Pulp magazines

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.

Pulp magazines can be categorized into the following genres:

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

Pulps is slang for pulp magazines.

Well-known authors who wrote for the pulps include:

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

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

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