Posted May 18, 200619 yr comment_42152 For a look at materials dating back to the age of the pulps and a bit later, either for reading pleasure of idea mining, take a look at: http://durendal.org:8080/books.html Durendal has a large collection of public domain works (cleared by Project Gurenberg) that includes a growing set of the original Tom Swift series from 1910 through the mid 1930's, updated as the works come into public domain. Other highlights are some early sci-fi by writers like E.E. 'Doc' Smith, John W. Campbell, and more. They have a minimum of page images for all of the works they archive, and provide links to Project Gutenberg e-texts and the few items still in print where available. The Tom Swift series is a standout, in that it has page scans, HTML text, ASCII text, PG HTNL text, zlib cspotrun Palm doc, Rocket ebook, and iSilo 2.0 formats for the texts that they have. Take a look - the early Tom Swift novels pretty much have an entire adventure contained in just their titles alone: Tom Swift and His Magnetic Silencer, Tom Swift and His Sky Train, Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, etc.
May 22, 200619 yr comment_1024247 Re: Early Pulp Classics Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle Which, some 50 years later, inspired scientist and inventor Jack Cover to give his new stun gun the acronym TASER - "Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle."
May 22, 200619 yr comment_1024271 Re: Early Pulp Classics "Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone". And now, less than 100 years later, I own one. Early scifi coolness rep. EDIT: Can't rep you again yet, but it's on the list.
May 24, 200619 yr comment_1026283 Re: Early Pulp Classics I remember when watching the T V series "M A S H" Hawkeye referred to Major Burns as "Tom Swift and his Electric Paranoid" !
May 24, 200619 yr Author comment_1026758 Re: Early Pulp Classics The older Tom Swift books have always held a special place for me since my father's copy of 'Tom Swift And His Sky Train' was the first 'pulp' work that I read as a child - in some ways, that experience is to blame for my fascination with it still. On another note, I did not know that about the TASER acronym - very cool indeed!
May 26, 200619 yr comment_1028412 Re: Early Pulp Classics Hmmm... Tom Swift and his Electric Potato...
May 26, 200619 yr comment_1028679 Re: Early Pulp Classics Slate has done a week on Pulp Fiction (and other fiction). http://www.slate.com/id/2142392/?nav=ais
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