Are you planning to attend PulpFest 2016? If you are, you can now book your room directly through the PulpFest website. Along the right hand side of our home page at pulpcon.org you’ll find a link that reads “Book a Room for 2016.” Click on this link or copy and paste https://aws.passkey.com/g/51320979 into your computer’s address bar and you’ll be redirected to a web page where you can book a room at the Hyatt Regency Columbus in the city’s exciting Arena District for your stay during PulpFest 2016.
You can also reserve a room by calling 1-888-421-1442. Please be sure to mention PulpFest in order to receive the special convention rate of $118 plus tax per night. Included in your rate is one free parking pass and free Wi-Fi privileges in your room. If you’re planning to stay with another person or persons, additional cars will be charged at the discounted rate of $10 overnight with in-and-out privileges. However, you must book your room by June 30, 2016 in order to get the special convention rate.
PulpFest 2016 will be paying tribute to the history of the pulps by saluting the 150th anniversary of the birth of H. G. Wells; the 120th anniversary of the debut of the first pulp magazine, THE ARGOSY; the 100th anniversary of the genre pulps such as DETECTIVE STORY and LOVE STORY; the ninetieth anniversary of the creation of the first science fiction magazine, AMAZING STORIES; the 80th anniversaries of the premieres of two exciting hero pulps, THE SKIPPER and THE WHISPERER; and the tenth anniversary of Sanctum Books, well known for their reprints of THE SHADOW, DOC SAVAGE, THE SPIDER, and other hero pulps. Our Guest of Honor will be author, editor, and pulp fan Ted White, the man who ushered in the Golden Age of AMAZING STORIES and FANTASTIC during the 1970s and wrote the Captain America novel THE GREAT GOLD STEAL and many other books. We’ll have all this plus a dealers’ room featuring tens of thousands of pulp magazines, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, original art, first edition hardcovers, series books, reference books, dime novels and story papers, Big Little Books, B-Movies, serials and related paper collectibles, old-time radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age comic books, as well as newspaper adventure strips. For a look at our planned schedule, please visit http://pulpcon.org/2016/01/coming-soon-to-columbus-pulpfest-2016/.
The convention will take place from Thursday evening, July 21st, through Sunday afternoon, July 24th, in the Columbus, Ohio Arena district at the Hyatt Regency hotel and the city’s spacious convention center. So please book your room right now and plan to join us at the “pop culture center of the universe” for PulpFest 2016.
(Frank R. Paul, the “grandfather of science-fiction art,” painted the cover for the program book of the 13th World Science Fiction Convention — Clevention — held on September 2 – 5, 1955 at the Manger Hotel in Cleveland, Ohio. While it’s not Columbus, it’s pretty darn close. Besides, PulpFest 2016 is using Paul’s cover painting for the August 1927 issue of AMAZING STORIES, illustrating the first half of the classic H. G. Wells novel, “The War of the Worlds,” in its promotional efforts for this summer’s convention. So why not use another Paul illustration to promote the Hyatt Regency Columbus, the host hotel of PulpFest 2016, summer’s AMAZING Pulp Con!)
