Pulps V: in search of more posts

Fortunately, it's multiple choice.


Sippy cups vs snow globes...in spaace!


The invasion of the light-bulb people didn't last very long.

#2. Do you want fries with that?

The second magazine has a story by the notorious Richard S. Shaver. Look him up for a fascinating account of one of the looniest chapters in sci-fi history.

>3 TorMented: TorMented, now that I have reviewed the Wikipedia article about him, I recall reading some book about some adventure in underground Lemuria as an elementary school-age kid. My impression now is that I thought it was a weird but interesting book that was very different from the rest of the books in the local United Methodist church's library. It was in with the Tom Swift books, if memory serves me right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharpe_Shaver

>3 TorMented: Fascinating indeed! I looked at both the Wiki and SF Encyclopedia. I'd heard of the whole Lemuria thing but was fuzzy on details.

Just think, if he'd been better at organization, he coulda pipped L. Ron to the SF-fake-religion millions!

>4 EndofDiskOne: My BFF volunteered to reorganize her church's library about 15 years ago, and she found some real doozies. Not anything quite this weird, but many works we all went WTF about. Apparently at some point one of the parishioners died and her 70s-80s trashy bodice rippers were donated. All were agreed that tales of lust with greed weren't appropriate for a church library. The new minister was quite taken aback and even her atheist friends were disapproving.

She trashed much dated material, organized what was left, and brought it up to date for both adults and kids.

Curation: it's a good thing.

#1: Would you say the Earthlings down right are outstanding in their field? :) I really can't interpret the hatless scientist's expression. It may not be professional.

#2: I've no idea what's going on there. What are the guys in the Slurpee cups attacking for? Or with? Or why? And did WM Jr. mix up the titles when he was simultaneously submitting this SF work and a different porn story?

#3: Lightbulb aliens or soap bubble aliens? Either way, they're no match for his... squirt gun filled with (squints) Coca-Cola. If I was the distressed damsel, I'd get behind him instead of being a smartly-dressed human shield. Mrs. Kuttner (CL Moore) would have disapproved of this one. Though that's a perfect dress for the gal's figure.

>1 bam2001: Thanks for these, Bruce!

It's going to be hard to top sporcs* and globes, though #1 is trying to.

*I love that this place has generated a new running gag -- good job, @paradoxosalpha

I read "I Remember Lemuria." It's a fascinating read. Not because it's a good novel. But it's like looking into the mind of a pagan mystic who is worshiping demigods and mythological creatures. (And this despite the sc-fi setting.)

The Church of the SubGenius took up a few conspicuous Shaverisms.

>10 paradoxosalpha: So I learned yesterday after a Wiki walk.

@Tor: He had some remarkably detailed and successful hallucinations/delusions during his worst schizophrenic periods, which is where the Lemuria stories came from.