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The first book in Larry Correia's MONSTER HUNTERS INC. series is available for free download for Kindle right now, and from what I've heard, it sounded like the sort of pulp that I enjoy. So I have downloaded it, with the intention that, if I like it, I'll go ahead and buy them.
And it's basically competent.
If he cut out about half the words, I think he'd be at about average for the pulps. There's nothing new in the first book, and it's a bit draggy.
Honestly, I think that if he took a Viable Paradise class from Macdonald and Doyle, he'd turn into a fantastic pulp author, but I think he really needs some editing, at least in the first book, to kick up his skill level.
That said, I'm reading his first book, which was six years ago, and he's written a bunch of books since then, so he may have done so by now.
But I definitely don't see it as the sort of thing that is award-winning. Not even within its subgenre: there's a fair bit of modern urban fantasy about monster hunters, and this is about average.
And it's basically competent.
If he cut out about half the words, I think he'd be at about average for the pulps. There's nothing new in the first book, and it's a bit draggy.
Honestly, I think that if he took a Viable Paradise class from Macdonald and Doyle, he'd turn into a fantastic pulp author, but I think he really needs some editing, at least in the first book, to kick up his skill level.
That said, I'm reading his first book, which was six years ago, and he's written a bunch of books since then, so he may have done so by now.
But I definitely don't see it as the sort of thing that is award-winning. Not even within its subgenre: there's a fair bit of modern urban fantasy about monster hunters, and this is about average.