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pulp fiction

A Hidden Cache of Scifi Pulp History

Receiving a large box from your parents generally means something bad: They've cleared out all your stuff from their basement and now you have to find a place for it, or it's a misplaced care package that's only three years past its sell-by date. For one SF fan, however, that package contained the geek motherlode: More than 100 scifi pulp magazines ranging from the 1930s onwards. More »

8:00 AM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,777 views, 16 comments

Latest by Cultmember: Supposedly the top painting was cheaply copied off a photo from an old New Year's Party at Robert Mitchum's place. The only difference is that they omitted the pistol on the other hand due to the infamous Mitchum roulette games more »

retro futurism

A Nerdy Scientist and a Hot Secretary on Mars in 1957

On December 4, 1957, the Disneyland TV show broadcast “Mars and Beyond,” a 53-minute exploration of the Red Planet’s history and future, as well as its impact on pop culture. A nerdy scientist, a hot secretary with a secret, and a Martian robot in tennis shoes (a la Warner Brother’s Marvin the Martian), plus awesome animation, and a surprising twist at the end make the show’s parody of pulp science fiction well worth a look. More »

12:49 PM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Lynn Peril
1,976 views, 8 comments

Latest by RAHfanboy: @Miranda Kali: Paul Frees (Boris Badenov) was the narrator, so that might have brought R & B to mind. I don't have a link to a video, so that's the best I can do. more »

art

Luchadores... In Space!

Here's the cover illustration for the story "D-3 Base De Monstruos" by Spanish artist Jose Luis Sampedro Macias, who drew dozens of covers for the pulp magazine Luchadores del Espacio, plus tons of pulp paperbacks, in the 1950s. Despite (or maybe because of) being unable to see the work of American artists of the time, Jose Luis brings his own bright style to the pulp-art standbys of bug-eyed monsters, women and flying saucers. His work features prominently an amazing gallery of 1950s Spanish pulp science fiction covers, uploaded by El Estratografico. A few more of our favorites, after the jump. More »

4:30 PM on Tue May 20 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
951 views, 4 comments

Latest by russdanger: It's good to see a woman's space suit design that compliments the T&A regions. Breast-separation is a critical factor in surviving the unforgiving vacuum of outer space... more »

rant

Newest Book Covers Don't "Scream Scifi"

There's an interesting discussion going on over at Media Bistro's Galleycat blog about when science fiction books should have dignified covers that look less pulpy and "skiffy." Case in point: Clifford Simak's The Way Station, which has had a host of lurid covers over the years (see left) and now has gotten reissued with a nice pastoral grasslands scene, which looks more like a Willa Cather novel. Click through to see the new, classier cover, plus a selection of the old pulpy covers. More »

1:02 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,287 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: Some sci-fi covers feature spaceships that look like their were drawn by a nine year old. Alistair Reynolds stuff for example. Cant they pay some photoshop junkie to do something that actually looks alright? more »

rant

The Secret Scifi Love Affair Between Almodovar And Spillane

When I was in college, I had two obsessions: art movies and pulp novels. The art movies were everything foreign or indie, from Almodovar to Egoyan to Greenaway. The pulp novels included some science fiction, but also a bunch of Mickey Spillane and Richard Stark. They were opposites, high and low culture, but they actually had more in common with each other than they did with "mainstream" movies and books of the 1990s. And they both had something to teach me about science fiction. More »

2:30 PM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,468 views, 11 comments

Latest by jinchoung: alphaville? more »

retro futurism

The Great Miss Universe Scandal of 2381

Behold Ed Emshwiller's magnificent cover for the February 1959 issue of Future Science Fiction. Yes, it gives away the ending of "You Do Something To Me," Calvin M. Knox's story of the "the white-skinned hideous horror from a distant world," but isn't it worth it? (Trivia moment: Calvin M. Knox is a pseudonym of Robert Silverberg.)

12:40 PM on Wed Jan 9 2008
By peril
1,100 views, 5 comments

retro futurism

It's the Far Future of 1992 and Hot, Dominant Women Rule the World!

He must escape or die.
. . . Almost instantly the shrill sound of a whistle broke to his right and a street guard stepped from a doorway, struggling to free her rifle from her garments.
"Male Pig!" she screamed. "Halt!"
Welcome to the world of The Feminists, a pulp novel published in 1971. It's the story of cubicle drone Keith Montalvo, who has been caught consensually slipping the pink torpedo to a female co-worker. Unfortunately, it's 1992 and the Big-Sisterish "Committee" has outlawed all unauthorized heterosex, and his crime is punishable by death. Peek below for the cover in its full, unexpurgated glory.
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12:40 PM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By peril
6,905 views, 51 comments

Latest by ghost: Oh I NEED to get ahold of a copy of this and make people read it. (sorry bad habit. recently I started to force people into Siebenkäs and Wollstonecraft's letters) but then I'm afraid that people, who I want to convert to more »

league of extraordinary gentlemen

Must Read: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Must-read graphic novels are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-see is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale.

Title: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Date: 1999-present

Vitals: A bunch of pulpy public-domain characters from 100 years ago form a super team to fight Professor Moriarty, Fu Manchu, and the Martian invaders from War of the Worlds. The result? Manages to be campy and literary. Call it camperary, maybe.

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11:54 PM on Sun Sep 30 2007
By charliejane
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