pulp science fiction n.

This month we present Abner J. Gelula, author of that near-classic, ‘Automaton’, which was the first pulp science fiction story ever to be sold to the movies.

Immediately arises the question, how did the superb craftsmanship and delicate enchantment of current pulp science fiction arise from the earlier sagas of stereotyped characters dwindling into atomic-sized universes amid plots packed with improbably lush coincidence?

The causes were two: directly, my acquaintance with the Mañana Literary Society, which existed in fact precisely (aside from murders) as it is depicted in this book; indirectly, the fact that pulp science fiction had, at that time, just reached maturity both in thinking and in writing and was at a fine ripe stage to make converts easily.

Yet he never sneered at honest pulp science fiction.

Otherwise, in a rather short time everything we ‘know’ about pulp SF will be secondhand inferences and adumbrations by earnest, painstaking, unempathetic, style-deaf, obtuse people.

With utopian plausibility denied to it, this American pulp SF of the Teens became highly imaginative.

‘Triumph Over Terror’ goes meta, as it looks at an alien invasion stymied by pulp SF writers.