Hard Rocket

Finished with Spicy Science Stories no. 6, "Some Ill Planet Reigns" and I'll be giving it one last once-over before I upload it. I'm certain I'll find more typos and syntax errors when I read through the preview because I always do, goddammit.

I'm also going with Racy Rocket Adventures as the umbrella title of the new erotic space opera series. I won't be completely dropping the crew of the USS Mike Hunt since they inhabit the same universe as this new set of stories so they'll turn up in a story or two. Still have to work on some names for the main characters and decide on a logo for the covers.

I changed a blog font a couple days ago and suddenly everything defaulted to Comic Sans. I suspect that's a cruel joke perpetuated by the code monkeys working for Blogger. Some rummaging around in the HTML and everything seems to be straight for now though Comic Sans still pops up for a few seconds if your connection is slow. If I can find it hiding in the code I'll yank it out by its tiny little balls and stomp on it for a while. The good thing is that the HTML rummaging makes the blog's mobile version look more like the desktop one, as if anyone ever cared.

Pulp Mag Resources

The next time I'm in the market for a pet please tell me to get an anteater because cats just plain don't earn their keep this time of year.

Since my kitchen is officially dead to me now and I have all this non-cooking time on my hands I'll waste a little bandwidth on links to some online pulp magazine archives that have collections available for download. These sites have pdfs, epubs and facsimile reprints of classic magazines. I now have copies of some of my collection on the Kindle so I can read them without taking them out of their plastic bags.

See, there's the Catch-22. If pulps are in good enough condition to read without falling apart they're way too nice to ever cram in a messenger bag to read on the bus.

Free downloads:

The Pulp Magazine Archive The Internet Archive has a nice collection of stuff, just not completely organized. Slap a title in the search and see what comes up.

The Pulp Magazines Project Tons of stuff to read here in online flipbook form or pdf download.

Project Gutenberg Check out the Science Fiction Bookshelf.

PulpGen Pulp Tons of pulp stories to download, mostly detective stuff.

Pulp Covers Total time-suck. Click a category like "Dead Body" or "Alien Attack" and just try and yank yourself away, I dare you.

Le Site du Capitaine Flam Worth running through Google Translate. French Captain Future site, tons of stuff on the late 70s anime series and Japanese comics but also has free pdf downloads in English of most of the original 1940s-50s pulps with the illustrations.

Luminist Periodical Archives Giant collection of pdfs. Everything from detective magazines to girlie mags and a huge pile of science fiction. Seems to now be a very attractive collection of dead MediaFire links. Booooo.

Reprints and Epubs for sale:

Adventure House Epubs for sale as well as facsimile reprints of pulp magazines. Stuff like Planet Stories, Captain Future, The Shadow and Doc Savage.

Altus Press Huge selection of detective and adventure pulp epubs and reprints.

Radio Archives The Spider, Operator #5, Captain Future and a buttload of other pulp epubs as well as a nice collection of Old Time Radio shows.

Vintage Library Pulp magazine reprints of detective magazines, Doc Savage, Westerns.

Quickies Collection

First collection just uploaded, all previously published stuff. If you already bought the three stories separately there's no difference in this other than some formatting changes and a fancy new cover.

Now I see I should've bumped the line "Quickies Collection" down a couple notches. My only excuse was that "3 Complete Stories" was originally a lot higher and the font was a few points bigger at one point. I wanted to stick "Reissue" on there somewhere like on the Amazing Stories cover but there wasn't a good place for it.

Here's the inspiration for the cover. I'm getting pretty tired of the gold and red of the Spicy Science Stories series and am looking forward to something a little more off-kilter like this monochromatic one. I was trying to make the stories in the series relate to each other with a similar title font and color scheme but I got tired of it by the third one. I've got some ideas for the next series covers.

Something Rocket Whatever is gonna rule! Maybe!