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Sci-fi pulp fiction from the 60's

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  • 11-01-2006 4:23pm
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    franksm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭


    Anybody else read this stuff ? The A5-sized monthly magazines full of short stories, articles and serials. The modern equivalent would be the Analog or Asimov magazines.

    Authors such as John Brunner, Harry Harrison, John Rackham.

    What I love about this stuff: it's good old fashioned sci-fi, relying on story and ideas without going overboard on technical details and what-not. The characters are usually strong and there'd be a love-element in it too (male lead rescuing the distressed female). Very much like the classic sci-fi films of the era (Quatermass, Forbidden Planet, Day the Earth Stood Still etc)

    A lot of these stories may have been reprinted in anthologies, but they're very, very rare. I bought a load of pulp off Ebay and am working my way through them - nostalgia for me, as I grew up on reading the 60s magazines my dad collected.

    Luvvin' it


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    franksm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭franksm


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    Dades
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    I read a lot of sci-fi but reading 60s pulp stuff doesn't really appeal to me.

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    Try the sci-fi forum maybe. :)


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