Hachette Livre, part of the media division of French corporate giant Groupe Lagardère, announced recently that it would launch two new science fiction and fantasy imprints over the coming eighteen months.
Expanding Hachette Livre UK’s Orbit science fiction imprint, the company will launch Orbit USA as part of the Hachette Book Group USA and Orbit Australia [...]

Previously in Bad Pulp, we looked at some of the artistic failures in pulp art, either of execution or of theme. In this instalment, we will look at innuendo in pulp art.
Ugly Pulp: Deliberate Innuendo
Pulp is best remembered for its contribution to noirish crime and science fiction but it infiltrated all genres, including high literature. [...]

Pulp covers are glorious even when they’re terrible. There is something about a truly hideous piece of art. Pulp covers are a treasure trove of grotesqueries. Pulp, by definition, was printed on pulp paper, the cheapest printing material available in the post-war rationing period. The ink was cheap too, and the artists often had short [...]