Dieselpunk Epulp Showcase

John Picha

Feb 2013 · John Picha

About this eBook

This action-packed ePulp Anthology unleashes four new noir tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s. Blazing brawls and gritty adventure awaits dieselpunks, nostalgians, die hard or pulp-curious fans. Hope you can take a punch, because these two-fisted tales hit hard! For young hoods, the Aether Age streets of mob-plagued Chicago present a world of opportunity. And Mack and Mickey are headed straight for the top in "That Sort of World: a Tale of the Aether Age." It's class-warfare in Citadel City as Pandora Driver and her Car of Tomorrow deliver rough justice to the elites and a douche named the Gooch in "Who are the People in your Neighborhood?" "The Wise Man Says" introduces Mick Trubble: a hard drinking, chain smoking charmer who bites off more than he can chew... then chews like hell. The Troubleshooter takes the grit and slang of a hardboiled detective and drops it in a dystopian setting that mixes Fedoras, trench coats, flying cars and android policemen. The dirty streets of Roanoketown were his home and his only family. Until he met HER. Now he'll follow HER into hell, tamahaak held high, and fight as a proud Indian against the Anglo Oppressors. He'll wager his life to be a true "A Friend of Spirits." Download if you dare!

Ratings and reviews

John Picha gives another home run (as usual) with this instalment of Pandora Driver. Bard Constantine writes a wonderfully vivid and intriguing tale, I'll definitely keep an eye for more of his work. Grant Gardiner also did an excellent job of putting you right there.

I fully expected the introductions to the genre to hold a more gonzo attitude, but the more subtle approach was the perfect touch. Fans of pulp fiction, hard boiled gumshoes and film noir certainly wouldn't feel uncomfortable in the alternate world that the stories are based. A very nice surprise indeed.

This book is the culmination of my wildest dreams in terms of greatness. If you like the Maltese Falcon or the movie Casablanca you will absolutely adore this wonderfully written series of short stories

About the author

John Picha was born on St. Patrick's Day 1968 in Joliet, Illinois. He was raised in Frankfort, a suburb of Chicago, but his mind always seemed to be elsewhere. The little Midwesterner was captivated by comic books, cartoons and animation, mythology and all things imagined. He made the world around him more exciting by pretending. A bicycle was a spacecraft, a bush became a dinosaur, and, of course, there was always a bath towel hidden away for a quick change into a super hero.