22/ (I mean, I don't actually find your engagement on this topic to be "crapping on me" ; it's fine, and I welcome it. I'm just using your framing to address things.)
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33/ a classic pulp tale last night, "Tumithak of the Corridors" (1932), and it's still fun, easy to read, and WELL WRITTEN. It's got a mighty barbarian hero, paper thin science, a big sword, spider villains. PURE PULP. ...and it's well written.
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35/ What interesting world building! Man kind lives deep underground, and has, for centuries. He has returned to a form of barbarism. Yet there are machines that somehow keep them alive. What an interesting world - it raises so many questions. What do we know of the hero?
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36/ "Of course he will come..has Tumithak ever failed to [ keep his promises ] ?" The whole arc of the story is spelled out. What is it that makes a man, Mr Lebowski? Is it wearing power armor as torches "gasp" in a pit of putrid soil, in a crude cavern, in a mazelike warren?
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38/ Charles R Tanner is writing trashy by-the-word pulp about alien spiders from Venus ... and yet, in half a page he has created a mysterious world we want to explore, a mysterious history we want to learn, and introduced us to a not-yet-a-man hero who always keeps his word.
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