Comments on: The Bloodstained Man: Netherworld Book 2 http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/the-bloodstained-man/ reading material to get excited about Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: PastePotPete http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-fi/the-bloodstained-man/comment-page-1/#comment-78583 PastePotPete Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:31:03 +0000 http://www.bookgasm.com/?p=14430#comment-78583 I was excited at the idea of this new book line(Heavy Metal Pulp) but I was done after the first novel, Pleasure Model. It was just too light, too insubstantial, like the first three chapters of a novel puffed up to novel length. I was hoping for something more along the lines of Wired Books Cortext line of some years back. They were reissues, but all three of the ones I read were far more interesting than this. If Heavy Metal Pulp wants to be the Hardcase Crime of sf noir their editors should look back to that Cortext model. I was excited at the idea of this new book line(Heavy Metal Pulp) but I was done after the first novel, Pleasure Model. It was just too light, too insubstantial, like the first three chapters of a novel puffed up to novel length.

I was hoping for something more along the lines of Wired Books Cortext line of some years back. They were reissues, but all three of the ones I read were far more interesting than this. If Heavy Metal Pulp wants to be the Hardcase Crime of sf noir their editors should look back to that Cortext model.

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