Of ancient pulp fiction in new dressings and female memoirs

[selenak]

The Book Fair is always among many other things always a great opportunity to chat with people from the industry you rarely see. Yesterday I caught up with two of my favourite publishers of iconic German pulp fiction, Bernhard Schmidt who publishes Karl May and Klaus Frick who publishes Perry Rhodan, aka our attempt to compete with Doctor Who for

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[trobadora]

Apparently this is greeted somewhat like the ST and BSG reboots were, with part of the fandom crying "heresy!" and a part being intrigued. As someone fond of the multiverse and pallel universes, I'm all for it as long as the original timeline still exists as well.

There also appears to be a not insignificant number of people who are all, "Does not compute! Two different versions of the same character? Being written at the same time? By the same people? *BRAINEXPLODE*" - which I find utterly hilarious. *g*

[zahrawithaz]

Reading your posts makes me miss the book world! I never went anywhere as exciting as Frankfurt, but still!