Pulp magazines

Pulp magazines, often called simply "pulps", were cheap, often sensationalistic and/or exploititive magazines published in the 1930s - 1950s. The name comes from the cheap woodpulp paper on which they were printed. Pulps were the successor to the "[penny dreadfuls]?" of the nineteenth century.

Pulp magazines can be categorized into the following genres:

• Detective / Mystery
• Romance
• Science Fiction
• [True Crime]?
• Western

Many well-known authors note for the pulps at one time or another. Note that many people would make a distinction between an author who wrote for the pulps but later went on to transcend the limitations of the genre, and a "pulp author", who did not.

Well-known authors who wrote for the pulps include:

• Poul Anderson
• Isaac Asimov
• Robert Bloch
• Ray Bradbury
• Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Raymond Chandler
• Arthur C. Clarke
• Philip K. Dick
• Robert Heinlein
• Frank Herbert
• Robert E. Howard
• H. P. Lovecraft
• Clark Ashton Smith

Many classic science fiction books were originally serialized in pulp magazines.

The genre also gave name to the movie [Pulp Fiction]?.