There’s a weird period between 1890s-1910s when pulp fiction was enabled by cheap offset printing on cheap paper. You’ve got some EUs like Tarzan in the 1910s, but the big ones begin in the late 20s. Buck Rogers is 1928. Flash Gordon is 1934.
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There will be a rush of talent trying to do the Woolf/Hemingway/Fitzgerald type thing. EUs will be in a countercyclic slump.
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So... I rarely make predictions like this, but I think there will be a genre fiction recession for a decade. And less confidentially, a literary fiction boom (stuff people actually read, not MFA program lit)
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I was going back and forth about PG Wodehouse. I’d classify it as Edwardian nostalgia mostly set in the 20s. He wrote mostly in the 20s/30s but began writing it pre-WW1. Bertie Wooster and Lord Emsworth both first appear in 1915.https://twitter.com/kapilgupta/status/1318421606499274753?s=21 …
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He’s not a hybrid between old and new. He was just pure escapist nostalgia for a vanishing world even in his own time. He basically ignored all the bad shit going down. It’s basically a funny version of Downton Abbey.
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Wonder if there’s a good survey of world literature 1910-1940 in relation to its historical context.
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Hmm randomly trawling for stuff down this bunny trail I remember reading most of the Biggles series as a kid. A fictional fighter pilot turned “air detective” with career spanning WWI to 1950s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles
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Hmm. HP Lovecraft is to post WW1 apocalyptic conditions as Godzilla is to post WW2?
An extended anti-universe of forces that destroy human attempts at creating universes.https://twitter.com/bysl/status/1318446561190322177?s=21 …Show this thread
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