Author J.D. Cowan returns with a new volume that gives readers the autopsy report on what – or who – killed the pulps.
Once upon a time, there was a tradition of storytelling that went back into the Gothic romances all the way through the fairy tales into the classics. It was a world without genre boundaries, checked boxes, and corporate writing workshops. This tradition created all the things you grew up with, the stories and ideas you hold dear, and the beating heart of adventure that has sustained us since the beginning of recorded history.
And then it was destroyed.
Learn how a gaggle of Fanatics poisoned the well of discourse and imagination by turning storytelling into mechanical formulas with rules and boundaries that never existed before. Who gave them this power, and how much of their garbage still taints discourse and the industry today? In The Last Fanatic, all will be laid bare.
It is time for the truth to be shouted out loud!
This is no puff piece, either. It’s 400 well-researched pages of info that oldpub – and fandom – wanted kept in the memory hole. Add in a foreword by legendary Appendix N scribe Jeffro Johnson, and you’ve got a publishing industry exposé with a pedigree to back up its challenge to the status quo.
Learn the truth that Pop Cult fanatics don’t want you to know.
