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By the end of the 19th century, stories centered on scientific inventions, and stories set in the future, were appearing regularly in popular fiction magazines.

The market for short stories lent itself to tales of invention in the tradition of Jules Verne.

Magazines such as Munsey's Magazine and The Argosy, launched in 1889 and 1896 respectively, carried a few science fiction stories each year.

Some upmarket " slick " magazines such as McClure's, which paid well and were aimed at a more literary audience, also carried scientific stories, but by the early years of the 20th century, science fiction ( though it was not yet called that ) was appearing more often in the pulp magazines than in the slicks.