The Soviet Hobbit. "Comrades! Pants are a reckless Western decadence…" pic.twitter.com/zLUiK4pRyy
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) November 7, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: November 07, 2019 at 02:28PM
Soviet mobile tech. Perfect for accessing Soviet Facebook – it has less propaganda than the Western one… pic.twitter.com/P8WK75ipRe
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) November 7, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: November 07, 2019 at 02:42PM
Soviet.
Nuclear.
Zeppelins.Three words that always inspire confidence… #ThursdayThoughts pic.twitter.com/RaCNeS9vq8
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) November 7, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: November 07, 2019 at 02:30PM
The problem was the US sci-fi magazine market had both grown and matured during the war years. Writers such as Robert Heinlein and E.E. Smith had brought a more thoughtful and harder-edged style to the genre. American audiences now expected quality as well as quantity. pic.twitter.com/apcBOSgy32
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 24, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: October 24, 2019 at 09:36AM
London, 1950. The war has ended, but austerity still remained – not least in the thin gruel of available science fiction. So step forward one man (actually two), one publisher and one artist to change all that.
This is the story of Vargo Statten and Scion Science Fiction… pic.twitter.com/yGk0xT0JN9
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 24, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: October 24, 2019 at 09:36AM
Are you writing a sci-fi or fantasy novel? Are you struggling to choose a title for it?
Well good news! I've just analysed the titles of 1,500 DAW sci-fi and fantasy novels, and I think I've found the secret. Come with me… #WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/sjk1hEua3p
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 23, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: October 23, 2019 at 11:38AM
Another fact file, another quiz, more photos, a colouring page … on and on until they'd filled 100 pages as cheaply as they could.
That was the problem with TV annuals: they were licenced by companies that had nothing to do with the show… pic.twitter.com/opw8XixPsF
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 18, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: October 18, 2019 at 10:52AM
The first novel written on a word processor was Bomber, published by Len Deighton in 1970. Deighton had an 91 kg leased IBM MT72 carefully winched into his London home where he spent over a year composing his story. #WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/9mepObDuM3
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 16, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: October 16, 2019 at 03:58AM
The Brain-Bats of Venus, by Basil Wolverton. Mr Mystery comic, 1952. pic.twitter.com/QgGb41uYNM
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 11, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: October 11, 2019 at 03:22PM
The devil is in the detail…
In Satan's Realm, by Edgar C Blum. Rand McNally & co, 1899. pic.twitter.com/wUuPNTzk9e
— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) October 9, 2019
from http://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian
on: October 09, 2019 at 01:12PM