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Today in pulp... a few Beacon Books!

They'd sex anything up: even Poul Anderson.

I love alliteration!

Hill Hellion, by Lon Williams. Beacon Books, 1968.

Sin In Space, by Cyril Judd. Beacon, 1959. Cover by Bob Stanley.

The only way Cherry could get places was by going bad...

Sin Doll, by Orrie Hitt. Beacon Books, 1963.

Bobby Sox, always a vice giveaway.

The Promoter, by Orrie Hitt. Beacon Books 142, 1957.

"She wanted to paint the male figure... Undraped!"

Girl Artist, by Ben West. Beacon Books, 1960.

I believe this is called "Uptitling."

The Sexecutives, by Lee Richards. Beacon Books, 1963.

"They came from filthy slums, where even their dreams were dirty!"

Gutter Gang, by Jay de Bekker. Beacon Books, 1954.

"It was mating season... all year 'round!"

Bayou Girl, by John Thompson. Beacon Books, 1956.

"When Juanita twisted, every man squirmed!"

The Sex Twist, by John Carver. Beacon Books, 1962.

The Lady Is A Lush, by Orrie Hitt. Beacon Books, 1960.

"Set in the primitive backwater country of Louisiana..."

Spawn Of The Bayou, by John B Thompson. Beacon Books B208, 1958.

Through the keyhole... Too Hot To Handle, by Orrie Hitt. Beacon Books, 1959.

Sales and marketing: Sheba, by Orrie Hitt. Beacon Books, 1959.

Early Mallrats.

Shopping Center Sex, by Oren A Lang. Beacon Books, 1964.

Snap! A Woman's Woman by Toni Adler (Beacon Books 1962) & The Unmarried Ones by Don Rico (Beacon Books 1964)

Set in the lustful world of insurance brokers.

Shabby Street, by Orrie Hitt. Beacon Books, 1954.

Blue Hotel, on a lonely highway...

Bedrooms Are Not For Sleeping, by Herb Roberts. Beacon Books, 1962.

Top tip: wearing good quality rubber boots can save your life if you are hit by sex lightening.

Morgan's Girls, by Matt Harding. Beacon Books, 1965.

I note this never happens at sci-fi conventions!* Call South 3300: Ask for Molly! by Orrie Hitt. Beacon B176, 1958.

(*don't @ me. What happens in Farscape stays in Farscape...)

"The new sex frontier - SUBURBIA!"

The Deceivers, by L T Woodward MD. Beacon Books, 1962.

Loves Of A Girl Wrestler by Ben West (aka James W. Lampp). Beacon Books, 1960.

"They strutted shamelessly before greedy eyes!"

Of G-strings And Strippers by Mark Tyron. Beacon Books, 1953.

More Beacon Books another time...

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Today in pulp I look back at New Zealand's home-grow microcomputer, the 1981 Poly-1!

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Apr 26

It was the biggest manhunt in Britain: police, the press, aeroplanes, psychics all tried to solve the disappearance. In the end nobody really knew what happened. It was a mystery without a solution.

This is the story of Agatha Christie's 11 lost days...

By 1926 Agatha Christie's reputation as a writer was starting to grow. Her sixth novel - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - had been well-received and she and her husband Archie had recently concluded a world tour. But all was not well with the marriage.

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Many readers have asked me over the years what my definition of pulp is. I've thought about it a lot, and the definition I keep coming back to... well it may surprise you.

Let me try and set it out.

There are lots of definitions of pulp out there: in books, in academic papers and on the web. And most circle back to the same three points: the medium, the story type and the method of writing.

Pulp is of course a type of cheap, coarse paper stock. Its use in magazine production from the 1890s onwards led to it becoming a shorthand term for the kind of fiction found in low cost story magazines.

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Apr 18

let's take a look at the extraordinary work of Victorian illustrator and cat lover Louis Wain!

Louis Wain was born in London in 1860. Although he is best known for his drawings of cats he started out as a Victorian press illustrator. His work is highly collectable.

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Over the years a number of people have asked me if I have a favourite pulp film. Well I do. It's this one.

This is the story of Alphaville...

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British writer Peter Cheyney had created the fictitious American investigator Lemmy Caution in 1936. As well as appearing in 10 novels Caution featured in over a dozen post-war French films, mostly played by singer Eddie Constantine whom Godard was keen to work with.

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