Pulp fiction reference tools

Since I brought up pulp fiction in the previous post, I'll be a dutiful librarian and mention a few online reference sources that should gladden the heart of pulp readers everywhere.

According to a posting on the Stumpers-L listserv, Gordon Van Gelder, the editor of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has recently announced a comprehensive online index covering stories and other items published in F&SF from 1949 to 1999. This includes the first appearances of quite a few stories by well-known authors like Robert Heinlein, Alfred Bester, et al. Now, if only more libraries had the indexed volumes on the shelves for easy access....

The FictionMags Index provides spotty but useful coverage of fiction published in many of the classic pulps such as Railroad Stories and The Shadow, as well as publications both more respectable (The Saturday Evening Post) and considerably less (Spicy Stories , Playboy, and the intriguingly titled Naughty Bits)

And of course there are always the Locus indexes.

Have fun. Drive your local interlibrary loan department crazy. Don't tell 'em I sent you.