Long before TV, when movies were silent and radio was rarely heard, the pulp magazines burst onto the scene. The cheaply produced magazines offered an eager populace with a pasttime that carried them to far–away places on adventures far beyond their everyday lives.
Those stories live on in the brittle pages of the aging pulp magazines. Collected on these virtual pages of ThePulp.Net are articles and information about the pulps and scores of links to sites with even more details.
If you missed this year’s PulpCon, or want to relive portions, we’ve got your ticket. Visit the revamped Pulp Companion to listen to recodings of the two guests of honor presentations, a panel discussion on pulp collecting and a word from PulpCon co-founder Rusty Hevelin. Also, listen to an interview with the illustrator of the new book Doc Savage: The Lost Radio Scripts of Lester Dent. Read more...
Is the Web hastening the end of the printed pulp fanzine? Are Web sites taking the place of the fanzine? How fair is it to the zine publishers? Read more...
The alt.pulp FAQ also has been reformatted and expanded. Win Scott Eckert has provided an exceptional expansion on the entry concerning Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton family. Click over and have your questions answered.
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• Updated Yellowed Perils.
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