Today is publication day for SMFS list member Gary
Phillips’ new book, The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp
Collection. Published by Three Rooms Press, the read is available in digital
and print at the publisher,
Amazon,
and other vendors.
Publisher Description:
Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary
Phillips gathers his most thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an
17-story collection that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction,
noir, and superhero classics. Aztec vampires, astral projecting killers, oxygen
stealing bombs, undercover space rangers, aliens occupying Los Angeles, right
wing specters haunting the ’hood, masked vigilantes and mad scientists in their
underground lairs plotting world domination populate the stories in this
rip-snorting collection. In these pages grindhouse melds with blaxploitation
along with strong doses of B movie hardcore drive-in fare. Phillips, editor of
the Anthony Award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy
Noir, and author of One-Shot Harry, and Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of
Harlem, said this about pulp. “The most common definition of pulp is it’s
fast-paced, a story containing out there characters and a wild plot. There is
that. But certainly, as we’ve now arrived at the era of retro-pulp, these
stories have elements of characterization…not just action but a glimpse behind
the steely eyes of these doers of incredible deeds.” As an added bonus,
Phillips resurrects Phantasmo, a Golden Age comics character created by Black
artist-writer E.C. Stoner in an all-new outing of ethereal doings.
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