Pulp Librarian
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Curator of the art, history and fiction of old dreams.
A library of the mind
Joined December 2014
Hello, and welcome to the pulp library, a bibliothèque of bemusement! You can find my previous threads here: https://t.co/wmGQuDl6bO
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Donovan fans - own your own Electrical Banana Phonograph: - portable - funky - plays upside down Colours: Mellow Yellow, Jennifer/Juniper.
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Of course. calling it the good beef suet implies there is a 'bad' beef suet lurking out there somewhere...
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Fun fact: nobody is certain what colour Helen of Troy's hair was. Both Homer and Sappho are vague about the matter, and depending on your interpretation and choice of text she could have been blonde, chestnut or red headed.
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Here's the movie tie-in edition of Orca from Pocket Books. I have no idea why they used Frankfurter for the typeface!
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The "Radio Widow." How can he be so heartless, putting his headphones on and ignoring her whilst listening to trivia... Radio News, July 1926
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Orca (1977). 'But we have Jaws at home.' It's a revenge tale cashing in on Jaws-mania, only this time it's a killer whale out for blood. Richard Harris is the Ahab-like captain who wronged the wrong orca, Charlotte Rampling is very scientific and of course it's a Dino De
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So when are we going to get flying cars? According to the UK's Department for Transport in 2024, the first piloted flying taxi (technically an eVTOL system) should happen by 2026 in Britain. It's an emerging industry but there's already a range of prototype eVTOL craft being
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The original Christopher Cockerell hovercraft: "The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested."
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"Death Orgy of the Leopard Women." Wildcat Adventures, April 1960.
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"Chewed to bits by giant turtles." Man's Life, May 1957. Cover by Wil Hulsey.
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The Snail Watcher And Other Stories, by Patricia Highsmith. Doubleday, 1970. Cover by Tim Lewis.
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A Medicine For Melancholy, by Ray Bradbury. Doubleday, 1959. Cover art by Joe Mugnaini
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R.U.R. - Rossum's Universal Robots: a fantastic melodrama, by Karel Capek. Doubleday, 1923. Translated by Paul Selver.
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Wanted: One Sane Man, by Frank M. Robinson. Imagination, June 1955.
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"Don't worry guys, he's practiced for years playing Operation by MB Games."
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