Pulp novels

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 1:46am

Tonight a writer-friend asked me if there was much of a market for these. I tentatively said yes, as manga and sci fi novels of today are similar to pulp as it was decades ago. What do you think? Is there an audience for trashy-funny-sexy-scifi outside of Comedy Central addicts?

[Plum]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 2:07am

Hm. Well, "genre" has always been kind of marginalized, but it's always had an audience, too. Can you elaborate what you mean by pulp?

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 2/2/06 at 2:57am

Thanks for your response. I'm taking this definition of "pulp" from google:

Novels written for the mass market, intended to be "a good read,"--often exciting, titillating, thrilling. Historically they have been very popular but critically sneered at as being of sub-literary quality. The earliest ones were the dime novels of the nineteenth century, printed on newsprint (hence "pulp" fiction) and sold for ten cents. Westerns, stories of adventure, even the Horatio Alger novels, all were forms of pulp fiction.

I think my friend has something more along the lines of Sin City or Tarantino's Pulp Fiction in mind, but as a book (mostly?) without illustrations and more on the hypersexualized science fiction side of pulp.