Oh, good, ReacTOR's site has switched from "are you between 13 and 15 years old?" to "are you under 18 years old?", which at least doesn't make me wonder why 1-12 is OK, 16+ is OK, but 13-15, GTFO!
Of course, if they were competent they'd also set the cookie lifetime to infinite, instead of 7 days. IT IS UNLIKELY YOUR AGE WILL REGRESS IN 7 DAYS.
Only site I've ever seen with this.
#tor #reactor #pulpsf #shittywebsites
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The James Tiptree, Jr letter's cute; I always found her dark stuff hilariously funny and her intended-to-be-comedy a little tacky.
But then the Tony Curtis anecdote. OOOow.
Having just about finished* the JMS-edited "Last Dangerous Visions", Harlan's relentless self-promotions piss me off more than ever.
* ("a pig like that you don't eat all at once!")
#scienceFiction #pulpsf #books
I really love the last 3 here, the first ones are pretty weak/formulaic. Gonna have to look Oliviero Berni up.
https://retroscifiart.tumblr.com/post/786645982976835584/art-by-italian-artist-oliviero-berni-milan-1931
#pulpsf
https://pulpcovers.com/the-cerebral-library/
I'll read the issue later, but I just appreciate the pun "anteroom" for a chamber full of giant ants.
#pulpsf #scienceFiction
Imagination pulp mag
https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?tab=collection&query=imagination&sort=title
There's some good (very pulp) stories in here. Mack Reynolds, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Eric Frank Russell. Also IIRC more women writers than usual (as in, non-zero).
#printsf #ScienceFiction #pulpsf
Just once, I'd like to see the Venusian Amazons kidnapping women from Earth as rescue missions, saving them from the men.
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