#Pulp Adventures

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Pulp Adventures #44

I was nosing around the web this morning and learned a story of mine was published in Pulp Adventures #44.

The title is “Burning Bright.” It is a gothic mystery set in 1930s Indiana. If you’re interested in purchasing a copy, you can do so at Bold Venture’s website.

I plan to do a Fun Facts post in a few days.

I hope you all have a good weekend!

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'Avengers of the Moon' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Avengers of the Moon' Book Review By Ron Fortier

AVENGERS OF THE MOON (A Captain Future Novel) By Allen Steele Tor Books – Pub 2017 300 pages

In the early part of 1939, veteran sci-fi pulp writer Edmond Hamilton met with Leo Margulies, Better Publication’s editorial director, to discuss the creation of a new title, Captain Future. The lead character of Curt Newton, a super-scientist who lives on the moon and goes by the name Captain Future. The original idea for the character may have come from Mort Weisinger. Captain Future’s companions in the series included an enormously strong robot named Grag, an android named Otho, and the brain of Simon Wright, Newton’s mentor. Joan Randall, Newton’s girlfriend, was also a regular character

Margulies announced the new magazine at the first-ever World Science Fiction Convention held in New York in July 1939. The first issue, edited by Weisinger, appeared in January of the following year. It would last for seventeen issues and is still today considered one of the finest hero pulps ever produced. Still old heroes never die and in 2017, sci-fi author Allen Steele took it up upon himself to revive the series and thus write brand new adventures of Captain Future and the Futuremen.

It appears (and we could be wrong) that he’s written four, this being the first. Of course, Steele could have merely reinvented the entire concept given us new characters, and been unimpeded by what Hamilton had done. Instead, to our delirious delight, he merely adapted the originals to work in an era compatible with our current knowledge of science and space exploration. This is a full-blown origin story built on a Hamilton tale that was only hinted at in the magazine stories. The Futuremen are all here, and Steele has given them unique personalities as are classic Captain Future villains from the pulp days.

In “Avengers of the Moon,” a young Curt Newton is after the man who murdered his parents. With the aid of the Brain, Otho, and Grag, his hunt leads him to uncover a nest of radicals plotting a revolution on Mars against the Solar Coalition. Steele’s pacing is perfect and if you love old-fashioned space operas, it is high time you met Captain Future. For the record, we found out copy in a second-hand bookstore. It’s the kind of treasure any pulp lover would love.

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I DID IT OK I MADE HIM A PROPER EXOSKELETON

its like his true exoskeleton or smthing the suit is a false one blahblahblah

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Stag magazine illustrations by Mort Künstler (1950s, 1960s)

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It's just an old basement. Quit complaining and have a quick look around down there. (Janet Aulisio, Call of Cthulhu supplement Mansions of Madness, Chaosium, 1990)

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Tintin Crossover Fan Art 2 by @adammurphyart

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Today's aesthetic is adventure pulp

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btw when i see the AP episode title "All Pulp, No Juice" i assumed we were gonna do some classic OJ bits, not talking about Gilear's cum

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intimacy across the table—a thread

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle / Frances Ha / In The Mood For Love / Pulp Fiction / Modern Times / Nayak / Before Sunrise / Paterson / Kapurush / Hiroshima Mon Amour

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book cover - Three Day Pass-To Kill - 1958

Paul Rader

True Adventures Dec 1958

John Styga

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All Pulp, No Juice

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Fun Facts About “Burning Bright”

I’m behind doing a Fun Facts post on my story “Burning Bright.” It was recently published in the #44 of Pulp Adventures. If you’re interested in purchasing an issue, click here. Usually posts share some fun little tidbits about the story and what inspired it.

Let’s begin with the title. The phrase “Burning Bright,” comes from William Blake’s poem “Tyger, Tyger.” I’m not a great lover of poetry, but I do love this one. Another phrase from it, “Fearful Symmetry” is the title of a book in the story.

The author, Barbara Newhall Follett and her odd disappearance partly inspired this story. A genius, she wrote a bestselling book when she was young and though she published a few other things, she fell into obscurity. When she was twenty-five, she left her apartment and was never seen again. To this day they don’t know if there was an accident, if she was murdered, or if she killed herself.

Another inspiration for this story is Agatha Christie. After the death of her mother and break down of her marriage, she disappeared for eleven days and sent the world into a panic. When she was recovered at a hotel, safe and oblivious to the upset, using her husband’s lover’s surname. Doctors determined that she had memory loss. Some believed it was a stunt, to revenge herself on her husband for his infidelity and demand for a divorce. Other’s think it was a nervous breakdown, from grief and stress. Agatha Christie herself never addressed the episode in interviews or her autobiography.

In this story, a character is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their book. The first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer was Edith Wharton, for “The Age of Innocence,” in 1920.

While it’s only referenced briefly, this story takes place in Terre Haute in the 1930s. Yes, it’s one of my many Great Depression stories.

The Vigo County Poor Farm is referenced. In the 19th century, Poor Farms were set up for those living in poverty, who needed care. It wasn’t as altruistic as it sounded: from many accounts, Poor Farms were depressing places and didn’t treat their residents very well. The Vigo County Poor Farm featured in this story, was the one constructed in the 1930s, up in north Terre Haute, on Maple Avenue. Later, it was turned into a nursing home, and then torn down and new building for the nursing home was built in the area. For more information on the Vigo County Poor Farm, check out this article and this one from the Tribune Star. My great-grandfather was a resident at the Vigo County Poor Farm in the late 1940s.

Prairie Creek is shown in the story. My grandfather lived there when he was young and I have cousins who live in the home there.

Until next time!

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'Benedict and Brazos' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Benedict and Brazos' Book Review By Ron Fortier

BENEDICT AND BRAZOS # 18 : Bo Rangle’s Boothill By E. Jefferson Clay Bold Venture Press 116 pgs

So we’re heading out the door about to go on a ten-day vacation in New England to view the magnificent Fall foliage. Hastily we scan the books on our shelf and grab two to stuff in our suitcase. One was “Benedict and Brazos # 18 : Bo Rangle’s Boothill. For those of you who came in late, this is one of the better western paperback series ever produced. Duke Benedict is a former Union officer while Hank Brazos is an ex-Confederate sergeant. Through a bloody encounter towards the end of the Civil War, the two become partners to hunt down a killer named Bo Rangle and his gang. Rangle stole a shipment of army gold and each new book in the series is part of this extended chase saga.

Which as it turns out terminates in this particular volume.  I.e. our two gritty heroes finally catch up with their prey in a gun blasting finale. But not before many other folks, good and bad become collateral damage. Watching the friendship develop between the main characters is one of the real pleasures of these action-packed books. And as luck would have, the kind folks at Bold Venture actually quoted one of our earlier reviews right there on the cover. This in no way prejudiced this review. “Bo Rangle’s Boothill” is a classic western from the first page to the last. Now we’re curious what will come next for these two rough-and-tumble-saddle pals.

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Vintage Pulp - Spicy-Adventure Stories (Oct1940)

Art by H.J. Ward

Culture Publications

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Jenny Frison, Harley Quinn, “A Harley Quinn Mystery”

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art by Samson Pollen (1960s-1970s)