Olga Tokarczuk stands as a literary giant. Her latest masterpiece, “The Books of Jacob,” further solidifies her position as a brilliant storyteller and observer of the human condition. In this sprawling historical novel, which takes…
Years ago I was a magazine editor. Or I tried to be one. After the first issue didn’t generate much of a profit, I decided to keep in going with a smaller and smaller budget….
IN THE PULP FICTION TRENCHES: MY TUMULTUOUS LITERARY CAREER By LEN LEVINSON (Rough Edges Press, 2022) There’s a Far Side cartoon by Gary Larson that I can’t seem to find. It shows the devil on…
Beat to a Pulp: Hardboiled edited by David Cranmer and Scott D Parker “Hardboiled” fiction has been popular since the post WW2 era. Every since returning GI’s started coming home after the Good War, there…
Pagan Passions by Randall Garrett and Larry Harris Randall Garrett was a post-WWII science fiction writer who created a number of fictional words for which he is little remembered. He was also one of the…
The Chloe Files #1: Ashes to Ashes by Howard Hopkins Chloe is a 5’6″ 30ish former stripper who hunts down demonic creatures in New Salem. She and her fiance Arly, a detective in the New…
Pulp Ink edited by Nigel Bird and Chris Rhatigan It may be that the anthology format will be the best one for e-publishing. At least with the newer generation of pulp writers, this seems to…
Echo of Guilt by Phyllis Paul Echo of Guilt has a very dense, literate style. This is not an easy novel to read, which makes me wonder why it was marketed in the US as…
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham This is the story of Stanton Carlisle, a carnivalsideshow mentalist, who decides to strike out for the big time bygoing into the spiritualism racket. With his knowledge of humannature…
Martians, Go Home (1955) by Frederic Brown This has to be one of the most hilarious science fiction novels ever written. Frederic Brown (1906-72), who had spoofed space opera with What Mad Universe in 1949,…
