I’m going to try something a little different tonite.
Below you’ll see the cover art from two pulp magazines – in this particular case Rocket Stories from July 1953 and Saturn Science Fiction from October 1957.
Give me a title for the story that combines both images and (up to) a hundred word plot synopsis for that story. Enter your submissions as a comment. More than one entry per person is acceptable.
I’ll announce the end of this little contest if and when it receives sufficient entries. The winner will receive one of the A. Bertram Chandler Commodore Grimes omnibus editions from the SFBC.
Feel free to use any of the elements portrayed on those covers – and feel free to put them in any order.
Once this one finishes, I’ll select another two (or three) pulp covers and offer another opportunity to win something else.
If you are a winner or a runner-up (I’ll pick up to three in that category) and are feeling sufficiently masochistic – write the short story you synopsized and I’ll run it here.
[…] be doing some guesting over at SFSignal, so I hope he keeps on reading. In particular, I hope he notices the Pulp Mashup […]
SPACE BLINDNESS!
Read about a crew of four space explorers who land on the planet Giganta. Disembarking from their ship, the crew climbs into their four wheel space-ATV to explore the barren surface of the newly discovered planet. Find out how the four suddenly contract space blindness and fail to see a 30-foot, long-legged, hot pants-clad babe playing hopscotch with a group of Gumby clones!
lol John.
Spread the word or you’ll end up winning by default…
Eris : Mutant Freedom Fighter of New Earth
Thousands of years after The Great Nuclear War, it’s mutants, monsters, and mayhem in the desolate landscapes that now dominate the Earth. Follow Eris, a normal human in most respects, except for her height and sex appeal! Read as she fights for the freedom of all the mutants versus the nefarious forces. From the walking plant creatures of Old New York to the capricious Space Men, remnants of the old space program, who seek to recreate the Earth in their image. An Earth without any mutants!
Thank you Chill.
Now we’ve got a competition going on!
Gynophobic Dreams
Walter Smith is a seemingly normal green mutant advertising executive, but he has a secret – in his dreams he has an irrational fear of being chased by giant women! Then, one day, a rocket lands and disgorges an erratically driven red car filled with Giant Women – just like in his nightmares! Will his other castration anxiety dreams come true as well?
(What the hell is that costume anyway? Ankle protectors?)
Thank’s Kochk.
Three entries. That’s cooking with gas!
My own entry (I’m not qualified to enter) would be something like:
Custer 3000 AD
The colonists hadn’t paid too much attention to the Indyuns, regarding them as a primitive, backward race. Perhaps that is why they never noticed the resentment boiling just below the surface.
Commander Custer of the 7th Space Cavalry Regiment didn’t think much of the natives either. Maybe that’s why he only brought a squad, when he should have been bringing the entire army!