21st Century Pulp: Complete Novellas and Short Stories

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Summary: They just don't write 'em like this anymore
Review: It's pretty rare to find any kind of masked-avenger type fiction any more, but Turowski offers two in this volume: one about a girl raised by raccoons in a sort of bizarre take on Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan (she feels compelled to dress like a raccoon, watches bad guys from the trees, speaks raccoon-ese) that makes for silly fun. The other features an Asian pulp hero living in racist prohibition-era San Francisco and fighting off white gangsters. An interesting twist. There is also a story called "The Bugboys" about highly evolved bats who act like cowboys and a couple other science fiction and horror stories that come from the pulp tradition. I think this is Turowski's first book. He did the cover and most of the illustrations. A fun book!