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Feb 17 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Italian mobile library.
Biblioburro, Mexico.
Chevy 1300 bookmobile.
Roshan the library camel, Pakistan.
1955 Chevrolet bookmobile, South Carolina.
Itinerant book trolley, Budapest.
Weapon of Mass Instruction, Argentina.
Utah State Library bookmobile.
Mobile library, @OrkneyLibrary
Booktruck, Australia.
Russ the Bus mobile library, Sydney.
Street library, Bogotá.
Lungile Moferi’s tuk-tuk library, South Africa
Tell A Story book van, Lisbon.
The Book Bike project, "girls reading to succeed", Lahore.

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Feb 17
Many readers have asked me "Why do so many pulp covers feature women in ripped red blouses standing in swamps while a man who looks a bit like David Bowie fights off an unusual animal attack?"

The answer is: pulp artist Wil Hulsey... Image
Wilbur "Wil" Hulsey was the undisputed king of the animal attack pulp cover. You name it, he'd paint it attacking you in a pool of stagnant water. Image
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Feb 17
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...
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Feb 16
Fun fact: in Britain you can enjoy chicken from many different US states.
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Feb 16
Today in pulp... let me introduce you to Starman!

No not that one, THIS one: "El Libertario!"
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Feb 15
Today in pulp I look back at the early days of pulp Spanish sci-fi.

Let me introduce you to the Luchadores del Espacio!!
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Feb 12
Today in pulp I'm looking back at one of #Japan's greatest science fiction magazines: Hayakawa S-F!
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