Friday, July 06, 2007

Astonishing Adventures Magazine

Carlucci and others have started up a new Pulp Magazine, Astonishing Adventures. It will be web-only and free for now -- however, this is a place to get your pulp on and your stuff read. Build a base of readers for if/when you expand your work into other magazines or even novels. (Did you read Mike Nelson's on-line novel Dingo, like I told you? Get to it. Noir with a ... twist.) You've got 25 days to get your space alien/evil Nazi/geneticaly modified ape with a gun story into their in-box for consideration. Bill Cunningham has an excellent overview here. Bill, by the way has been doing a much better job on his website at what I thought I'd be doing on this website than I ever could. I need to find a new approach. Or start shamelessly cribbing his.

"Pulp" as a genre seems to have really gripped writers my age. The idea of accomplishing characterization and big-theme story-telling through high action and high emotion stories -- it's as if mannered structure to science fiction, or more appropriately what we probably mistake science fiction to be, is eroding away. Or more likely 40 is when you stop worrying about making a fool of yourself.

I myself may start a separate blog to do chapter postings of what is affectionately called "the doomed pulp novel." I told the idea to Cory Doctorow and Geoff Thorne and nobody put a mercy bullet in its brain, so I edge ever forward. The fact that the fictional world would be shared/Creative Commons is the interesting bit ...

But what is pulp? Star Wars, of course, is pulp, not science fiction (Star Trek always stays in sci fi), as is Doctor Who. 24 is pulp. Farscape was best when it was pulp. Transmetropolitan, which you MUST READ, is scifi-journo-hero pulp. Heroes is not pulp, and Lost is sometimes pulp, depending on who's writing it.

Any time the heroes resolve a complex situation by running down a corridor as shit explodes around them and completely over-the-top implacable enemies scream imprecations through rising flames and our guys pause just long enough to say something somehow simultaneously smart and corny and heart-achingly true, then start running again because the clock is ticking and nobody saw this twist coming and they're making it up as they go along -- pulp.

49 comments:

impwork said...

Thanks for the heads up on this one sounds very interesting.

Holly said...

it's as if mannered structure to science fiction, or more appropriately what we probably mistake science fiction to be, is eroding away

Thank God! It's about time. (I'd thought I saw signs of this, too. Glad to hear it confirmed.)

Enjoy your blog, BTW.

Geoff Thorne said...

This is a lovely notion. I have something I think will fit and will be sending it in the next few moments.

No monkeys or Nazis, sorry, but I think it's pulptastic.

Pulpriffic?

Pulprageous.

(Rogers. Finish the damned book. I want to read it.)

Cunningham said...

Dude-

The way things are going right now, there is more than enough room for another voice in the chorus of new media evangelists. After you get through with Alex's project, your movie, BB, etc...there's some stuff we should discuss.

Thanks for the shout out to pulp. Go and write some...

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the plug. Carlucci and I appreciate it.

Woodrow "asim" Jarvis Hill said...

more likely 40 is when you stop worrying about making a fool of yourself.
There's also the point that the guys who grew up on the early gasps of "modern pulp" -- STAR WARS, INDIANA JONES, the re-birth of comics -- are now in the "driver's seat" in terms of mainstream culture.

Contrast Marvel comic's "characters first" approach with USA Network's "Characters welcome" concept.

I myself may start a separate blog to do chapter postings of what is affectionately called "the doomed pulp novel." I told the idea to Cory Doctorow and Geoff Thorne and nobody put a mercy bullet in its brain, so I edge ever forward. The fact that the fictional world would be shared/Creative Commons is the interesting bit ...

I'm astonished beyond reason why no one has done this yet. The rise of fan fiction should make should a move so bleedin' obvious; it would take only one idea to catch fire, and you'd get a crapload of passionate ambassadors for your work.
There is a "chicken and egg" question, about if the visibility of a work affects how many Evangelists you can call forth, but quality has something to say about that, as well, esp. in fan fiction.

John: I strongly recommend, if you've not already, taking a gander at Guy Kawasaki's books and blog. Very much along the lines of what you're thinking, in a somewhat different view.

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Reverend Peter Sears said...

Mmm. Pulp.
If you do a blog of the totally doomed pulp novel. I will read every word of it.

I keep wishing some enterprising soul would come up with a Pulp styled MMORPG. Or even an Aeon Adventure or Spirit of the Century Chat Game.

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Re. pulp: If you don't already know it, I highly recommend the old-time radio drama Escape. "Tired of the daily grind? Looking for a life of romantic adventure? We offer you . . . Escape!" Pure old-school pulp fiction/men's adventure with stories that would've been prohibitively expensive to film at the time (but not anymore -- hint, hint). Archive.org has all the episodes in .mp3 format. Click here and scroll down -- there are five pages worth of links. Great voice work by Paul Frees and William Conrad, too.

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