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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The Perfect Assassin (Doc Savage, #1)
Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Conan: City of the Dead
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
Solomon Kane: The Hound of God
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Lowdown Road
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Talons of Deep Time
Solomon Kane: The Banquet of Souls: The Heroic Legends Series
The Heroic Legends Series - Bran Mak Morn: Red Waves of Slaughter (Savage Tales Short Fiction Book 7)
Conan: Terror from the Abyss: The Heroic Legends Series
A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)
Tarzan of the Apes (Tarzan, #1)
The Gods of Mars (Barsoom #2)
The Man of Bronze (Doc Savage #1)
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #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)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #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)
The Thane's Daughter by John SpearmanFitzDuncan by John SpearmanSwords and Deviltry by Fritz LeiberThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. HowardElric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
Best Sword and Sorcery
188 books — 228 voters
The First Paper Cut by Camille CabreraL.A. Confidential by James EllroyMy Dirty California by Jason MosbergThe Stand In by Brad GeagleyHollywood Tough by Stephen J. Cannell
Best Hollywood Mystery (fiction)
20 books — 25 voters

Son of the Black Sword by Larry CorreiaStoryHack Action & Adventure, Issue 0 by David J. WestThune's Vision by Schuyler HernstromCirsova by P. AlexanderFor Steam And Country by Jon Del Arroz
Pulp Revolution
71 books — 28 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

Lost Horizon by James HiltonThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Classic Adventure - 1850-1950
42 books — 7 voters
1984 by George OrwellBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyStar Maker by Olaf StapledonFoundation by Isaac AsimovAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Best Classic SF Novels (1930-1950)
64 books — 92 voters


If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be.
Don Hutchison, The Great Pulp Heroes

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you
Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

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