{"id":1259,"date":"2008-10-07T07:40:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2008-10-06T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T19:41:41","slug":"pulp-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=1259","title":{"rendered":"Pulp Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pulpcover-111x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pulp Cover\" title=\"Pulp Cover\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Dark Roasted Blend has a great article on &#8220;pulp&#8221; SF magazine and book art, including examples from masters like Frank Kelly Freas and Chesley Bonestell.<\/p>\n<p>They make an interesting point, too:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the time, the artists working for the pulps weren\u2019t considered anything but cheap creatives providing cheap entertainment for cheap minds. But now we know what they were: visions of wonder, amazing vistas of the imagination, daring dreams of possibility, magnificent views of What Could Be &#8212; but most of all we look back at what they did and recognize it for being truly magnificent art.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is one of the reasons why I have a taste for pulp.  The sensawunda just <EM>drips<\/EM> from these pages.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2008\/10\/grand-old-times-in-future.html\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Roasted Blend has a great article on &#8220;pulp&#8221; SF magazine and book art, including examples from masters like Frank Kelly Freas and Chesley Bonestell. They make an interesting point, too: At the time, the artists working for the pulps weren\u2019t considered anything but cheap creatives providing cheap entertainment for cheap minds. But now we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}