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sWe know Sci-Fi is in the ICU, stabbed through the kidneys with a poisoned blade, barely clinging to life. Thanks to the brilliant work of yours truly, Doctor Warpig, we even know who shivved it with a shank. But how do we save it? Let the Doctor show you the way.
Welcome back, true believers! It’s time for Part Two of my magnum opus! Doctor Warpig is in the house, and it’s time to play Diagnose that Disease! Let’s start with eradicating some fuzzy wishful thinking. “Well, people just don’t read anymore!” Dan Brown argues otherwise. As does JK Rowling. Also Stephenie Meyer. Fact is, people […]
People complain that I only pick on Blue SF. Fair cop, especially as it’s not the only form of SF that damaged the genre. EVERY age after the Pulp-driven Golden Age did its part to drive the audience away, and put Science Fiction on life support. Silver Age: Removed heroics and adventure. Bronze Age: Removed […]
When Fantasy & Science Fiction LOST ITS DAMN MIND
Wednesday , 8, March 2017 Appendix N, Pulp Revolution 12 CommentsSuppose, at one point in time, Hollywood suddenly decided that the only fiction movies worth making were fictional documentaries—documentaries about events that never occurred. A little license was granted in what fictional events could be at the core, but after that ONLY STRICT REALISM. In specific, Action Movies were ABSOLUTELY VERBOTEN. And this decision was […]
Before the Pulp Revolution: The Mountain Who Writes!
Saturday , 4, March 2017 Pulp Revolution 7 CommentsThere are two kinds of people in the world: the desperately lonely and benighted souls who drift through life unsatisfied and unhappy, and those who read Larry Correia. Larry isn’t part of the Pulp Revolution, and I’d bet money he’s never heard of Cirsova magazine (or even Appendix N), but his writing definitely prefigured the Pulp […]
Sometimes you go to get your truck back, and end up shaking the pillars of Heaven. Hey, it happens, even if you didn’t mean it to. It happened to me.
“Hard” Science Fiction DOES NOT EXIST. It’s a delusion. A phantasm. A phantasmagorical illusion. It’s a lie Hard SF writers and audiences mutually agreed to, the original “consensual hallucination”.
I have had a vision of the future. A dark vision. A chilling vision. A vision sent BACK THROUGH TIME from myself, a few years hence. A vision of the time WHEN THE PULP REVOLUTION RULES THE EARTH! I am shaken. I am shuddering. I am shocked. Allow me a moment or two to regain […]
Bro, Do You Even Read: The Movie
Friday , 24, February 2017 Appendix N, Before the Big Three, Pulp Revolution 64 CommentsThere’s bit of a push right now for some of us to moderate our tone. The fear is that we’re going drive away potential readers… at the very time when this blog is having it’s best month ever in terms of traffic. The concern is that we might lose our rep for being builders… at […]
The Big Three… Catastrophic Errors
Friday , 24, February 2017 Appendix N, Before the Big Three, Pulp Revolution 41 CommentsCampbellian Science Fiction stories—alternately “men with screwdrivers” or Blue SF—are provably inferior to the Fantasy & Science Fiction stories of the Pulps. Campbell is the Silver Age, the Pulps the Golden Age. This is not because the writers and editors of the Silver Age sucked. They had talent, skill, and imagination in abundance. Unfortunately, what […]
Q: What is the most important thing in storytelling? A: The storytelling. Period. Any other answer is sheerest nonsense.
Come children, let me tell you a tale… There was once an age, a Golden Age, an age of wonder and delight, of adventure and heroics, of creativity and imagination unbound… an age undreamt of by modern man, an age forgotten and buried, like hidden treasures beneath the sands of Ægypt. And into this Golden […]