I'm trying to locate a book that I used to have as a youngster which was a large-ish softback book with beautiful colour reproductions of pulp sci-fi cover art like Amazing Stories/Worlds Of Tomorrow type stuff. I have Forrest Ackerman's 2004 book 'Worlds Of Tomorrow' but would love to track this other book down again. I'm imagining it came out around the very early 80's sometime, possibly even late 70's. Any clues/leads much appreciated!
― SoftDog (MaresNest), Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago)
I don't know when you were a youngster, but how about this one?
http://www.amazon.com/Pulp-Art-Original-Paintings-Magazines/dp/1402730357/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1288456573&sr=8-1
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.oldsfbooks.com/pulpcovers.html
6000 pulp cover scans on one DVD for $30
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago)
Sorry, I missed that you specified late 70s/early 80s.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Saturday, 30 October 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago)
Also not the book you're looking for, but --
http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Era-American-Pulp-Magazines/dp/1556523890/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288458003&sr=1-5
The Classic Era of American Pulp Magazines
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Saturday, 30 October 2010 17:06 (fourteen years ago)
Thanks for taking the time to make those suggestions WmC, I'm especially tempted by that DVD.
― SoftDog (MaresNest), Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago)
No prob...I was interested in pulps myself back in the 70s/80s, and that DVD does look pretty cool. Still trying to think what that book might have been.
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago)
Shit, I'm pretty sure I had the same book--looking for it now, I cannot find it.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Sunday, 31 October 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago)
*prays*
― SoftDog (MaresNest), Sunday, 31 October 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago)
Was it this?
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/x0/x1058.jpgScience Fiction Art (1975) by Brian Aldiss
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Sunday, 31 October 2010 22:32 (fourteen years ago)
Well, I guess we'll never know.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 4 November 2010 08:06 (fourteen years ago)
Heh, sorry for the delay James, having one of those weeks. I *think* it might be, but with a different cover. I've just tracked one down and bought it from EBay, so I will be sure to let you know! And thanks!
― SoftDog (MaresNest), Thursday, 4 November 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago)
There's probably enough here to fill a book: http://www.pulpoftheday.com/
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 4 November 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago)
Thats one cool site ET.
― SoftDog (MaresNest), Friday, 5 November 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago)
Okay, so I got the Aldiss book through from EBay and I'm not sorry to say it isn't the correct one, becuase it's really great. Between the Ackermann book and this I may have subsumed my nostalgia jones. A lot less bugged that I might never find that orignal book now. Thanks to the ILC hivemind.
― SoftDog (MaresNest), Thursday, 11 November 2010 10:59 (fourteen years ago)
Cool! I wonder what the original was, though. Hmmmm.
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago)