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, 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. |
Pulps is slang for pulp magazines. |
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. |
*H. P. Lovecraft |
*Poul Anderson *Isaac Asimov *Robert Bloch *Ray Bradbury *Edgar Rice Burroughs *Raymond Chandler *Arthur C. Clarke *Philip K. Dick *Robert Heinlein *Frank Herbert |
*H. P. Lovecraft |