Afterword on the history of pulp paperbacks
Digitized from rare pulp edition
Farrant wa» a good man - maybe too good, with his easygoing humor and wry acknowledgment that he was something of a dunderhead among a flock of super-experts.
Yet Farrant committed at least one particularly bloody killing - and then couldn't remember that his victim was dead.
How many others had he killed?
What was the secret locked in his mind - the secret that affected the lives of everybody on the island, and which would eventually uncover the secret of AGNES itself?
Fire Past The Future is an excellent example of the oft-heard statement that the science fiction writers of the fifties and sixties pored over the science and invention magazines and were aware of what was on the horizon or within research. The information about atomic energy, space exploration and anti-gravity is extremely interesting. Such data is woven within a fascinating story of exploration, rocketry and even murder. If you know of or have heard of the Lorentz-Fitzgerald theory, you'll love this story!
About Vintage Paperback Pulp Fiction:
A new revolution was underway at the start of the 1940s in America - a paperback revolution that would change the way publishers would produce and distribute books and the reading public would consume them. In 1939 a new publishing company - Pocket Books - stormed onto the scene with the publication of its first paperbound book. Unlike hardback books, these pulp paperbacks were inexpensive and readily available everywhere. The American public could not get enough of them.
During the 1940s, mysteries and romances were the hot sellers. In the early 1950s, new pulp fiction subgenres emerged - science fiction, westerns, gay & lesbian fiction, juvenile delinquent and "sleaze", for instance - that would tantalize readers with gritty, realistic and lurid stories never seen before. Publishers soon came to realize that sex sells. In a competitive frenzy for readers, they turned from straightforward "tasteful" cover images to alluring covers that frequently featured a sexy woman in some form of undress, along with a suggestive tag line that promised stories of sex and violence within the covers. To this day, the pulp cover art of these vintage paperback books is just as sought after as the books themselves were sixty years ago.
We are excited to make these wonderful pulp fiction stories available in ebook format to new generations of readers, as a new revolution - the ebook revolution - is in full swing. We hope you will enjoy this nostalgic look back at a period in American history when dames were dangerous, tough-guys were deadly and dolls were downright delicious.
Digitized from rare pulp edition
Farrant wa» a good man - maybe too good, with his easygoing humor and wry acknowledgment that he was something of a dunderhead among a flock of super-experts.
Yet Farrant committed at least one particularly bloody killing - and then couldn't remember that his victim was dead.
How many others had he killed?
What was the secret locked in his mind - the secret that affected the lives of everybody on the island, and which would eventually uncover the secret of AGNES itself?
Fire Past The Future is an excellent example of the oft-heard statement that the science fiction writers of the fifties and sixties pored over the science and invention magazines and were aware of what was on the horizon or within research. The information about atomic energy, space exploration and anti-gravity is extremely interesting. Such data is woven within a fascinating story of exploration, rocketry and even murder. If you know of or have heard of the Lorentz-Fitzgerald theory, you'll love this story!
About Vintage Paperback Pulp Fiction:
A new revolution was underway at the start of the 1940s in America - a paperback revolution that would change the way publishers would produce and distribute books and the reading public would consume them. In 1939 a new publishing company - Pocket Books - stormed onto the scene with the publication of its first paperbound book. Unlike hardback books, these pulp paperbacks were inexpensive and readily available everywhere. The American public could not get enough of them.
During the 1940s, mysteries and romances were the hot sellers. In the early 1950s, new pulp fiction subgenres emerged - science fiction, westerns, gay & lesbian fiction, juvenile delinquent and "sleaze", for instance - that would tantalize readers with gritty, realistic and lurid stories never seen before. Publishers soon came to realize that sex sells. In a competitive frenzy for readers, they turned from straightforward "tasteful" cover images to alluring covers that frequently featured a sexy woman in some form of undress, along with a suggestive tag line that promised stories of sex and violence within the covers. To this day, the pulp cover art of these vintage paperback books is just as sought after as the books themselves were sixty years ago.
We are excited to make these wonderful pulp fiction stories available in ebook format to new generations of readers, as a new revolution - the ebook revolution - is in full swing. We hope you will enjoy this nostalgic look back at a period in American history when dames were dangerous, tough-guys were deadly and dolls were downright delicious.
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