At 09:19 PM 1/1/01, you wrote:
>Not exactly sure I get your meaning. Adventure/Pulp style fiction can be
>written about this modern digital age. The whole Splatterpunk stuff fer
>instance.
>
>If you mean old pulp writers remaining in PRINT vs. DIGITAL, I'd bet on
>print for the most part. Received the latest Bud Plant catalog and
>noticed that Zorro reprints, Spider reprints, and some Shadow reprints
>are available. I've read a few of these and wasn't really all that
>impressed. The "hero" pulps are fun but not too literary IMHO.
No, I was just wondering if the 21st century will have someone as
influential in the pulp adventure genre as Howard was for the 20th
century. Or will Howard, Lovecraft, and a few others continue to define
the genre for the next few generations? It's not like people don't keep
trying to add to the genre or expand it. But we still have a very old
measuring stick, so to speak.
Is that because this readership is aging and the younger pulp fans are
involved elsewhere?
>Except for the Black Mask guys I'm thinking the best pulp writers wrote
>short stories not novels. I've taken to reading various short stories
>lately. I think some of REH's best stuff stacks up OK along side short
>story masters like Poe, London, Hemingway. I read a short story by
>Raymond Carver called "Cathedral" that is just terrific. REH never did
>anything that good but Carver himself probably never wrote anything else
>that good either.
Short story fiction is certainly different from novel fiction. But short
story fiction is alive and well. The expectations of the publishing field,
however, seem to have changed.
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