The Pulp Zone: covers, stories,
The Pulp Zone: covers, stories, and letters -- as well as background -- on the pulps. Once, over 1,000 pulp magazines of every genre filled the newsstands. Because the pulps were considered nonessentail trash by the Canadian war department during WWII, they were not imported from the US. As a result, the war was a golden age for Canadian genre writers, who found themselves with a sellers market of hundreds of made-in-Canada pulps with names like "Exciting Monkey Bum Stories for Boys" (well, maybe not exactly like that), hungry for their work. One thing a diligent reader of pulps will notice is all the ads for trusses. Here's what I wonder: were there more hernias back then, or fewer hernia surgeries? Link DiscussShare this post
Cory Doctorow
Upcoming appearances
* Feb 9, 2012, DeKalb, IL: Day of Doctorow, NIU
* Feb 10-12, 2012, Chicago, IL: Capricon 32
* Feb 13, 2012, Arlington, TX: UT Arlington College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series
* Feb 16, 2012, Victoria, BC: 13th Annual Privacy and Security Conference
Recent books:
* Context (essays)
* With a Little Help (short stories)
* For the Win (YA novel)
* Makers (adult novel)
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