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sQ: 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 […]
Embrace The Red Revolution!
Monday , 13, February 2017 Appendix N, Before the Big Three, Pulp Revolution 36 CommentsStrong opinions piss people off. Strong opinions, expressed forcefully, piss people off even more. To those offended, I say this: Campbell, confreres, and successors have—for seventy-nine years—pumped out self-serving propaganda that paints the Pulps as worthless. Constant recitation of a litany of calumnies has succeeded in erasing not only the virtues of the Pulps, but […]
The Great Myth of the Golden Age of Science Fiction
Monday , 6, February 2017 Appendix N, Before the Big Three, Pulp Revolution 65 CommentsHere’s the Great Myth of the Golden Age of Science Fiction: “Science Fiction sucked until the coming of John W. Campbell and the Big Three—Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Together they swept away the puerile garbage of the Pulps and brought about Science Fiction’s Golden Age.” This is, not to put too fine a point on it, […]
Star Wars Stole Pulp
Monday , 30, January 2017 Appendix N, Before the Big Three, Pulp Revolution 51 CommentsHere is the narrative: Science Fiction was a tiny genre, largely ignored by the general public, a niche of a niche, only appealing to teenage boys… until Star Wars. Then, it got big. Star Wars blew up so big, they had to coin new terms to describe it: summer blockbuster. It was so big, it […]