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Jan 01, Skjam! This book was won in a Goodreads giveaway January 1, It never arrived and it is not possible to contact the person who listed the giveaway. View all 3 comments. Unsolicited Press rated it it was amazing Oct 21, Stewart rated it it was amazing Aug 15, Roy Huff rated it it was amazing Dec 22, Frederick Rotzien marked it as to-read Dec 19, Kiara marked it as to-read Dec 19, Haven Gordon marked it as to-read Dec 19, Tosha Holliman marked it as to-read Dec 19, Diane marked it as to-read Dec 19, Florence marked it as to-read Dec 19, Kim Coomey marked it as to-read Dec 19, Katie Harder-schauer marked it as to-read Dec 19, Danika marked it as to-read Dec 19, Ian marked it as to-read Dec 19, Pamela marked it as to-read Dec 20, Philip K Dick famously wrote The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch in six weeks while high on speed, thereby becoming part of the legend which continues to sell millions of books, despite or perhaps because of their frequent clunking literary mishaps.
Adam Christopher might just be out to channel some of that rock'n'roll pulp fiction chic in his debut novel Empire State.
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If the history of the 21st-century pulp fiction revival is ever written, Empire State might well be seen as its starting point. Empire State is a homage to all things pulp, a multi-genre mash-up of a novel that collides fictional tropes such as a literary particle accelerator, while hoping like hell the thing holds together — which on the whole it does quite admirably. And with its sequel, The Age Atomic, joined by three other novels all to be released before , Christopher seems set not just to write pulp fiction dreams, but to live them.
Then there's Chuck Wendig. Some would be satisfied just to be the author of Dinocalypse Now — but not Wendig.
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The American author has built on his growing cult following with the crowd-funded and self-published Atlanta Burns novellas, and the outstanding urban fantasy novel Blackbirds from UK publisher Angry Robot. Wendig's books, which blend noir and urban fantasy tropes with the gritty reality of contemporary America in a unique trailer-trash gothic style, are proof positive that pulp need not lack depth, emotion or originality.
He's also a prolific blogger; an essential criteria for today's ambitious pulp fictioneer, when your readership are only ever a tweet away. The old pulp was born of a world where fiction was the mass home entertainment of the day.
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Its deathknell came with television and all the spectacle that brought to the living room. Video games have now displaced television with even greater spectacle, immersing people in the very fantasy worlds they turned to pulp for a century earlier. The book, at times, seems a poor competitor to the games consoles that dominate home entertainment today. Those little black marks scratched on wood pulp or even on the screen of a Kindle can hardly challenge the spectacle of a quad-core processor projecting at p on a 52 inch widescreen.
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And if the new pulp is not mass entertainment, neither is it great literature. In a world where anyone with a blog and an ebook is a writer, putting yourself up on the pedestal of great literature is a good way to get yourself knocked down again. What makes you better than me, shout the pitchfork wielding mob of self-published Kindle authors as they loom over the prostrate figure of the fallen literary genius. The new pulp looks the mob square in the eye and says, hey, I'm just ordinary folk like you. But I got me this idea for a book about zombie-vampire-ninja-supersoldiers that I thought y'all might enjoy, want to hear it?