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Sci-fi pulp fiction from the 60's

franksm · 2006-01-11 15:23:08

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…

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

Try the sci-fi forum maybe.

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