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When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good became too wide and depressing to tolerate, I'd turn to my other great love, which was pulp adventure fiction. Despite the fact that [he] would have had nothing but scorn and loathing for all of those violent and garish magazines, there was a sort of prevailing morality in them that I'm sure he would have responded to. The world of Doc Savage and The Shadow was one of absolute values, where what was good was never in the slightest doubt and where what was evil inevitably suffered some fitting punishment. The notion of good and justice espoused by Lamont Cranston with his slouch hat and blazing automatics seemed a long way from that of the fierce and taciturn old man I remembered sitting up alone into the Montana night with no company save his bible, but I can't help feeling that if the two had ever met they'd have found something to talk about. For my part, all those brilliant and resourceful sleuths and heroes offered a glimpse of a perfect world where morality worked the way it was to. Nobody in Doc Savage's world ever killed themselves except thwarted kamikaze assassins or enemy spies with cyanide capsules. Which world would you rather live in, if you had the choice?
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fiction
morality
pulp-fiction
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Alan Moore |
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Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.
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los-angeles
pulp-fiction
noir
noir-fiction
french
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James Ellroy |
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In 's ... it was in that novel that, for the first time, I learned Neptune had a satellite named Triton... It was from that I first learned there was a Mato Grosso area in the Amazon basin. It was from and other stories by that I first heard of relativity. The pleasure of reading about such things in the dramatic and fascinating form of science fiction gave me a push toward science that was irresistible. It was science fiction that made me want to be a scientist strongly enough to eventually make me one. That is not to say that science fiction stories can be completely trusted as a source of specific knowledge... However, the misguidings of science fiction can be unlearned. Sometimes the unlearning process is not easy, but it is a low price to pay for the gift of fascination over science.
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science
golden-age-science-fiction
golden-age-sf
pulp-fiction
science-fiction
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Isaac Asimov |
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You know what pulp is, Mr. Tallis? It's the flesh of a luscious fruit, mashed down into an incredible, half liquid richness. so saturated with flavor that it fills your whole body, not just your mouth.
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reading
writing
pop-culture
pulp-fiction
stories
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Mike Carey & Peter Gross |
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"That was enough dialogue for a few pages - he had to get into some fast, red-hot action.
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writing
fiction-writing
pulp-fiction
pulp
writers
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Cornell Woolrich |
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"His agility surprised Phoebe Ash. She saw the plaster cast on his right leg. Funny messages in ink--"Go break the left one, tiger!"--had been written on the off-white plaster."
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science-fiction-romance
pulp-fiction
science-fiction
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Ed Lynskey |
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The Quetzal Motel was a father/daughter operation, and they hurt for money but with just enough to stay in groceries. But who could tell? After tonight, their fortunes might perk up. It was better to look on the bright side. She took a deep breath and plunged back into Philip Nostrum's realm of futuristic doings.
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science-fiction-romance
pulp-fiction
science-fiction
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Ed Lynskey |
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Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.
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walter-kaylin
hard-boiled
men-s-adventure
pulp-fiction
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Mario Puzo |