Post by Frank Creed on Apr 19, 2008 13:52:25 GMT -5
What do Buck Rodgers, Zorro, and Flash Gordon have in common? All were heroes born in the pages of pulp fiction magazines that became cultural icons.
With television and comic books taking over, pulp fiction disappeared. Short story magazines have become filled with forgettable one shot characters. The age of easy to afford, quality fiction has passed.
Or Has It?
This is where Laser & Sword Magazine comes in. Laser & Sword seeks to bring back the fun and excitement of pulp fiction and early comic books in an action short story magazine. Like the pulps of old, Laser & Sword has a serial format. One story builds upon another. The characters and stories transport readers into exciting adventures. The magazine is available for download online at a cost of $1.25 an issue, well below national costs, thus recreating the effect of the pulps-to bring quality stories to people at a reasonable price.
We launched in January with two series and added a third in our April issue:
“The Order of the Sword” features a new universe of costumed heroes as they begin an exciting adventure that will take them to a dangerous new world.
Our dystopia, “Rise of the Judge,” tells the story of a hard luck teenage boy who, to dodge a hate crime rap for the attempted lynching of a child molester, joins the army of the one-world government a post-New World Order America has succumbed to.
In the hilarious parody, “Tales of the Dim Knight,” a mild-mannered janitor goes from Superfan to Superhero when he discovers a mysterious alien cylinder.
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I highly recommend the Laser & Sword. Adam Graham is a talented young writer whose sense of humor is infused into all his writing projects. I had the privilege of being published with Adam and Andrea Graham in the 2007 speculative fiction anthology, Light at the Edge of Darkness
You can download Issue 1 for free; Issue II can be downloaded for $1.25 OR, you can purchase the print version, as I did, and start your own collection from the ground up!
Laser & Sword Magazine
Faith,
f
With television and comic books taking over, pulp fiction disappeared. Short story magazines have become filled with forgettable one shot characters. The age of easy to afford, quality fiction has passed.
Or Has It?
This is where Laser & Sword Magazine comes in. Laser & Sword seeks to bring back the fun and excitement of pulp fiction and early comic books in an action short story magazine. Like the pulps of old, Laser & Sword has a serial format. One story builds upon another. The characters and stories transport readers into exciting adventures. The magazine is available for download online at a cost of $1.25 an issue, well below national costs, thus recreating the effect of the pulps-to bring quality stories to people at a reasonable price.
We launched in January with two series and added a third in our April issue:
“The Order of the Sword” features a new universe of costumed heroes as they begin an exciting adventure that will take them to a dangerous new world.
Our dystopia, “Rise of the Judge,” tells the story of a hard luck teenage boy who, to dodge a hate crime rap for the attempted lynching of a child molester, joins the army of the one-world government a post-New World Order America has succumbed to.
In the hilarious parody, “Tales of the Dim Knight,” a mild-mannered janitor goes from Superfan to Superhero when he discovers a mysterious alien cylinder.
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I highly recommend the Laser & Sword. Adam Graham is a talented young writer whose sense of humor is infused into all his writing projects. I had the privilege of being published with Adam and Andrea Graham in the 2007 speculative fiction anthology, Light at the Edge of Darkness
You can download Issue 1 for free; Issue II can be downloaded for $1.25 OR, you can purchase the print version, as I did, and start your own collection from the ground up!
Laser & Sword Magazine
Faith,
f