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Luttwak and cultural imperialism.
Edward Luttwak is not someone I take particularly seriously, since in his role as "public intellectual" he takes the former much more seriously than the latter. (See: his embarrassing (to himself) claim that Obama would be considered an apostate by other Muslims).
However, in his Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire from the First Century AD to ( Read more... ) -
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My second io9 column, this one covering the pulps from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s, is up now. -
Halfway through the Research Marathon.
You'll have noticed that I stopped doing the pulp market share posts.
The reason for this is that I discovered that my master list of pulps I was using for the market share data was...embarrassingly...incomplete. I say "embarrassingly" because I took it almost entirely from my Pulp Magazine Holdings Directory, which I'd thought was exhaustive ( Read more... ) -
Pulp Market Share, 1928.
Title data: 100 titles.
- Adventure: 10 titles, 10%.
- Aviation: 9 titles, 9%.
- Boxing: 1 titles, 1%.
- Detective: 8 titles, 8%.
- Fantastica: 3 titles, 3%.
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Pulp market share, 1927.
Title data: 67 titles.
- Adventure: 8 titles, 11.9%.
- Aviation: 1 title, 1.5%.
- Detective: 7 titles, 10.45%.
- Fantastica: 4 titles, 6%.
- General: 14 titles, 21%.
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Pulp market share, 1926.
Title data: 56 titles.
- Adventure: 7 titles, 12.5%.
- Detective: 6 titles, 10.7%
- Fantastica: 2 titles, 3.6%.
- General: 14 titles, 25%.
- Humor: 1 title, 1.8%.
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Pulp market share, 1925.
Title data: 53 titles.
- Adventure: 8 titles, 15.1%.
- Detective: 4 titles, 7.55%.
- Fantastica: 1 title, 1.9%.
- General: 19 titles, 35.8%.
- Humor: 2 titles, 3.8%.
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Pulp Market Share, 1924.
Title data: 40 titles.
- Adventure: 6 titles, 15%.
- Detective: 5 titles, 12.5%.
- Fantastica: 1 title, 2.5%.
- General: 14 titles, 35%.
- Humor: 1 title, 2.5%.
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Pulp Market Share, 1923.
Had a quiet space here at the reference desk, so put together another year's worth of numbers.
Title data: 31 issues.- Adventure: 5 titles, 16.1%.
- Detective: 4 titles, 12.9%.
- Fantastica: 1 title, 3.2%.
- General: 10 titles, 32.3%.
- Miscellaneous: 1 title, 3.2%.
