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4 Jul, 11 tweets, 3 min read
Today in pulp: what were the top 10 causes of death in Victorian Britain*? Let's see...

(*according to the Illustrated Police News: "The worst newspaper in England!") Image
At #10: death by funeral! What an a-pall-ing way to go... Image
At #9: death by immodesty! Oh the dangers of public canoodling... Image
At #8: death by donkey! Silly old ass... Image
At #7: death by japery! The killing joke... Image
At #6: death by literary intent! A novel way to go... Image
At #5: death by corsetry! What a waist... Image
At #4: death by armed nunnery! Such bad habits... Image
At #3: death by reading in bed! You have been warned... Image
At #2: death by cats! You always suspected this might happen... Image
And the number one cause of death in Victorian Britain?

Death by impoliteness! Image

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2 Jul
Hard-boiled and Noir are two distinct - but overlapping - genres of crime fiction. So it's no surprise that both have their roots in the same soil: a pulp magazine that broke the mould. Twice.

Let's look back at the legendary Black Mask...
"The Black Mask" started as an answer to a business problem: how could journalist H. L. Mencken and theatre critic George Jean Nathan keep their slick, influential but loss-making magazine 'The Smart Set' going?

Publishing a pulp title to subsidise it seemed to make sense.
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29 Jun
Today in pulp... some short-lived '80s hi-tech action heroes. These people aren't Knight Rider or Airwolf: they're the other guys!

Let's start with Automan.
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Neither of which were in good shape by 1983...
Automan starred Desi Arnaz, Jr. as a police computer whizz who created a holographic detective (played by Chuck Wagner) who sadly could only fight crime at night, due to the huge amounts of electricity needed to make him appear.
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25 Jun
The Time Machine, Brave New World, 1984: these weren’t the first dystopian novels. There's an interesting history of Victorian and Edwardian literature looking at the impact of modernity on humans and finding it worrying.

Today in pulp I look at some early dystopian books…
Paris in the Twentieth Century, written in 1863, was the second novel penned by Jules Verne. However his publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel rejected it as too gloomy. The manuscript was only discovered in 1994 when Verne’s grandson hired a locksmith to break into an old family safe.
The novel, set in 1961, warns of the dangers of a utilitarian culture. Paris has street lights, motor cars and the electric chair but no artists or writers any more. Instead industry and commerce dominate and citizens see themselves as cogs in a great economic machine.
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23 Jun
Today in pulp… a few musings on a new type of narrative structure that we’re seeing more and more in the 21st Century: the algorithmic story.

Don’t worry, it’s not that complex. Yet.
Algorithms are simply sets of well-defined rules used (often in combinations) to solve well-defined problems, or to help make ill-defined problems more solvable. Rubik’s cube is solved through algorithms, as are Google searches.
The key to their power is that they are unambiguous: rules is rules! Yet used repeatedly and in combinations they are extremely powerful. And they’re not always tied to the thing they operate on: a good algorithm can be applied to anything.
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22 Jun
In the mid-1960s one TV show took the world by storm: Batman! But did you know how popular he was in Japan?

Let's look back at a fascinating slice of comic book history - BatManga! Image
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19 Jun
Many readers* have asked me why I don't feature more mountain-based choose your own adventure books on this account?

Well your day has come! Here's my Top 10 peak picks...

(*none as yet)
At #10: Caverns of the Snow Witch! Dare YOU enter this nightclub?
At #9: Light on Quests Mountain! I think you have to put them out in sequence to win a prize.
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