Planet Stories Resurrects the Pulps

Planet Stories, produced by Paizo Publishing, offers reprints of mostly classic pulp era science fiction and fantasy adventure stories from Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Leigh Brackett, Henry Kuttner, and Otis Adelbert Kline. Michael Moorcock (his three part Kane of Old Mars series), three books by Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Gary Gygax, and an anthology of stories by "today's best (and best-selling) fantasists [who] got their start writing shared-world fiction supporting roleplaying games" represent the modern era contingent of the line's first fourteen publications. The volumes include introductions by Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Moorcock, Suzy McKee Charnas, C. J. Cherryh, Samuel Delaney, Ben Bova, Roy Thomas, Ed Greenwood, Erik Moha, and Kim Mohan.

Six of the titles are currently available with the remaining nine being released roughly one a month throughout '08.






As much as I love this idea, I have to wonder how well they are selling or are expected to sell. The books are handsomely packaged and affordable, which will certainly stack the deck more in their favor. I certainly hope they do well. There is a lot of quality pulp stuff that has seemingly been surrendered to obscurity.