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eBook Category: Fantasy/Horror
eBook Description: Amazing Heroes harkens back to the days of Weird Tales and Thrilling Wonder. Eighteen Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Crime and Mystery, Western and other tales in the Pulp tradition.

eBook Publisher: Cyber-Pulp Press, Published: 2004
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2004

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Words: 92585
Reading time: 264-370 min.
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INTRODUCTION

The Pulps, the cheap magazines of the 1920s-50s, were entertainment literature. And the heart of the Pulps were heroes. And heroines. (Though, these days "hero" can be applied to either sex.) Their names are legends: Conan the Cimmerian, Jirel of Joiry, Captain Future, Hawk Carse, Jules de Grandin, Fafhrd & Grey Mouser ... The list goes on. The countless magazines of science fiction, horror, adventure, mystery and fantasy were filled to the brim with muscle-bulging, mind-blowing supermen and women. The closest thing we have to it today are comic books. And the occasional John Woo film.

Genres fiction has become more sophisticated under the guidance of editors like John W. Campbell, Anthony Boucher and many others. The tale of SF, fantasy or horror now has many literary aspects. More worthy as literature, but just a little less fun. This book, in its own small way, will attempt to rectify that change.

Amazing Heroes promises some of that excitement of yesteryear. These new stories are filled with heroes too, and adventure and--well, you get the idea. There are some familiar faces to those who collect Cyber-Pulp books: Jack Mackenzie's Da Vinci is back, C. J. Burch's fantastic Dumond and Hamerskjold as well as my own Mythos hero, The Book Collector. There are plenty of new faces too. Some are brave and honest and determined. Others are evil, wicked and powerful in their own way. Whether you cheer for them or not, they are all amazing characters. They may not dazzle you with their literary-ness or their deep philosophy (and some may at that.). But they won't bore you. These are edge-of-the-seat folks. And what more can you ask for than that? So sit back and imagine you are one of those readers who existed before the advent of television and you are settling down to a copy of Weird Tales or The Strand...

G. W. Thomas