He also, unexpectedly, turned to "Pulp Fiction" to explain his faith and his view on miracles. He detailed a scene in which Samuel L. Jackson's character gets into an argument with "his fellow violent gangster" about "whether God had come down from heaven and stopped these mother effing...
November 5th, 2018 | Fiction | journalpulp | 76 Comments NOTE: This is the original version of a story that was many years in the making. It is a prototype. The theme and characters remain the same, but a more polished and significantly altered version can be read by click-clicking th...
Presents the views of Quentin Tarantino on his film 'Pulp Fiction'. History of the career of tarantino as a film maker; Ideas of Tarantino on what constitute violent films; 'Pulp Fiction' as a modern day crime fiction; Targeted audience of Tarantino's film; Problem on casting; Views of ...
Michael Shawn Sommermeyer, author of short story and original pulp fiction stories. Wordsmith HollerFollow Long ago, I became a news anchor and wrote small, spiffy, stories around 70-words for a living. Then, I thought I should be more serious and became an author. ...
Overall, this page is well written and captures the time, speech patterns, and period slang in a style that’s reminiscent ofnoir pulp fiction. The reader doesn’t yet understand the story problem or what’s at stake. However, the historic setting and the voice are intriguing enough that ...
why are you reading a pulp science fiction story in the first place? The characters are flat and two dimensional. That said, this is a story of ideas, and although it doesn't explore all its ideas with the depth and richness they merit, it probably does as much as could be done ...
I love a good science fiction story that really leans into one of the weird aspects of modern physics, and so as soon as I learned the premise of Poul Anderson’sTau Zero(1970), I knew I had to snap it up and read it! (I am again taking advantage of the decent quality and dirt ...
Independent publishers of provocative fiction. New From P.T. Phronk: Are You Seeing This? Posted onNovember 2, 2024byPhronk 0 Are you seeing this? It’s a question pertinent to a divided society, where what burns the mental retinas of one person may be completely invisible to another. It...
Something odd is happening in the town of Centerville: Watches have stopped. Phones aren’t working. And the line between fiction and the reality of their world seems to be increasingly blurred. Someone mentions “The Great Gatsby’s wife” when referring to Zelda Fitzgerald, mentioning that Gat...
she slips out of his clutches via the good will of mankind. It’s a decent story so I won’t ruin the plot. Vera Clacton supplied fiction stories to English newspapers from the 1930s-1960s; some of those were syndicated as far as Singapore. I can’t find any such person born, marri...