Magnificent Citadel” by Rebecca M. Senese
“Night of the Dancing Champions” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
“The Delicatessen from Beyond the Monolith” by Lisa Silverthorne
“Prism of the Crab Gods” by Kelly Washington
“The Gleaming Crater” by Thea Hutcheson

Genres: Fantasy

260 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 2015

Reviews

[Carly Kirk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Holy wow! I truly enjoyed each and every short story in this collection! And that's saying a lot, usually there's at least one or two stories in a collection that I'm not fond of, but each one of these diverse stories was engrossing - in their own ways... Can't stress enough how good this collection is, definitely worth purchasing. I know I'll be rereading this book and I'm definitely going to check out the author's other works.

[Kimberly Hughes · Rating 2 out of 5]

Apparently giving authors pulp titles and asking them to write stories based on the titles just doesn't work. There are a few good ones but the rest are rather lackluster. Compared to the rest of the Fiction River series, this one falls flat.

[Charl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Love the variety and quality of all the Fiction Rivers.

[David Macpherson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really dig this Fiction River series but this one didn't work for me. It just had too many clinkers for me, and the last few stories in the book really fell flat for me. There were a couple great stories, but they couldnt hold up the whole anthology. I loved the idea for this one though, they were given an over the top Pulp title and then they had to create a nonpulp fiction story out of it. Those that succeeded were great, but then the clinkers. Whoa. But on writing this, I love that they tried a weird concept, respect the attempt.