#popularfiction — Public Fediverse posts

*Owen Wister, a rootin'-tootin' cowboy writer and father of the "Western" genre. His grandma was the British actress Fanny Kemble; he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard; he wrote six operas in Paris, etc #Americans #genre #popularfiction #authors

“Your body is your own. Your life is your life. Doubt anyone who would tell you—or anybody else—otherwise.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/11/12/your-body-is-your-own-your-life-is-your-life-doubt-anyone-who-would-tell-you-or-anybody-else-otherwise/

#amitieFeminineRomansNouvellesEtc #anybodyElse #bildungsromans #book #dakotaDuSudRomansNouvellesEtc #divorcedWomenFiction #doubtAnyone #emilyStJames #femaleFriendshipFiction #femmesDivorceesRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #fictionLiterary #fictionWomen #fictionComingOfAge #fictionFriendship #fictionLgbtqTransgender #friendshipFiction #jeunesTransgenresDakotaDuSudRomansNouvellesEtc #lgbtqFiction #lgbtqiaFiction #life #literaryFiction #literaryFictionLgbtq #novels #otherwise #popularFiction #pressionSocialeRomansNouvellesEtc #quote #romans #socialPressureFiction #southDakotaFiction #teachersFiction #theatersFiction #transfemininePeople #transgenderCharacters #transgenderDaughters #transgenderFiction #transgenderRelationships #transgenderWomenSouthDakotaFiction #transgenderYouth #transgenderYouthSouthDakotaFiction #transgenresFemininsDakotaDuSudRomansNouvellesEtc #womenTeachersSouthDakotaFiction #wouldTellYou #yourBody #yourLife #yourOwn

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Oriental Stories ✧

Oriental Stories was an American pulp magazine published by Popular Fiction and edited by Farnsworth Wright. It was launched in 1930 as a companion to Popular Fiction's Weird Tales, and carried stories with Far Eastern settings, including some fantasy. Contributors included Robert E. Howard, Frank Owen, and E. Hoffmann Price. ...

#PopularFiction #MagicCarpetMagazine #OrientalStories #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Stories

The Gods of H P Lovecraft

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/10/03/the-gods-of-h-p-lovecraft/

#AaronJFrench #AdamNevill #AmericanLiterature #Azathoth #BentleyLittle #book #BrettTalley #ChristopherGolden #Cthulhu #DavidLiss #DonaldTyson #DouglasWynne #ElderThings #FantasyFiction #GreatRace #hPLovecraft #HPLovecraft18901937 #HPLovecraft18901937Influence #horror #HorrorCollectionsAnthologies #HorrorFiction #horrorStories #HorrorTales #InfluenceLiteraryArtisticEtc_ #JamesAMoore #JoeRLansdale #JonathanMaberry #LairdBarron #LiteraryCollections #MarthaWells #MiGo #monsters #MonstersLiteraryCollections #MonstresAnthologies #NightGaunts #Nyarlathotep #PopularFiction #RachelCaine #review #SeananMcGuire #shortStories #ShortStoriesAnthologies #ShubNiggurath #TPolyphilus #TheDeepOnes #Tsathoggua #Yig #YogSothoth

“Stories such as these were dismissed—unless legend took seed and sprouted religion.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/09/09/stories-such-as-these-were-dismissed-unless-legend-took-seed-and-sprouted-religion/

#ApocalypticDystopian #book #dismissed #dystopianFiction #Dystopias #EpicFiction #fiction #FictionDystopian #FictionScienceFictionActionAdventure #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #FICTIONScienceFictionApocalypticPostApocalyptic #HughHowey #IntraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #legend #PopularFiction #postApocalypticScienceFiction #quote #religion #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionAdventures #sprouted #stories #SubterraneanCivilization #SubterraneanCivilizationFiction #suchAsThese #SurvivalFiction #TheSiloSaga #tookSeed #unless

The Hellfire Club

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/08/22/the-hellfire-club/

#book #Connecticut #ConnecticutFiction #ConnecticutRomansNouvellesEtc #DetectiveAndMysteryFiction #DetectiveAndMysteryStories #EnleVementDroitPeNalRomansNouvellesEtc #FemmesCrimesContreRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #gothicHorror #horror #Kidnapping #KidnappingFiction #MeurtresEnSeRieRomansNouvellesEtc #mystery #PopularFiction #PsychologicalFiction #PsychologicalThrillers #PublishersAndPublishing #PublishersAndPublishingFiction #review #SerialMurders #SerialMurdersFiction #SuspenseThriller #SuspenseThrillers #TPolyphilus #ThrillersCrime #WomenCrimesAgainst #WomenCrimesAgainstFiction

The Martian Chronicles

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/07/04/the-martian-chronicles/

#AmericanScienceFiction #book #ClassicLiteratureFiction #Classics #fiction #FictionHorrorGeneral #FictionHumorousDarkHumor #FictionLiterary #FictionScienceFictionAlienContact #FictionScienceFictionCollectionsAnthologies #FictionThrillersSupernatural #FictionThrillersSuspense #FictionThrillersPsychological #FICTIONScienceFictionApocalypticPostApocalyptic #FictionClassics #FictionOccultSupernatural #FictionPsychological #FictionSatire #FictionScienceFictionSpaceOpera #horror #HumorEntertainment #InterplanetaryVoyages #InterplanetaryVoyagesFiction #literaryFiction #MarsPlanet_ #MarsPlanetFiction #MarsPlaneTeRomansNouvellesEtc #mystery #Novels #PopularFiction #RayBradbury #review #romans #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionShortStories #TPolyphilus #ThrillersCrime #VoyagesInterplaneTairesRomansNouvellesEtc

“He lost himself in what the untold years had done, the ablation of molecules and lives, layers and layers ground to fine dust.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/05/13/he-lost-himself-in-what-the-untold-years-had-done-the-ablation-of-molecules-and-lives-layers-and-layers-ground-to-fine-dust/

#ablation #ApocalypticDystopian #book #civilization #done #dystopianFiction #fiction #fineDust #ground #HughHowey #IntraterrestresRomansNouvellesEtc #layers #lives #lostHimself #molecules #mystery #PopularFiction #postApocalypticScienceFiction #quote #revolutions #RevolutionsFiction #ReVolutionsRomansNouvellesEtc #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionAdventures #Sheriffs #SheriffsFiction #ShérifsRomansNouvellesEtc #Silo #subterranean #SubterraneanFiction #ThrillersCrime #UndergroundAreas #UndergroundAreasFiction #untoldYears #ZonesSouterrainesRomansNouvellesEtc

The Dispossessed

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/05/05/the-dispossessed-2/

#AnarchismFiction #AnarchismeRomansNouvellesEtc #book #ClassicLiteratureFiction #CommunalLivingFiction #CommunesContreCultureRomansNouvellesEtc #dystopianFiction #etc #fantasy #fiction #FictionDystopian #FictionFantasyGeneral #FictionFantasyContemporary #FictionFeminist #FictionLiterary #FictionNatureTheEnvironment #FictionPolitical #FictionScienceFictionSpaceExploration #FictionTimeTravel #FictionVisionaryMetaphysical #FictionWomen #FictionClassics #FictionScienceFictionSpaceOpera #KarenJoyFowler #LifeOnOtherPlanetsFiction #literaryFiction #MuhammadFatchurofi #mystery #nouvelles #Novels #PhysiciensRomansNouvellesEtc #PhysicistsFiction #PopularFiction #review #romans #ScienceFiction #TPolyphilus #ThrillersCrime #UrsulaKLeGuin #VieExtraterrestreRomans

“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will have to deal with them, too. Keep in mind, though, that we need control only three per cent of the energy surface—only three per cent—to tip the entire structure over into our self-sustaining system.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/25/our-timetable-will-achieve-the-stature-of-a-natural-phenomenon-his-father-said-a-planets-life-is-a-vast-tightly-interwoven-fabric-vegetation-and-animal-changes/

#achieve #animal #atFirst #book #changes #control #controllingInfluences #dealWithThem #determined #Dune #DuneImaginaryPlace_ #DuneImaginaryPlaceFiction #DuneLieuImaginaireRomansNouvellesEtc #DuneChronicles #energySurface #entireStructure #EpicFantasy #establishThemselves #fabric #fantasy #father #fiction #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #frankHerbert #GuerresEtBataillesImaginairesRomansNouvellesEtc #ImaginaryWarsAndBattles #ImaginaryWarsAndBattlesFiction #inTheirOwnRight #keepInMind #LifeOnOtherPlanets #LifeOnOtherPlanetsFiction #manipulate #naturalPhenomenon #need #onlyThreePerCent #ourChanges #physicalForces #planetSLife #PopularFiction #quote #raw #ScienceFiction #selfSustainingSystem #spaceOpera #SpaceOperas #stature #threePerCent #tightlyInterwoven #timetable #tip #vast #vegetation #VieExtraterrestreRomansNouvellesEtc

“Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon,” his father said. “A planet’s life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling influences in their own right—and we will have to deal with them, too. Keep in mind, though, that we need control only three per cent of the energy surface—only three per cent—to tip the entire structure over into our self-sustaining system.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/25/our-timetable-will-achieve-the-stature-of-a-natural-phenomenon-his-father-said-a-planets-life-is-a-vast-tightly-interwoven-fabric-vegetation-and-animal-changes/

#achieve #animal #atFirst #book #changes #control #controllingInfluences #dealWithThem #determined #Dune #DuneImaginaryPlace_ #DuneImaginaryPlaceFiction #DuneLieuImaginaireRomansNouvellesEtc #DuneChronicles #energySurface #entireStructure #EpicFantasy #establishThemselves #fabric #fantasy #father #fiction #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #frankHerbert #GuerresEtBataillesImaginairesRomansNouvellesEtc #ImaginaryWarsAndBattles #ImaginaryWarsAndBattlesFiction #inTheirOwnRight #keepInMind #LifeOnOtherPlanets #LifeOnOtherPlanetsFiction #manipulate #naturalPhenomenon #need #onlyThreePerCent #ourChanges #physicalForces #planetSLife #PopularFiction #quote #raw #ScienceFiction #selfSustainingSystem #spaceOpera #SpaceOperas #stature #threePerCent #tightlyInterwoven #timetable #tip #vast #vegetation #VieExtraterrestreRomansNouvellesEtc

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/24/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress/

#artificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligenceFiction #book #ClassicLiteratureFiction #ColoniesPeNitentiairesRomansNouvellesEtc #fiction #FictionScienceFictionActionAdventure #GuerresEtBataillesImaginairesRomansNouvellesEtc #ImaginaryWarsAndBattles #ImaginaryWarsAndBattlesFiction #IntelligenceArtificielleRomansNouvellesEtc #LuneRomansNouvellesEtc #moon #MoonFiction #PenalColonies #PenalColoniesFiction #PopularFiction #review #revolutions #RevolutionsFiction #ReVolutionsRomansNouvellesEtc #robertAHeinlein #ScienceFiction #ScienceFictionAdventures #ScienceFictionShortStories #TPolyphilus

Herald of Ruin

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/03/herald-of-ruin/

#arkhamHorror #book #BookstoresFiction #DetectiveAndMysteryFiction #fantasy #FantasyFiction #FantasyTVMovieGameTieIn #fiction #horror #HorrorFiction #JohnCoulthart #LibrairiesRomansNouvellesEtc #MagicFiction #MonstersFiction #MonstresRomansNouvellesEtc #OccultHorror #OccultistesRomansNouvellesEtc #OccultistsFiction #PopularFiction #review #TPolyphilus #TimPratt #TVMovieGameTieInFiction

“Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come,” Tuek said. “Speed is a device of Shaitan.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/11/move-slowly-and-the-day-of-your-revenge-will-come-tuek-said-speed-is-a-device-of-shaitan/

#book #day #device #Dune #DuneImaginaryPlace_ #DuneImaginaryPlaceFiction #DuneLieuImaginaireRomansNouvellesEtc #DuneChronicles #EpicFantasy #fantasy #fiction #FictionScienceFictionGeneral #frankHerbert #GuerresEtBataillesImaginairesRomansNouvellesEtc #ImaginaryWarsAndBattles #ImaginaryWarsAndBattlesFiction #LifeOnOtherPlanets #LifeOnOtherPlanetsFiction #move #PopularFiction #quote #revenge #said #ScienceFiction #Shaitan #slowly #spaceOpera #SpaceOperas #speed #VieExtraterrestreRomansNouvellesEtc #willCome

Justine

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/07/justine/

#ArtsHumanities #book #ClassicLiteratureFiction #Classics #EroticFiction #EuropeanLiteraryHistoryCriticism #fiction #GenreLiteratureFiction #JohnPhillips #LiteraryStudiesEuropean #literature #marquisDeSade #marquisDeSade17401814 #marquisDeSade17401814TranslationsIntoEnglish #OxfordWorldSClassics #PopularFiction #review #TPolyphilus #translations

Ketzan and Eve introduce the term "anxiety of prestige" to explore how "popular" fiction authors, like Stephen King, address literary prestige. Using King as a case study, they analyze his stylistic choices to reveal latent anxieties about "low" vs. "high" literature.
https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.3915 #LiteraryStudies #CLS #StephenKing #PopularFiction #Prestige #Fiction #CCLS24 #DigitalHumanities @mpe

One thing I want to see more in #PopularFiction are very strong male sidekicks to even stronger female lead characters.

We reached the point where we have a lot of shows/series with male heroes and strong female sidekicks and also a bunch of shows with strong female heroes but these are often paired with male goofballs (or straight doofuses). I guess that is progress compared to most of the last few centuries but it is only a limited blessing for #feminism. It lowkey tells women they are only thriving in the absence of a truly strong male character and men that they can either be perceived as the dominant character or as flimsy and weak with little in between. Not to mention that way too many shows/series with female leads are seen as being 'for girls specifically'.

Of course there are also some decent positive examples and I will try to boost these whenever I notice. Recommendations are always welcome.

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RT @ShashiTharoor
Check out #PopularFiction in India these days!
https://twitter.com/ShashiTharoor/status/1527557252940726272