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  • adjective superlative form of pulpy: most pulpy.

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Examples

  • Most of them, in fact, settled for publication in the pulpiest of magazines and the most obscure presses, in the off-chance their work might still attract readers sympathetic to what they were trying to do with it.

    Writing and Publishing 2010

  • Ostensibly the practice could inspire amateur writers to have a deeper respect for the effort required to write even the pulpiest, least refined literature, but who, with a bit of imagination, can't figure out that creating an engaging fictional world out of words takes some time?

    Brian Gresko: National Novel Writing Month Is Hooey Brian Gresko 2010

  • Dark Worlds is a "pulp descended" magazine, so I gave this one my pulpiest title ever.

    Tomb of the Amazon Queen michael 2009

  • Even Ed Hamilton at his pulpiest showed more of a connection to the universe than many of today's SF authors, alas.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Fred Kiesche 2009

  • Edit 3/31/2010 While The Dakota Cipher was the darkest Ethan Gage, this one is the lightest and pulpiest with mostly cardboard characters, but the one liners, the zaniness and the non-stop action make it an ultra-fun read though it's harder to take it even the little bit seriously for the most part, moving towards comic book territory.

    Liviu's Anticipated Novels of 2010 - collated post to be referred to and updated frequently as books come Liviu 2009

  • Even Ed Hamilton at his pulpiest showed more of a connection to the universe than many of today's SF authors, alas.

    The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009

  • Dark Worlds is a "pulp descended" magazine, so I gave this one my pulpiest title ever.

    Archive 2009-01-01 michael 2009

  • Edit 3/31/2010 While The Dakota Cipher was the darkest Ethan Gage, this one is the lightest and pulpiest with mostly cardboard characters, but the one liners, the zaniness and the non-stop action make it an ultra-fun read though it's harder to take it even the little bit seriously for the most part, moving towards comic book territory.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Liviu 2009

  • Stuart stunned readers by employing "poetic" moods and styles in magazines mostly devoted to the pulpiest of space adventures; Asimov's robot stories were deliberately set up to subvert the idea of the Frankenstein-type rampaging monster created by mad scientists; Ray Bradbury eschewed science altogether and wrote weird, imagistic parables using the props of science and science fiction.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • It doesn't all work, I don't think the symbolism becomes obvious and repetitive, though this may have been part of the point; the music is atrocious, but it's different from any other movie I've seen in its mix of brutality and elegance, its deliberate pace coupled with elements of the pulpiest thriller, and, most notably, the writer/director's willingness to leave so much unexplained or only barely hinted at.

    The Isle 2005

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