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Post by philb on May 27, 2005 7:15:45 GMT -5
I've recently taken an interest in pulp books that are set during WWII, and I've been able to find a few titles, although there really isn't that much out there. I noticed that you don't have any of these books in the database, so I'll list them here in case you want to include them.
Boxer Unit OSS- Ned Cort (5 books in the series)
Force Five- Jeff Rovin (It appears there were only 3 books in this series)
Mac Wingate- Bryan Swift (There are 11 books in this series)
Resistance- Gregory St. Germain (There are 6 books in this series)
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Post by PMP Webmaster on May 27, 2005 10:37:38 GMT -5
Actually, I've got, I believe, *one* series - "The Rat Bastards", by John Mackie. It was put out by Jove Books from '83 to '86 and as far as I can tell there were around 16 volumes.
Interesting that you should be getting into this sub-genre, because rumor has it that Quentin Tarantino's latest film project will be a WW2 movie (also rumored to be a trilogy) called the "Inglorious Bastards". Sounds like is own version of "the Dirty Dozen". Should be entertaining and violent as hell, if nothing else.
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Post by philb on May 27, 2005 16:19:00 GMT -5
Michael Madsen was quoted as saying the script reads a bit like the "Dirty Dozen." It comes as no surprise since Tarantino is supposedly a big fan of this movie as well as "Where Eagles Dare" and "The Guns of Navarone", and has always wanted to do a "men-on-a-mission" film. The idea for "Inglorious Bastards" comes from an Italian movie of the same name, made in the 1970s, and is reported to be one of Tarantino's favorites. You can see a review of this movie here: www.angelfire.com/film/eurowar/deadlymission.htmlI'm really curious to see what Tarantino does with this...I just hope it isn't cheesy. It would great if he could make a kick-ass WWII movie with the same feel as "Dirty Dozen"...I'm going to keep my fingers crossed and hope he pulls it off.
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Post by Django The Bastard on Mar 4, 2006 16:02:22 GMT -5
I'm with you there...Nolan is too close to the Chandler/Hammet/MacDonald school to be a paperback vigilante. No doubt...but just as the pre-war pulps featured more than just the vigilante heroes often associated with the genre like The Shadow, The Whisperer, and The Spider... ...so is the world of post-modern pulps made up of more than just the "Mafia-buster" vigilante genre...Richard Blade for example...post modern pulp---for sure---but no "Cosa Nostra-crusher" there! The original pulps gave the world Conan, Sam Spade, and G-8...the post moderns gave us Brak, Bennett and The Sergeant! Post-modern and available in many flavors of purple prosed goodness...now with twice the PULP!
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Post by jaden3 on Jul 14, 2006 1:25:16 GMT -5
Another couple for the list..
Seal Team Seven by Keith Douglass
The Home Team by Dennis Chalker (USN ret.) and Kevin Dockery
cheers John
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Jul 14, 2006 8:32:52 GMT -5
I've got the Seal Team Seven volume titled "Deathrace" - I will definitely have to give it a read at some point and check it out.
What's The Home Team about? Another "kill squad" type series?
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Post by jaden3 on Jul 15, 2006 9:16:47 GMT -5
Yeah, the Home Team is about an ex Navy SEAL who gets together with some of his buddys when his family is threatened by drug dealers. Trouble is the dealers are linked to Islamic terrorists, so the "team" ends up dealing with them as well. I only have the first book The Home Team: Undeclared War.. and until last week, I didn't realise there were any others.. Now I plan on tracking them down. Cheers John
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Post by Django The Bastard on Jul 31, 2006 17:10:51 GMT -5
I like the Seal Team Seven series...very realistic...at least the couple I read were...The Home Team is probably well written as well...the authors are very well versed....Chalker is ex-SEAL and Dockery has written some fine non-fiction...I have all three volumes so far in the series...not that I have had a chance to read 'em yet...same with the recent series Delta Force, Force 5 Recon, and Detachment Delta...have several in each...so may books so little time...
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Post by waverley92 on Aug 30, 2006 3:41:47 GMT -5
Would you class Micky Spillane's "Mike Hammer" series as part of this discussion. these started in the 1940s and were very much part of the pulp fiction genre. i also remeber from the 1970s a real trashy series. "Coxman" by i think an author called Troy Conway . There was a huge series of books which were spy capers. The Coxman was an enormous hit with the ladies in every sense of the word, and the title Coxman speaks for itself.
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Aug 30, 2006 18:18:19 GMT -5
It's tough to say. You have the "Pulp Fiction" genre, which, while forming in the 20's and 30's, carries through in one form or another into the present day.
What I've generally chosen to focus on here, at least, is what I refer to as "Post-Modern Pulp Fiction", which I loosely define as coming around the same time, give or take a decade, as "post-modernism" in art. For me, PMPF begins with the shift in popular culture you see during the Vietnam war both in music, film, and here in literature, where things get darker, the lines between "good guy" and "bad guy" get more muddled, and things take on a more cynical, more sinister tone.
Now, that's not to say those elements didn't exist before. Conan wasn't really a nice guy, nor was The Shadow really. But in the 60's and 70's, there's a lot of the feel of desperation coming out - The Executioner (in the book) is born out of a need for vigilante justice because crime is rampant and the cops can't (or won't) stop it. The Destroyer comes about because the government has tied it's own hands and needs a way to get the job done outside the law. The Death Merchant is born out of the dozens of Cold War trouble spots around the world and all the hatreds and paranoia that caused. On the surface many of these characters share similarities with their counterparts in the pre-WW2 era pulps, but I feel there's a more sobering backstory, in a collective social consciousness sense, with the Post-Vietnam works.
BUT, all that said and done, PLEASE feel free to discuss any pulpy, actiony series you've got interested in. Our members read it all! Heck, I got my mother in law, of all people, to read some of Sax Rhomer's Fu Manchu stories!
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Post by baronvoncool on Aug 30, 2006 19:49:10 GMT -5
Would you class Micky Spillane's "Mike Hammer" series as part of this discussion. these started in the 1940s and were very much part of the pulp fiction genre. I would! They are some of the best hard-boiled books I've ever read.
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Post by ScottFree on Sept 28, 2006 9:06:10 GMT -5
I was recently looking over my book catalog and rediscovered these hidden little gems and was reminded of this site.
The Fighting Saga of the S.A.S. written by James Albany (real name: Hugh C. Rae), published by Pinnacle Books from 1982 until 1984 with a total of 7 books. Books are set during WWII and the formation of the S.A.S.
Dennison's War written by Adam Lassiter. Bantam Books published at least 6 books from 1984 until 1986.
Scott
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Post by ScottFree on Sept 28, 2006 9:41:07 GMT -5
I was looking at the master list of PMP series and I saw Vietnam: Ground Zero but what I did not see was the 4 book series that led directly into V:GZ.
That series is The Scorpion Squad, published by Pinnacle Books from 1984 until 1985, written by "Eric Helm" and contained the same characters that appeared in V:GZ.
Scott
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Post by PMP Webmaster on Sept 28, 2006 11:31:03 GMT -5
Interesting re: Scorpion Squad, thanks Scott. I really need to get around to updating that master list...sigh...so many books, so little time.
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Post by ScottFree on Sept 28, 2006 20:52:48 GMT -5
Interesting re: Scorpion Squad, thanks Scott. I really need to get around to updating that master list...sigh...so many books, so little time. I was surprised when I discovered that fact. Hate to add insult to injury but I found 3 more titles to add to the list. But here they are: Casca: The Eternal Mercenary by Barry Sadler. Ran 24 volumes and were published by Ace/Charter Books (#1-22) in the 80's and early '90s, #23-24 by Jove Books in 1999 and 2001. 1st book written by Barry Sadler, the rest by various writers. Notable: This is the Barry Sadler who wrote the Ballad of the Green Berets. Barry Sadler was a Green Beret in Vietnam. Saigon Commandos by Jonathan Cain. 12 books published by Zebra. Ran 12 books from '83 to '86. Solder of Fortune by Peter McCurtain. Published by Leisure Adventure in the 80's. Scott
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