Pulps: any recommendations?

[Romani]

Hey, I know it's not history, but neither are movies. Just as sometimes junk food tastes good, I happen to indulge sometimes in trashy entertainment.

So, after searching the internet for Bill Barnes novels for my dad, I think they are good reading and I am wondering what else can be found out there. Biggles doesn't have appeal for me but I am feeling curious G-8 and his Battle Aces, what's it all about? It's any good? At the very least the covers are great!

[greenknight]

Romani,

Perhaps you have found this stuff already, but for you and for anyone else who might be interested, there's a neat Gallery of "G-8" covers here:

http://bill_mann.home.att.net/

You will also find a selection of pulp stories reproduced online here:

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~idesign/archive.html

[Romani]

Hey, thanks a lot, that was just what I was looking for! Now I finally get it about those infamous "Purple Aces" threads, I thought that those people had inhaled too much glue fumes, but now.. you mean there's a book?

G-8 novels are probably unreadable trash, but the concept is very intriguing and can't believe it was done in the 1930s. I am surprised that with the proliferation of alternative history themes and pulp games such as Gearkrieg, nobody has jumped onto this franchise yet and made a roleplaying game or something. Zombie German pilots wielding Gatling guns is just what our hobby needs to draw the younger generation !

Mm, perhaps I should make my own game.

[Colin A Owers]

Way back when I was younger, in the 1960s I think, they reprinted G-8 and his Battle Aces in a series of paperbacks. I got the first two, but there were more before the series stopped.

Having heard about G-8 and the pulps I always wanted to read a G-8, I was not disappointed. They are trashy and "Coffin-nosed Fokkers" pursue our heros in their Spads to the inevitable good guys winning.

Fun stuff, but very dated.

You can probably pick them up somewhere from specialist bookshops.

Colin A Owers

[G. Scott Long]

Guys,
Adventure House Publishing is reprinting the G-8 series about once every 3 months in the original size with the original covers. They are currently on issue #20.Check out their website, for 10.00 an issue they're pretty cool!
best wishes,
Scott