Posts whose title or text contains one of these words are left out of every view.
Whole words only: ai catches "AI-generated" but not "openai". Add a star for word beginnings: llm* catches llm and llms.
99 words is the limit
https://thepulp.net/yellowedperils
11 posts
Writing 45% · Culture 27% · History 9% · Life 9% · Tech 9%
Subscribe via RSS
Matt Moring of Steeger Books posted on Facebook this morning that Will Murray died earlier this week. Will was 73. I’m in shock. Will had been a staple of pulpdom since at least the early 1970s. His was one of the first names I saw among those writing about the pulps and pulp characters at […]
In its August issue, The Atlantic ran “The End of Reading Is Here,” by Rose Horowitch. It argued that Americans process more words than any generation before us — texts, posts, captions, threads — while the sustained attention that a book demands is slipping away. Horowitch’s word for this is postliterate rather than illiterate. Fewer […]
PulpFest 2026 was a landmark. The convention drew 486 attendees — about 350 preregistrations and the rest walk-ups. That’s a record for PulpFest and its predecessor, Pulpcon. I’m on the organizing committee, and we announced the figure during our look ahead to next year on Saturday evening. As I’ve said before, PulpFest is the people […]
It’s Saturday, the last full day of PulpFest 2026. Yesterday was full of shopping in the dealers’ room, as well as eight presentations related to pulp magazines, including Amazing Stories, Ghost Stories, Jack London, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The evening ended with a FarmerCon social time and a movie. Today, the dealers’ room opened again […]
Yesterday was early-bird shopping in the dealers’ room; today and tomorrow, the dealers’ room is open to all PulpFest members. PulpFest 2026’s programming got full steam underway with an evening packed with presentations — from Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories to Doc Savage’s amazing stories to Ray Palmer’s The Shaver Mystery. Programming resumes shortly after noon […]
Today’s the first full day of PulpFest 2026. I will be posting photos from PulpFest to ThePulp.Net’s Instagram feed throughout the day, so check back if there aren’t too many images already showing below. Wednesday night kicked things off with a terrific presentation by Edgar Rice Burroughs expert Henry G. Franke III and artist Mark […]
The cars are loaded, and Jeff Shanks and I on the road to PulpFest 2026 this morning. It’s a bit of a drive from Tallahassee. we’ll be arriving in Mars, Penn., on the northern side of Pittsburgh, tomorrow. For the most part, Wednesday will be devoted to setting up for the convention. There is one […]
This year marks a number of anniversaries: 130 years since The Argosy became the first pulp magazine; 100 years since the first science-fiction pulp, Amazing Stories, hit newsstands; 30 years since ThePulp.Net first appeared online as .Pulp; and 20 years since I made the first post on this blog, Yellowed Perils. Now, I’m not saying […]
A new episode of our Pulp Tales podcast dropped earlier, and this one is different from the others. Unlike the 133 prior episodes, which were recorded at PulpFest and other conventions, this is a stand-alone one. It’s the first of The Tonik Tapes. I first met Albert Tonik at Pulpcon in the mid-2000s, but I […]
Websites (and blogs) are here one day, and gone the next. As a result, I’ve been letting link rot* catch up to me the past few years. (*You know, dead links to long-vanished sites.) Well, since ThePulp.Net is still around after 30 years, I thought I should devote some time to updating it. I’ve been […]
It’s March 3, 2026, today. That’s over a quarter century into the 21st century, and almost 130 years since The Argosy made its pivotal shift to all fiction and pulp paper in late 1896. And, to a lesser extent (but still worth celebrating), this month marks the 30th anniversary of when ThePulp.Net first appeared online […]
