Pulp Fiction – Elegant Entropy

Homeward Bound

July 22, 2009January 6, 2020Continuum, Pulp Fiction

Within the Daedalus Matrix, which I have lovingly crafted over the past decade or so, there are about 25 systems from which to choose the one that will be the backdrop for my epic pulp

The Darkness That Comes Before

March 7, 2007January 6, 2020Art, Continuum, Pulp Fiction

Here is a history of the World. About a thousand years-standard ago (a year-standard being the length of a year on Old Earth, long lost), the stargates were first created. There is a popular myth

Toning it Down

February 20, 2007January 6, 2020Pulp Fiction, Tone

I’ve already gone on at length about the dark tone I was interested in implementing, no matter what genre I decided to use for my pulpy adventure novel. However, there is dark and there is

Shot in the Dark

February 9, 2007January 6, 2020Art, Continuum, Pulp Fiction

Just for fun, I thought I’d share an image I created for my science fiction background a long time ago. A cutline from the old website I had this on read something like, “A Kestrel-class

Back to the Future

February 8, 2007January 6, 2020Genre, Plot, Pulp Fiction

Almost as soon as decided to set my pulpy adventure novel in a contemporary background, I started thinking about it somewhere else. The nature of the story I outlined just feels to me like it

We Don’t Need Another Hero

February 6, 2007January 6, 2020Character Notes, Genealogy, Pulp Fiction

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina The main protagonist of a lot of this sort of pulp fiction can be somewhat bland. There’s

The Plot Thickens

February 6, 2007January 6, 2020Character Notes, Genealogy, Genre, Plot, Pulp Fiction

The background for the story for my pulp novel is coming together. I’ve decided, rather than trying to create something new, to use a contemporary fantasy background based on the real world, because I’m not

And the Winner is…

February 5, 2007January 6, 2020Genre, Pulp Fiction

Considering what I wrote in my entry the other day about genre, a thought occurred to me. Did I really want to get bogged down in world building yet again? Sure, I enjoy creating a

Promises in the Dark

February 5, 2007January 6, 2020Character Notes, Genre, Pulp Fiction

I finally got around to seeing Brian De Palma’s Black Dahlia this weekend. I’m not a huge fan of De Palma’s work, over all. He’s incredibly skilled at creating compelling scenes and dense, flavorful atmosphere,

Orchestral Movements in the Dark

February 2, 2007January 6, 2020Genre, Pulp Fiction

I like the dark. I will admit it; pretty much all of my writing projects in the past have had the lights down low, assuming they had any lights on at all. It could be