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May 26, 2023, 10 tweets

Today in pulp I head back over half a century... to 1971!

Spoilers: it's a strange time.

The Long Goodbye, and The Lady In The Lake by Raymond Chandler. Ballantine Books, 1971. Cover by Tom Adams.

Moonferns and Starsongs, and Son Of Man by Robert Silverberg. Ballantine, 1971. Covers by Gene Szafran.

Manwich: "bewitches all men." (1971)

The World's Biggest Glutton: a 1971 illustration by Gōjin Ishihara.

Quaaludes (1971). "Side effects have been mild, transient... and statistically insignificant."

Captain Consumerism! Prokon, by Peter Haars. Pax Forlag, 1971.

Bruce Pennington's cover art for The Canopy of Time, by Brian Aldiss (NEL, 1971) and Space, Time and Nathaniel by Brian Aldiss (NEL, 1971).

Girls' Romances, January and April 1971. Covers by Nick Cardy.

The Coxeman series by Troy Conway (aka Michael Avallone). Paperback Library, 1971.

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