science fiction published in the pulp magazines of the early–mid twentieth century; any science fiction regarded as being characteristic of these magazines, esp. in being action-driven or based on clichéd ideas, plots, or characterizations
Also in form pulp SF.
Many of the best pulp artists have been recruited from newspaper ranks.]
I had thought that Weird Tales had risen above the cheap, pulp horror-thrillers, but after reading Isle of the Undead I wonder.]
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.
Someday the classics of pulp fanatsy [sic] will get their due. That day is not yet. The publishers ask $2.50 for this book. You could buy more and better stories for a quarter that price on any newsstand.]
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.
Jonathan Maberry is a highly prolific creator of pulp horror fiction who mostly focuses on short and snappy horror stories that feature vampires and zombies.]
antedating 1939
editorial note in Amazing Stories
We are looking for both "pulp sf" and "pulp science fiction".
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