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Step aside boys it’s the women’s turn. Pulp Press and For Books’ Sake have teamed up to bring you a collection of the best new pulp fiction short stories from the most savage, brutal bunch of broads we could find on these fair shores. We serve up a delicious stack of hard-bitten tales smothered in sweet revenge and a dollop of pure weirdness, delivered by a limey waitress with an eye patch and a snarl. Britain isn’t all tea and toffs…
Featuring stories from: Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, Donna Moore, Bernadette Russell, Jane Osis, Zoe Lambert, Icy Sedgwick, Evangeline Jennings, Gill Shutt, Claire Rowland and Mihaela Nicolescu.
Featuring stories from: Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg, Donna Moore, Bernadette Russell, Jane Osis, Zoe Lambert, Icy Sedgwick, Evangeline Jennings, Gill Shutt, Claire Rowland and Mihaela Nicolescu.
90 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 5, 2011
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Icy Sedgwick
39 books125 followersFantasy with a Folklore Twist
Icy Sedgwick is a writer based in the north east of England. She writes Gothic-tinged not-quite-YA fantasy novels and Gothic short stories. Icy is also working on a series of experiments in historical fiction with Australian composer AJ Moon, combining spoken word stories with originally composed music. When she's not writing fiction, she's blogging about folklore and the supernatural.
Elsewhere, she's working on a PhD in Film Studies, looking at the use of set design in contemporary supernatural films. She also knits up a storm, enjoys poking around old buildings, and takes more photographs than she probably should.
Icy Sedgwick is a writer based in the north east of England. She writes Gothic-tinged not-quite-YA fantasy novels and Gothic short stories. Icy is also working on a series of experiments in historical fiction with Australian composer AJ Moon, combining spoken word stories with originally composed music. When she's not writing fiction, she's blogging about folklore and the supernatural.
Elsewhere, she's working on a PhD in Film Studies, looking at the use of set design in contemporary supernatural films. She also knits up a storm, enjoys poking around old buildings, and takes more photographs than she probably should.
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June 30, 2014
If you like your pulp fiction short, dark and with a kick arse female lead then this collection is for you.In 'Depravity Lane'(Donna Moore)and 'Her name was Lola' (Bernadette Russell),which are the bookends to the collection we have the old broads with a past,everyone loves a broad with a past don't they?
In between are the younger protagonists; Lily (Stations' Evangeline Jennings)a cold, calculating young woman out for revenge in Camden(incidentaly, a sort of prequel to this is in the Pankhearst title'Heathers');The freaky Niki in 'Strawberries'by Mihaela Nicolescu who gets revenge on an even bigger monster than herself;Ali, a mixed race young woman in the midst of the uncertainty of teenage life;Mary Franklin , an xeonbiologist who receives messages from the future from a far of planet which she is fated to fix;The terrifying Polly in 'Dollhouse'by Clare Rowland is no short of a horror parable for the 'playa's'; A post apocalyptic figure whose only wish is to settle the score before she dies; The everywoman Lisa, adjusting to the world populated by Zombies in 'Their last Holiday' by Zoe Lambert.
'One Woman Cure' by Icy Sedgwick was however the crowning jewel in this collection, the writing is mesmerising as we follow the modified 'Artemis Hyde', discover who she is and what she is in this steampunk-esque /x-women its easy to imagine this story being presented in a graphic novel.
Pulp fiction? Woman Writers do it better.
In between are the younger protagonists; Lily (Stations' Evangeline Jennings)a cold, calculating young woman out for revenge in Camden(incidentaly, a sort of prequel to this is in the Pankhearst title'Heathers');The freaky Niki in 'Strawberries'by Mihaela Nicolescu who gets revenge on an even bigger monster than herself;Ali, a mixed race young woman in the midst of the uncertainty of teenage life;Mary Franklin , an xeonbiologist who receives messages from the future from a far of planet which she is fated to fix;The terrifying Polly in 'Dollhouse'by Clare Rowland is no short of a horror parable for the 'playa's'; A post apocalyptic figure whose only wish is to settle the score before she dies; The everywoman Lisa, adjusting to the world populated by Zombies in 'Their last Holiday' by Zoe Lambert.
'One Woman Cure' by Icy Sedgwick was however the crowning jewel in this collection, the writing is mesmerising as we follow the modified 'Artemis Hyde', discover who she is and what she is in this steampunk-esque /x-women its easy to imagine this story being presented in a graphic novel.
Pulp fiction? Woman Writers do it better.
July 20, 2016
I had never read any pulp fiction and had stayed away from sci-fi and fantasy before I read this book. I decided to give it a read because I wanted to branch out and start reading and writing new styles and themes and I'm really glad I did.
This book is full of unusual and unique stories that are based in a range of settings and it is full of stimulating characters and themes.
This book is full of unusual and unique stories that are based in a range of settings and it is full of stimulating characters and themes.
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