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ROMANCE_OF_THE_REAL

                                           February 9, 2005

Pulp fiction:
Entertainment.
Escape.

  Right?


The Black Mask editor,
Joseph Shaw was quite
pleased when one of his       John Carol Daly,
writers was busted for        who went out and
carrying a concealed          bought a 45 because
weapon.                       he wrote about a
                              character that
                              carried two.



Part of Hammett's legend,
was that he worked as a         If you read about
Pinkerton detective before      Hammett's life,
becoming a writer.              though, his adventures
                                seem rather mild
                                compared to the Op.

                                                            BONDED_TIGHTLY

During World War II,
Campbell (editor at
Astounding/Analog) was
overjoyed at a visit from
the FBI, asking him to           Legend has it that he
stop talking about atomic        responded something like
weapons.                         "Ah ha, something's up
                                 at Los Almamos, eh?"

                                    Campbell liked to keep a
                                    map with pins in it               A war
                                    flagging the location of          gamer's
                                    each of his subscribers.          notion?

                                       He could see a sudden
                                       flow of techie geeks to
                                       one spot in New Mexico.


    Maybe it *was*
    all just trash.                                  ("Campbell's Flags":
                                                      now there's a title
       But they wanted it                             for you.)
       to be something else.









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