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)
Murder Island (Doc Savage, #2)
The Shadow (The Shadow, #1)
Destroy All Monsters (Reckless, #3)
Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)
Lowdown Road
Gun Honey, Vol. 2: Blood for Blood
Stormbringer (The Elric Saga, #2)
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Undoomed Man
The Heroic Legends Series - Kull: The Talons of Deep Time
Conan: City of the Dead
Red Sonja: Consumed (Red Sonja #1)
Last Stop (The Diamond Knife #1)
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
The Heroic Legends Series - Conan: The Green God of Leng
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 Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Fu Manchu #1)
Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar #1)
The Bloody Crown of Conan (Conan the Cimmerian, #2)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth WeinCharlotte Gray by Sebastian FaulksA Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmThe Alice Network by Kate QuinnThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
If You Liked Agent Carter, Try...
193 books — 45 voters
The Complete Chronicles of Conan by Robert E. HowardElric of Melniboné by Michael MoorcockSwords and Deviltry by Fritz LeiberLegend by David GemmellThe Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard
Sword and Sorcery
621 books — 392 voters

Critical Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the Living” by Emre GurgenThe Nightclerk by Stephen SchneckTwilight Candelabra by William J. CraddockLogan's Run by William F. NolanNog by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Mmm Mmm Paperbacks
133 books — 14 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
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
175 books — 136 voters


China Miéville
Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a romance and I know romance is crap. ...more
China Miéville

Chuck Palahniuk
La prima regola del Fight Club è che non si parla del Fight Club. La seconda regola del Fight Club è che non si parla del Fight Club. La terza regola del Fight Club è che quando qualcuno dice basta o non reagisce più, anche se sta solo facendo finta, il combattimento è finito. La quarta regola del Fight Club è solo due per ogni combattimento. La quinta regola del Fight Club è un combattimento per volta. La sesta regola del Fight Club è che si combatte senza camicia e senza scarpe. La settima reg ...more
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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