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Much of our 2012 programming revolves around birthdays. Both Tarzan and John Carter, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ two most popular heroes, turn 100 this year. And Robert E. Howard’s Conan reaches eighty. We’re celebrating these important occasions with presentations devoted to these characters and their creators. But 2012 marks another important anniversary in pulp history.

This summer’s PulpFest will begin almost 75 years to the day after the September 1937 Astounding Stories hit newsstands across the nation. That issue was the first to benefit from the input of John W. Campbell, a pioneering science-fiction writer hired to assist F. Orlin Tremaine, who had been at the magazine’s helm since Street & Smith purchased it from publisher William Clayton in 1933. With Tremaine’s guidance, Astounding had become the preeminent SF pulp, but its best days were yet to come. Just a few months after joining the magazine’s staff, Campbell assumed full editorial control of the monthly and promptly instituted policies that ushered in what later became known as the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

Within a few short years, John Campbell had assembled a stable of writers that included talented newcomers and reliable mainstays alike. His roster of contributors was unparalleled by any other magazine in the field, and the first six years of his tenure as editor saw the publication of such classic science-fiction stories as "Slan," "Who Goes There?", "Final Blackout," "Sixth Column," "Methuselah’s Children," "Beyond This Horizon," "Gather, Darkness!", three of E. E. Smith’s "Lensman" novels and the early installments of Isaac Asimov’s "Foundation" series.

PulpFest 2012 will honor this remarkably fecund period in Astounding’s long history with a unique presentation. Rather than entrust it to a single speaker or a panel of enthusiasts, our salute to Campbell and the magazine’s Golden Age will be conducted by Garyn G. Roberts, PhD., and Blood ‘n’ Thunder editor Ed Hulse. Both are well qualified to discuss Campbell’s influence and Astounding’s peak years: Roberts is a popular culture professor and the editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2000), while Hulse has written extensively about Astounding’s Golden Age, most recently in The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps (2007).

Roberts and Hulse will take a Siskel-and-Ebert approach to their conversation, citing their favorite Astounding authors and stories while debating the merits of individual yarns that appeared in the magazine during the years under review. Their discussion will be accompanied by a slideshow of Astounding covers from September 1937 to November 1943. We’re not aware of any pulp-convention presentation that has employed this format, and we think it’ll be something special.

One hundred years ago in March of 1912, readers of Munsey’s The All-Story, were nearing the halfway point of a six-part serial entitled "Under the Moons of Mars," a story credited to Norman Bean. The work of a new fiction writer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the novel tells the tale of Captain Jack Carter of Virginia, and of his adventures on the planet Mars.

First advertised in the January 1912 issue of The All-Story as "a surprisingly vivid Interplanetary romance," the original pulp version of Burroughs novel began with an editor’s note:

At the time of his demise, John Carter was a man of uncertain age and vast experience, honorable and abounding with true fellowship. He stood a good two inches over six feet, was broad of shoulder and narrow of hip, with the carriage of the trained fighting man. His features were regular and clear-cut, his eyes steel gray, reflecting a strong and loyal character. He was a Southerner of the highest type. He had enlisted at the outbreak of the War, fought through the four years and had been honorably discharged. Then for more than a decade he was gone from the sight of his fellows. When he returned he had changed, there was a kind of wistful longing and hopeless misery in his eyes, and he would sit for hours at night, staring up into the starlit heavens.

Thus was the reader of a century ago drawn into the mystery of Captain Jack. In the pages that followed that brief editor’s note and for the five issues thereafter, the readers of The All-Story were told a most wondrous tale, of four-armed Tharks and red-skinned Heliumites, of fantastic airships and many-legged thoats, of  vast dead seas and long-abandoned cities, and of a lost princess and the man from another world who won her heart, all created by a gifted storyteller named Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Now, one-hundred years later, a new audience will be introduced to Captain Jack. In less than a week’s time, Disney’s John Carter will debut in theaters everywhere and another generation will thrill to Burroughs’ imaginings. PulpFest 2012 will be honoring the wonderful creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs beginning on August 9th at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Register now for the summer’s great pulp con!

The cover art above is by Clinton Pettee for the April 1912 issue of The All-Story. The scan is from Galactic Central.

PulpFest 2012 is very pleased to welcome science-fiction writer Mike Resnick as its guest of honor. With this year being the hundredth anniversary of the start of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ writing career, it is fitting that our guest of honor is an author who, early in his career, "wanted nothing more than to write books in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs" (ERBmania!). Mike’s first published work of science fiction, The Forgotten Sea of Mars, was a sequel to Burroughs’ Llana of Gathol. After its release in 1965, Resnick transformed and expanded the story into The Goddess of Ganymede, published by Donald Grant in hardcover in 1967, followed by a paperback sequel, Pursuit on Ganymede. A fourth novel, Redbeard, was published by Lancer Books. It was inspired by the tremendous success of Robert E. Howard’s Conan series then being produced by Lancer.

Although Mike’s initial foray into science fiction was heavily influenced by the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs, it was not what he wanted to be remembered for: "It’s not that they were bad books for what they were, which were Burroughs pastiches, but I hate to have people thinking that’s what I write when I sit down to write a Mike Resnick book" (Burroughs Bulletin).

Realizing he had made a false start, Resnick stopped writing science fiction in 1968 and worked to hone his writing skills. For a dozen years, he concentrated on writing pseudonymous adult fiction and Gothic romances, selling hundreds of novels and short stories and several thousand articles. He also edited tabloid newspapers and men’s magazines. But all the while, Resnick, a committed science fiction fan, intended to become a science-fiction professional.

"When I was 21, I went to my first Worldcon. There were giants present. Doc Smith bought me a cup of coffee. Jack Williamson encouraged me to try to become a science fiction writer. Isaac Asimov was handing out Hugos to people like Philip K. Dick and Jack Vance. I knew long before the convention was over that I wanted to devote my life to this field" (Jim Baen’s Universe).

In the early eighties, Resnick returned to the science fiction field with The Soul Eater, a reworking of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. His breakthrough novel was the international bestseller Santiago, published by Tor in 1986. Mike has since won five Hugo Awards (for "Kirinyaga," "The Manamouki," "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge," "The 43 Antarean Dynasties," and "Travels With My Cats"), a Nebula Award (for "Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge"), and has been nominated for 35 Hugos (a record for a writer), 11 Nebulas, a British Clarke Award, and many other awards. In 1993 he received the Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction, presented annually by the New England Science Fiction Association. According to Locus Magazine, Mike is the leading award winner, living or dead, in the short fiction category, and fourth all-time when including novels. 

Although his most acclaimed work, the Kirinyaga series, demonstrates Mike’s interest in the continent of Africa, a number of his later novels and stories can be linked to the pulps. Santiago and the Widowmaker series have been called space Westerns or operas, a type of fiction popular in Planet Stories and similar magazines. His recent steampunk novels, The Buntline Special and The Doctor and the Kid, are being marketed as "Weird Westerns" by PYR. But more than any other work, it is his Lucifer Jones stories that are most often linked to the rough paper magazines. The author himself has called the series "a parody of every bad pulp story and every bad ‘B’ movie." Resnick also compiled one of the first pulp guides, The Official Guide to the Fantastics, published by House of Collectibles in 1976.

Mike long ago left behind his desire to do "nothing more than to write books in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs," he appreciates the author’s creations, demonstrated by his introductions to such books as Wildside Press’ The Tarzan Twins and Bison Books’ The Land That Time Forgot and Tarzan Alive (written by Philip José Farmer). With Bob Garcia, Mike is editing The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, an anthology of mostly original stories inspired by Burroughs and his creations. It will be published by Baen Books and feature stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Kij Johnson, Mercedes Lackey, Joe Lansdale, Jack McDevitt, Michael Moorcock, Kristine Katherine Rusch, F. Paul Wilson, and others, plus the first appearance of Resnick’s "The Forgotten Sea of Mars" in 47 years.

Now a science-fiction professional for more than thirty years, the former associate editor of Camille Cazedessus’ ERB-dom remains a science fiction fan and still contributes articles to fanzines and convention program books. You can read many of these essays by visiting Mike Resnick’s blog at http://novelspot.net/blog/137.

Mike will be attending PulpFest 2012 with his wife, Carol, another accomplished writer and science fiction fan. They have been married for over fifty years and live in Cincinnati, Ohio.

References

Cazedessus, Camille. "ERB-dom Index I." ERBzine 0117.

Chicon 7. "Guest of Honor: Mike Resnick." Chicon 7 (2011).

Clute, John & Nicholls, Peter. "Resnick, Michael Diamond." The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. St. Martin’s Press (1993).

Fantastic Fiction: Bibliographies for over 30,000 authors.

Galloway, Stan. "Mike Resnick: From Fan to Frontrunner." Burroughs Bulletin, New Series #30 (1997).

Minz, Jim. "Interview with Mike Resnick." Jim Baen’s Universe (2007).

Mona, Erik. "Redbeard." Paperback Flash: Mona’s Musings on the Pulp Underground (2009).

Resnick, Mike. "Roots and a Few Vines." A Mimosa Fanthology (2002).

Resnick, Mike. "Why I Wrote The Forgotten Sea of Mars." ERBmania! (2000)

Valdron, Den. "Ganymede or Bust: The Forgotten Sea of Mars." ERBzine 1931.

Valdron, Den. "Ganymede or Bust: Mike Resnick’s Ganymede." ERBzine 1932. 

PulpFest 2012 is very pleased to welcome award-winning science-fiction writer Mike Resnick as its guest of honor. Winner of five Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award, Mike first became involved in science fiction through the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. With this year being the hundredth anniversary of the start of Burroughs’ writing career, it is fitting that our guest of honor is an author who, early in his career, "wanted nothing more than to write books in the style of Edgar Rice Burroughs."

Mike’s first published work of science fiction, The Forgotten Sea of Mars, was a sequel to Burroughs’ Llana of Gathol. After its release in 1965, Resnick transformed and expanded the story into The Goddess of Ganymede and its sequel Pursuit on Ganymede. Around the same time, Mike was also an associate editor for Camille Cazedessus’ ERB-dom.

Although Mike turned away from the influence of Edgar Rice Burroughs soon after publishing his first three science-fiction novels, he still appreciates the author’s creations. In recent years, he has written introductions to The Tarzan Twins for Wildside Press and for The Land That Time Forgot and Philip Jose Farmer’s Tarzan Alive, both published by Bison Books. Currently, Mike is editing, with Bob Garcia, The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, an anthology of mostly original stories inspired by Burroughs and his creations. It will be published by Baen Books and will feature stories by Kevin J. Anderson, Joe Lansdale, Michael Moorcock, and others, as well as the first appearance of Resnick’s "The Forgotten Sea of Mars" in nearly fifty years.

For further information about our special guest, please turn to our guest of honor page under "Programming."

The Mars and Tarzan centennials are not the only events that will make 2012 significant for PulpFest attendees: This year we also celebrate the 80th birthday of Conan the Cimmerian, the lusty barbarian who debuted in the December 1932 issue of the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales. Created by Robert E. Howard, Conan became a reader favorite and appeared in many stories over the next four years. 

Although Howard died a suicide in 1936, his most famous creation was later revived in hardcover collections published by Arkham House and Gnome Press. But it was the mid-Sixties Lancer paperbacks, with their striking Frank Frazetta covers, that enthralled baby-boom readers, led to Conan movies and comic books, and gave rise to a new generation of Howard scholars who have worked tirelessly to keep all their favorite author’s works in print. 

PulpFest will celebrate the Cimmerian’s eightieth birthday and honor Howard’s career with two very special programs. First, Rusty Burke will moderate a panel of REH experts who will discuss Conan, Howard’s other characters, and the author’s influence on the sword-and-sorcery genre. Rusty needs no introduction to devotees of “Two-Gun Bob.” He is the editor of the highly acclaimed Howard reprint series published in the US by Del Rey Books, the president of the Robert E. Howard Foundation, and a long-time participant in REHupa (The Robert E. Howard United Press Association). We will provide the names of other panelists as soon as they are confirmed. 

The second Conan-themed presentation will be made by another well-known Howard aficionado, Jim Keegan, who with his wife Ruth produces “The Adventures of Two-Gun Bob,” which appears in every issue of Conan, Kull, and Solomon Kane published by Dark Horse Comics. The Keegans have also illustrated several of the Del Rey volumes (including Crimson Shadows and Grim Land: The Best of Robert E. Howard, Volumes One & Two) and are the proprietors of Jim & Ruth’s Two-Gun Blog. Jim will offer a look at the Cimmerian as depicted by various illustrators over the last eight decades. 

Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard remain two of the most avidly collected pulp fictioneers, and we’re certain that this year’s PulpFest programs will win new fans for each. And that’s just the beginning. We’re already brainstorming ideas for other panels and presentations, so you can expect the same diverse mix of programming for which our convention has become famous. Check back often for additional news!

Some time during the winter of 1912, readers of the Munsey pulp, The All-Story, picked up the February issue of the magazine. It sported a cover featuring a sombreroed Mexican framed in a window. Little did they realize that they were being introduced to an author who would quickly become one of the leading practitioners of American popular fiction.

The All-Story for February 1912 featured a complete novel, ten short stories, and six serials, with "Under the Moons of Mars" listed above them all. The author of this "Romance of a soul astray," was listed as Norman Bean, a pen name for Edgar Rice Burroughs. Hiding behind a pseudonym in his initial effort as a professional writer, Burroughs would soon become one of the best paid authors to labor for the pulp market. Later in 1912, the new author made an indelible mark on American pop culture with the appearance of "Tarzan of the Apes," published complete in the October issue of The All-Story.

2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Under the Moons of Mars," better known by its book title A Princess of Mars and soon to be a major motion picture from Disney. In August, PulpFest will celebrate this momentous occasion by offering a panel entitled Pulp Visions of Mars. Additionally, author and artist David Saunders, who has written extensively on the subject of illustration, will discuss J. Allen St. John, perhaps the artist most associated with the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Other events are still being planned.

PulpFest 2011–Kent Allard

A man whose real name rings far fewer bells than his more famous aliases was scheduled to be PulpFest’s 2011 guest of honor. Born in 1896, Kent Allard entered military service during World War I. It is believed that he served in the United States Army Air Service until he was shot down behind enemy lines. After that, he turned this misfortune of war into a sterling career as an espionage agent, distinguishing himself in many ways that remain top secret. It is rumored he single-handedly liberated one Allied POW camp.

Mr. Allard’s post-war activities remain shrouded in mystery. His 1925 disappearance into the wilds of Guatemala during a mysterious airplane flight baffled searchers for more than a decade. Equally astounding was his celebrated return to civilization in 1937, after twelve years as a “white god” of the legendary Xinca Indians. Mr. Allard faded into obscurity after 1940. Little is known of his shadowy activities after that.

He has been so identified with the late Lamont Cranston that to this day, many people mistakenly believe that Kent Allard was only one of the millionaire sportsman’s alter egos.

Unfortunately, due to his advanced age—Mr. Allard turned 115 in 2011—our guest of honor was not able to attend the 80th anniversary celebration of The Shadow, the cloaked character who dominated radio, pulp magazines and movies for many years. Regardless of his inability to attend PulpFest 2011, Mr. Allard believed that the dynamic programming that took place at the convention was an exceptional tribute to the character with whom he has long been associated.

After the convention, Mr. Allard sent the PulpFest committee a personal message to share with its membership, but almost as soon as the envelope was opened, the blue-ink handwriting faded away before it could be copied down. But those who read the illusive words recall that the man who was long rumored to be The Shadow thanked the convention for a job well done.

Although Kent Allard was unable to attend PulpFest 2011, there were several rumored sightings of a mysterious shadowy figure at the convention. None could actually be confirmed.

PulpFest 2010–William F. Nolan

Since 2010 marked both the 90th birthday of Black Mask magazine and the 90th anniversary of Frederick Faust’s first appearance in Western Story Magazine, award-winning author, editor, biographer, screenwriter, and poet William F. Nolan was the ideal guest of honor for PulpFest 2010.

Among his many accomplishments, Mr. Nolan is a leading authority on pulp fictioneers Max Brand (a pseudonym for Frederick Faust) and Dashiell Hammett as well as the other Black Mask contributors who flourished under the regime of editor Joseph T. Shaw. His numerous books on these writers include Hammett: A Life at the Edge (1983), The Black Mask Boys (1985), the key work on this legendary pulp magazine, and Max Brand: Western Giant (1986).

William F. Nolan was born in 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as an artist for Hallmark Cards before moving to California in the late 40s. Soon he began concentrating on writing rather than art. Not long after his first genre fiction, "The Joy of Living," was published in the August 1954 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction, Nolan became a full-time writer. It was during this period that Nolan, along with Charles Beaumont, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Chad Oliver, and John Tomerlin, formed the nucleus of the group known as "The Southern California School of Writers," working together to develop their skills. According to a recent interview, everything William F. Nolan has written since his second short story has been published–more than 1500 stories, articles, books, and other works.

Nolan is best known as the co-author (with George Clayton Johnson) of Logan’s Run and sole author of its sequels. The original novel sold over a million copies in the United States alone, spawned a popular MGM movie, a CBS television series, a Marvel comic book, and dozens of websites. Bluewater Productions recently launched a new graphic version of Nolan’s creation entitled Logan’s Run: Last Day and a mega-budget film version of the novel is in development.

With 85 books to his credit, plus hundreds of articles, scripts and short stories embracing a dozen genres, Nolan is a regular word factory. He has written countless works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, particularly in the short story form. The best of his dark fantasy was collected in 2001 under the title William F. Nolan’s Dark Universe: Stories 1951 - 2001, while a representative sampling of his science fiction appeared in 2005: Wild Galaxy: Selected Science Fiction Stories. He is a two-time winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Edgar Award, was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2006, acclaimed a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild, and recently received the Lifetime Achievement Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association. Additionally, his work for television has garnered two Golden Medallions in Europe.

In the pulp field, Nolan has not only authored works on Hammett, Faust, and Black Mask, but has also written about his friends Ray Bradbury and Charles Beaumont. Additionally, he has edited six collections featuring the work of Frederick Faust. He has also penned a trio of mystery novels featuring Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner as detectives. The first of these, The Black Mask Murders, appeared in 1994. His Sam Space series, a joking homage to Hammett, transported the hero of The Maltese Falcon to outer space. Although Nolan began his "fiction career too late for the pulps," he "did have letters printed in Planet Stories and Famous Fantastic Mysteries" and "grew up reading Argosy and Weird Tales."

Nolan’s most recent work is The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers, an anthology of dark short fiction and film scripts, co-edited with Jason V. Brock. Published as a limited edition by Cycatrix Press, it features works by Nolan, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Frank Robinson, George Clayton Johnson, the late Dan O’Bannon, Joe R. Lansdale, and others. Additionally, Nolan penned a short piece that is included in The Pulpster #19, this year’s PulpFest program book.

At PulpFest 2010, Nolan headlined panels on Western and hard-boiled detective fiction and discussed his long writing career. He was available for autographs and conversation for all of Saturday afternoon. A resident of Vancouver, Washington, Nolan is currently at work on ten new books including a biography of Frederick Faust. He lives in an apartment filled with books, pulps, and stuffed animals.

PulpFest 2009–Otto Penzler

Otto Penzler, whose 2008 anthology The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps did more to renew interest in pulp fiction than any mainstream publication in recent history, was  a perfect  fit for the first PulpFest. Born in 1942, Otto regaled conventioneers with stories of his adventures in the publishing business and as a lifelong collector. He also gave attendees a preview of his much anticipated Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories, an anthology collecting rare yarns from the prestigious pulp magazine that was home to Hammett, Chandler, and other giants of hard-boiled detective fiction. It will be released in 2010 and be followed by a collection of adventure fiction.

Mr. Penzler first endeared himself to pulp-fiction fans in the late 1970s by publishing a two-volume collection of stories featuring Norgil, a magician-detective created by Walter Gibson, who also wrote The Shadow novels. In the years succeeding, Penzler released  a variety of pulp fiction collections as well as a biography of pulp scribe Cornell Woolrich.

In addition to his myriad accomplishments in publishing and editing, Mr. Penzler is the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop, a New York City landmark that celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2008. The winner of numerous awards, he is also a world-class collector of crime fiction, many of whose most notable authors toiled in the pulp vineyards before achieving mainstream success with major publishers.

There is currently one auction scheduled for PulpFest 2012. It will be held on Saturday night, August 11th. Any member of the convention can submit items for inclusion in this auction. Your PulpFest badge number will be used when buying and/or selling during the auction.

Pulp magazines and related materials, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, original art, first edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels and story papers, Big Little Books, B-Movies, serials and related paper collectibles, old time radio shows and books about them and Golden and Silver Age comic books as well as newspaper adventure strips will be allowed in the auction. Modern graphic novels and comic books featuring pulp heroes will also be allowed. All lots submitted must have a minimum value of $10. If a lot does not receive a bid of $10, it will be passed.

Sexually explicit magazines such as Playboy, Penthouse and Oui will not be allowed. 

PulpFest makes no guarantees concerning materials submitted to the Saturday Night Auction. If you plan to bid on an item, please examine it before bidding. Time will be provided for an examination of all lots prior to the start of the auction. The convention charges sellers 10% of the selling price for anything sold in the auction. If a reserve price is placed on an auction lot and it fails to sell, PulpFest charges 10% of the reserve. Due to time constraints, limitations may be placed on the number of lots a seller can include in the auction. All auction lots must be submitted to PulpFest prior to 3 PM, Saturday, August 11th. If you’d like to submit a large number of pieces to the auction, please contact Barry Traylor prior to the start of the convention.

Estate Auctions

PulpFest welcomes estate auctions for the simple reason that we would like to see collections stay within the pulp community, helping us to remember the people to whom such collections once belonged. Many of us do not like the idea of making out a will, but it is a good idea to do so in order to make sure that the collections that have meant so much to us find a good home. It is also wise to give your loved ones instructions as to whom to contact for the dispersion of one’s collection. If you’d like to submit an estate for auction at PulpFest, please write to Barry Traylor. 

For questions about the auction or about estate auctions, please write to J. Barry Traylor at 1767 Crooked Oak Drive, Lancaster, PA 17601 or via email at barry@pulpfest.com.

PulpFest is proud of the variety of panels and presentations it offers to entertain our attendees. All scheduled activities will take place in the Fairfield Room located on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency Columbus. Below is our preliminary schedule for 2012. Please note that everything listed is tentative at this time. Suggestions are welcome.

Thursday, August 9

4:00 PM - 11:00 PM - Dealer Set-Up - the dealers’ room will be open only to dealers to assemble their displays.

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Early Registration - general members and dealers will be able to register for PulpFest.

Evening Programming

8:00 PM - The French Connection - Rick Lai will discuss "How French Literature May Have Influenced American Pulp Heroes" in a presentation featuring The Count of Monte Cristo, Arsene Lupin, Fantomas, Doc Savage, The Shadow, Zorro, and more.

9:00 PM - At the Newsstand with Hulse and Roberts - Professor Garyn G. Roberts and Blood ‘n’ Thunder editor Ed Hulse salute the 75th anniversary of John W. Campbell’s arrival at Astounding Stories and the beginning of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.

10:00 PM - to be announced.

11:00 PM - to be announced.

Friday, August 10

9:00 AM - 5 PM - Wheeling and Dealing - the dealers’ room will be open to all.

1:00 PM - The New Fictioneers - Christopher Paul Carey will read from his novel co-authored with Philip José Farmer, The Song of Kwasin, part of the Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa omnibus, forthcoming from Subterranean Press.

2:00 PM - The New Fictioneers - William Patrick Maynard will read from his new, fully authorized novel, The Destiny of Fu Manchu, a continuation of the classic adventure series created by Sax Rohmer..

3:00 PM - The New Fictioneers - Tommy Hancock of Pro Se Press will be appearing.

Evening Programming

7:00 PM - Welcome to PulpFest - Jack Cullers offers an official welcome.

7:10 PM - Lord Tyger, Time’s Last Gift, and the Gods of Opar - our FarmerCon VII panelists discuss a sampling of the Burroughsian works of Philip José Farmer and their relation to the Wold Newton Universe. Moderated by Mike Croteau of Meteor Press. Panelists will include Win Scott Eckert and Christopher Paul Carey, with others to be announced.

8:10 PM - Guest of Honor Presentation - featuring award-winning science-fiction author and Burroughs authority Mike Resnick.

9:10 PM - Barsoom and Beyond: Visions of Mars in the Pulps - panel presentation on various depictions of the Red Planet as presented in the pulps. Panelists will include Henry G. Franke, III, editor of The Burroughs Bulletin; Stephen Haffner of Haffner Press; Garyn G. Roberts, editor of The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy; with others to be announced. Moderated by PulpFest’s Ed Hulse.

10:10 PM - Wild American Pulp Artist: J. Allen St. John - David Saunders examines the life and work of  J. Allen St. John, the artist most associated with the work of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

11:10 PM - I, Tarzan - set in an English castle, this documentary features George McWhorter. editor emeritus of The Burroughs Bulletin, Philip José Farmer, Grand Master of Science Fiction, and popular culture expert Francis Lacassin in a discussion about Edgar Rice Burroughs’ most famous creation, Tarzan.

Saturday, August 11

9:00 AM - 5 PM - Wheeling and Dealing - the dealers’ room will be open to all.

1:00 PM - The New Pulp Fiction - Ron Fortier of Airship 27 moderates a panel featuring contemporary authors inspired by the pulp fiction of yore. Jim Beard, Mark Halegua, Tommy Hancock, Rick Lai, William Patrick Maynard, and Frank Schildiner will join Ron for a discussion of New Pulp fiction.

2:30 PM - The New Fictioneers - one of the founding members of the New Pulp movement, Win Scott Eckert, will read from a selection of his works.

3:30 PM - A Tribute to Howard Hopkins and David Burton - New Pulp author Win Scott Eckert and Wild Cat Books publisher Ron Hanna will lead a celebration of the lives and works of these two creative pulp fans, recently departed.

Evening Programming

7:00 PM - PulpFest 2012 Business Meeting - all members are invited to ask questions and offer suggestions at this session.

7:20 PM - 2012 Rusty Award Presentation - who will be the winner of this annual award for service to the pulp community? The award will be presented by Anthony Tollin, the winner of last year’s Munsey. A brief tribute to Rusty Hevelin, the guiding light of Pulpcon, will also take place at this time.

7:45 PM - The Illustrated Conan - artist Jim Keegan offers a look at Conan of Cimmeria as depicted by various illustrators over the last eight decades.

8:40 PM - Robert E. Howard’s Conan and the Birth of Sword and Sorcery - Rusty Burke, president of the Robert E. Howard Foundation moderates this panel about Conan of Cimmeria and the author who created the sword-and-sorcery genre. Panelists to be announced.

9:40 PM - Saturday Night at the Auction - "Going, going, gone." Bring your PulpFest badge and your checkbook and get ready to snatch up some of the gems and bargains typically offered.

Sunday, August 12

Daytime Schedule

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Rusty Award Breakfast - an informal meal in the hotel’s restaurant to celebrate this year’s Rusty Award winner and your PulpFest experience.

10:00 AM - 2 PM - Wheeling and Dealing - the dealers’ room will be open to all.

For questions and/or suggestions about our programming, please write to Ed Hulse at ed@pulpfest.com.