Pulp

Pulp fiction can be characterized as "fast-paced, plot-oriented storytelling of a linear nature with clearly defined, larger than life protagonists and antagonists, creative descriptions, clever use of turns of phrase and other aspects of writing that add to the intensity and pacing of the story."

The earliest pulp stories were printed in pulp magazines from 1896 through the 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. Magazines printed on higher quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". Pulp were most often priced at ten cents per mag
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Helen of Wyndhorn
The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Last Stop (The Diamond Knife #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Call Me a Cab
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
Conan: City of the Dead
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
The Magpie Coffin
The Women of Weird Tales
The Heroic Legends Series - Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter (Savage Tales Short Fiction Book 7)
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)
The Man of Bronze (Doc Savage #1)
The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom, #3)
The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Maltese Falcon
The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
Captain Hawklin and the Skyhook Pirates by Charles F. MillhouseCaptain Hawklin and the Underwater Menace by Charles F. MillhouseSpring-heeled Jack and the President's Ring by D.L. MackenzieThe Adventures of Lazarus Gray by Barry ReeseDieselpunk ePulp Showcase by Grant Gardiner
The Best of New Pulp
174 books — 136 voters
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinCharlotte Gray by Sebastian FaulksA Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmThe Alice Network by Kate QuinnCarve Her Name with Pride by R.J. Minney
If You Liked Agent Carter, Try...
193 books — 45 voters

Theocracide by James WymoreAltered Carbon by Richard K. MorganDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickThe Caves of Steel by Isaac AsimovLeviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey
Great Science Fiction Detective Stories
156 books — 77 voters
Soffocare by Chuck PalahniukMeridiano di sangue by Cormac McCarthyLuminal by Isabella SantacroceLa notte che bruciammo Chrome by William GibsonSquartamento by Emil M. Cioran
Basi del Novocarnismo
35 books — 6 voters


Vladimir Nabokov
She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.
Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

Carroll John Daly
His belly was flabby, and it got softer every time I hit it. I hit it often.
Carroll John Daly, Race Williams' Double Date and Other Stories

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