Vintage Pop Fictions

pulp novels, trash fiction, detective stories, adventure tales, spy fiction, etc from the 19th century up to the 1970s

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Michael Crichton’s Sphere

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Michael Crichton’s novel Sphere was published in 1987. The novel was successful and was well received by critics. The 1988 film adaptation ...
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Irwin R. Blacker’s The Kilroy Gambit

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There’s nothing more exciting when you’re a vintage pop fiction fan than discovering a totally unknown book by a writer you’ve never heard o...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Peter O’Donnell's Modesty Blaise: Mister Sun

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This volume contains three Modesty Blaise comic-strip adventures written by Peter O’Donnell with artwork by Jim Holdaway. Comic strips publ...
Friday, June 12, 2026

William Vance’s Bait

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Bait is a sleaze novel with a hint of noir by William Vance (writing as George Cassidy) published in 1962. Melody Frane is an itinerant far...
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Sunday, June 7, 2026

Murray Leinster’s The Mutant Weapon

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The Mutant Weapon is a science fiction novella (or maybe at a stretch a short novel) by Murray Leinster (1896-1975). Leinster was a prolifi...
Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Kingsley Amis's Girl, 20

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Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) was at one time a very big deal indeed in the literary world. He now seems to have fallen very much out of fashion...
Friday, May 29, 2026

Michael Crichton's Zero Cool

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Zero Cool is one of the early thrillers written by Michael Crichton under the name John Lange. It was published in 1969, the same year in w...
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