Tag Archives: pulp

Book Review: Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Tietsu

Yeah, alright. I did it. I told myself I wouldn’t, but here we are. After reading twelve goddamn Philip K. Dick books and finding only a handful that didn’t piss me off as lyricless, drug-laddled sci-fi dime novels, I told … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw

Posted on November 21, 2017 by Tietsu

There is something about Yahtzee Croshaw that has always appealed to me. I discovered his Zero Punctuation just before it got picked up The Escapist back in 2007. His disdain for tropish literature and general cynicism for, well, everything puts … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard by Robert E. Howard

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Tietsu

When you exist as a contemporary to Lovecraft you’re already in something of a bind when you write horror stories. Like it or not you will be compared and that’s…a difficult prospect. Now when you are also his BFF and … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Tietsu

This is a book divided into two parts. A novelette and novella that combine to create something that one can only tenuously describe as ‘whole’. Sure the two parts share the same characters, the same setting, but the feel entirely … Continue reading →

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Call of the Water

Posted on June 2, 2016 by Tietsu

The sound of the waves splash hard against the jagged rocks scattered across the shore ad infinitum. They all came here, first humbly, then in droves. They came to see the creature that just sat there, listening. One day they … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell

Posted on May 18, 2016 by Tietsu

It’s a novella that was the basis for a movie that apparently everyone but me actually saw in some form or another. That being said I’m not so disconnected from the cultural zeitgeist to be unaware of it’s existence, so I … Continue reading →

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