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Pulp Fantasy Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 02:46:03 No.16304416 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best schlocky pulp fantasy stories?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 02:56:39 No.16304462 File: 922 KB, 1696x2560, 914yEQH3EZL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16304416 Conan the Cimmerian

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 03:28:29 No.16304606 File: 41 KB, 331x499, 51OsMPSqllL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 04:01:46 No.16304731 >>16304462 This

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 07:34:33 No.16305431 Conan Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser(Swords and Deviltry, Swords Against Death, Swords in the Mist)

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 12:52:30 No.16306809 Elric of Melniboné

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 13:11:03 No.16306919 >>16304416 >pulp fantasy How is it different from regular fantasy?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 13:14:19 No.16306935 File: 284 KB, 824x1244, death-dealer-frazetta.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16306919 Dumber, shorter, more cartoony, quick, and exploitative. (And that's a good thing)

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 13:15:20 No.16306943 >>16304416 Cool pic besides the spaceship. Just ruins it.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 14:01:12 No.16307192 >>16306943 The Council Wars series explores the chaos that ensues after a high tech civilization collapses on Earth.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Mon, Sep 7, 2020 14:11:58 No.16307248 >>16304416 Ahh, the Caucasus. Jack Vance is fun.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 14:36:17 No.16307414 File: 46 KB, 283x475, 176804.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16304416 this or anything else by lackey They're very mediocre but they're exemplars of the "terrible 70s fantasy pulp" genre which had a very formative effect on me

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 14:47:02 No.16307465 Is there still a market for this stuff? I have one finished short story and notes for a bunch more (including a novella) but IDK how marketable it all is.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 15:32:13 No.16307672 >>16307465 Look at the winners of the dragon award; pulp is back in. Write better than the hacks that inexplicably dominate awards today, and I'll gladly buy your stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 15:35:47 No.16307698 >>16307672 >pulp is back in. What caused it to get back in?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 15:41:32 No.16307733 >>16307672 Nice. Any idea what the best publications to pitch to are?

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 17:12:28 No.16308222 File: 115 KB, 318x472, Harry_Turtledove_After_The_Downfall.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16304416 I enjoyed this one

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 17:24:22 No.16308299 >>16307698 It's unchallenging, which suits modern readers. >>16307733 Whoever publishes Torgerson. Looks like Baen.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 18:06:32 No.16308594 >>16308299 I was referring more to magazines and whatnot.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 18:56:29 No.16308868 File: 263 KB, 630x1023, 81y1OKdzBkL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16304416 Drenai Tales and The Rigante Series by David Gemmell

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 21:09:01 No.16309692 >>16306935 >Dumber Now that truly is an achievement. Name one smart fantasy book, you can't.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 21:16:16 No.16309726 >>16304416 Karl Edward Wagner's Kane and Conan stories

Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 21:24:20 No.16309776

>>16304416
I finally gave the Drizzt books a try and they are insanely fun. Six books in and I feel like a fool for not reading these sooner

Also started the Dark Sun books, the Prism Pentad. True pulp trash but made more fun by the setting being so cool.

>>	Anonymous Mon, Sep 7, 2020 21:28:23 No.16309805 >>16304416 digital devil story, although that's more sci-fi than fantasy pulp.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 00:48:45 No.16310827 File: 218 KB, 1047x1130, 71asNP+59CL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Death Gate Cycle and Dragonlance Legends by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 00:52:05 No.16310850 Look for burroughs contemporaries and who ever wrote the flash gordon comic strips

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 00:59:01 No.16310889 File: 212 KB, 820x1352, 138 C L MooreJirel of Joiry Ace082.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16304416 C. L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry

JN !!vXXhA/qzhjm Tue, Sep 8, 2020 02:17:12 No.16311262
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>>16304606
>>16310827
>>16310850

This. Dragonlance novels and really early stuff from Robert Howard, ER Burroughs, etc. The other ones in this thread are too good. If you can't find it in the bargain bin at a dollar store it doesn't count.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 02:33:13 No.16311338 >>16308868 >Book X of Y series right on the cover in small white text Is this usually a telltale sign of a pulp book?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 02:42:26 No.16311381 >>16311338 if it is, its not universal

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 04:44:48 No.16311860 I read too much decent literature to have the time to read pulp, sorry.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 07:23:57 No.16312397 >>16304416 Lord of the Rings trolled

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 07:30:26 No.16312421 What are some pulp fantasy novels that are shamless about their heroes being knights in shining armor?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 07:37:15 No.16312441 >>16307465 there are some shitty right wing meme publishers that are starting to put out some of this shit for incels, not sure if they pay much but could be an option

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 07:37:57 No.16312443 >>16312441 >right wing meme publishers that are starting to put out some of this shit for incels Examples?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 07:41:16 No.16312447 >>16312443 terrorhouse mag, arktos, there was some other one but forgot

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 07:43:05 No.16312449 >>16312443 >>16312447 or self-publish in amazon and befriend BAP for free publicity

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 10:08:00 No.16313085 Keep em coming guys

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 11:33:26 No.16313510 File: 644 KB, 2048x857, 87d101e0-e1b9-4ba8-af2c-d4e417bcb7a1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is there a pulp fantasy novel that does the "man fights dragon to save princess" plot in such confident way that it becomes based?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 11:36:21 No.16313529 File: 147 KB, 1006x174, tfw.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16304416 Elric

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 12:13:44 No.16313726 >>16313529 that sounds racist

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 12:16:43 No.16313739 >>16313726 How so?

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 12:17:29 No.16313746 Brook & Catarina and the Large Amount of Skeletons

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 13:12:05 No.16314122 File: 98 KB, 796x572, image0-56.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16304416 https://discord.gg/uXqjGaz

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 15:12:21 No.16314836 >>16304416 Doc Savage, Man of Bronze.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 18:24:30 No.16316147 File: 1.47 MB, 1114x1804, tarnsman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The first several books of Gor.

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 21:04:33 No.16317244 File: 143 KB, 563x800, sonja.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bump

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 21:39:26 No.16317458 >>16316147 You know it’s good pulp when Frazetta does the cover

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 21:40:49 No.16317471 >>16316147 Mst3k version is better CABOT! CABOT!

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 23:02:30 No.16317885 File: 296 KB, 1024x774, The Lost World, Pan Books 1977, front & back covers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16304416 The Lost World https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/139

>>	Anonymous Tue, Sep 8, 2020 23:10:09 No.16317925 >>16317885 Much better than the Michael Crichton Lost World.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 02:56:15 No.16318920 >>16304416 >What are the best schlocky pulp fantasy stories? The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 03:06:07 No.16318958 File: 89 KB, 341x572, dragonsofautumntwilight_1984original.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] They're far from great but they're plentiful and entertaining. The twinkie of the literary world.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 03:52:26 No.16319098 >>16309776 >Drizzt books They are good but they fall flat at book 32

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 03:57:20 No.16319111 File: 103 KB, 1600x900, donotdeservetopass-1600x900.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >schlocky pulpy sci-fi>fantasy

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 03:59:25 No.16319117 >>16309692 Name one smart book, you can't

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 04:47:28 No.16319248 >>16306919 Aragorn slays the captain of the Orcish guards as they Fellowship flees Moria while Conan the Barbarian gets thrown into prison, eats a meal consisting of cooked meat and then proceeds to kill a guard by braining him with the animal bone.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 05:15:41 No.16319328 File: 605 KB, 1650x2550, cucking.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 05:16:42 No.16319337 >>16318920 >puritan fanfic >it's actually good lmao

Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 05:28:04 No.16319372

>>16319248
>>16306919

From the Conan short story Rogues in the House.

"Another jailer took his place, a stolid, dependable creature whom no amount of bribery could have shaken from his duty. He was unimaginative, but he had an exalted idea of the importance of his job.

"...this jailer made the rounds of the cell as a matter of routine. As he passed that of Conan, his sense of propriety was shocked and outraged to see the prisoner free of his chains and in the act of gnawing the last shreds of meat from a huge beefbone. The jailer was so upset that he made the mistake of entering the cell alone, without calling guards from the other parts of the prison. It was his first mistake in the line of duty, and his last. Conan brained him with the beef bone, took his poniard and his keys, and made a leisurely departure."

From Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings

"There was a guard of orcs crouching in the shadows behind the great door-posts towering on either side, but the gates went shattered and cast down. Aragorn smote to the ground the captain that stood in his path, and the rest fled in terror of his wrath."

Conan improvises by using a beefbone to kill a guard while Aragorn had his sword, Anduril. I think in Howard's short stories, the meteorite sword or dagger makes it's appearance in the short story(The Devil in Iron) with the creature called Dagon which might have been a nod to Lovecrafts mythos with the eldritch abominations while Conan in the films has a personal sword forged from meteorite and uses it even in the second film. Tolkien also has a sword made from meteorite in his Silmarillion novel. I think the meteorite sword is used by Beleg(I had to use Google even though I am reading the Silmarillion) and is slain by the sword at the hands of Turin who then uses the sword himself.

>>	Anonymous Wed, Sep 9, 2020 06:02:34 No.16319453 >>16306919 fascist fanfic / catholic fanfic

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