Awards Eligiblity Post 2018

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Because all the cool kids are doing it, here’s the list of work Broadswords and Blasters published in 2018. This doesn’t include the blog posts, twitter rants, or other nonsense we may have engaged in. We would love to hear what your favorite story was from last year, and you can use this if you are thinking about nominating any of the stories below. Stories are listed by issue and by the order they appeared in the table-of-contents. All stories fall into the short story category.

2018 saw Broadswords and Blasters publish 4 issues:

Issue 4 (January 6, 2018)

1. “Commander Saturn and the Deadly Invaders from Rigel by Richard L. Rubin
2. “Demons Within” by Karen Thrower
3. “Monsters in Heaven” by Steve Dubois
4. “A Brush With Death” by Benjamin Cooper
5. “Granny May Saves the Day” by Freddie Silva, Jr.
6. “Regarding the Journal of Jessix Rutherford and Its Connection to the Beacon’s…

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Pulp Consumption: SOLO: A Star Wars Story

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Pulp Consumption: Solo: A Star Wars Story.

No, I’m not trying to claim that STAR WARS is pulp with this article, as its general themes of a grand evil to be overcome, a plucky band of adventures, and a complete heroic arc puts it firmly in the realm of a fantasy epic. SOLO, however, is a great case for a pulp style adventure.

The film opens with Han being a thief on the planet Corellia, working for a Fagin type figure of Lady Proxima who controls the underground. In an attempt to get out from under her thumb, he ends up fleeing Corellia, but ends up leaving his girlfriend, Qi’ra behind. Originally enlisting with the Imperial Navy, at some point he ends up being busted down to regular Imperial Army and finds himself in the mud in the middle of a battle. It’s there that he meets Tobias Beckett and…

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