At one point in the earliest 1940s, approximately half of all the pulp sf and fantasy magazines in the U. S. were being edited by Futurians: Frederik Pohl at the Popular Publications offshoot Fictioneers, Inc. ( Astonishing Stories and Super-Science Stories ); Robert Lowndes at Columbia Publications, most notably with Science Fiction and Future Fiction ( though through the decade to come, Lowndes's responsibilities would expand to other types of fiction magazine in the chain ), and Donald Wollheim at the very marginal Albing Publications with the short-lived, micro-budgeted Cosmic Stories and Stirring Science Stories ( Wollheim soon moved on to Avon Books ; Doë " Leslie Perri " Baumgardt also worked on a romance fiction title for Albing ).

Other pulp fantasy fiction — such as Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom series and Leigh Brackett's Sea Kings of Mars — have a similar feel to sword and sorcery, but, because alien science replaces the supernatural, it is usually described as planetary romance or sword and planet, and considered to fall more in the area of science fiction.

Edgar Rice Burroughs ' A Princess of Mars ( 1912 ) is also sometimes seen as a major work of scientific romance, and Sam Moskowitz referred to him in 1958 as " the acknowledged master of the scientific romance ," though the scholar E. F. Bleiler views Burroughs as part of the " new development " of pulp science fiction that arose in the early 20th century.

The Nurse Paintings are a series inspired by the covers and titles of inexpensive novels that were commonly sold at newspaper stands and delis ( pulp romance novels ).

Initially published in magazines with general readership, by the 1930s the planetary romance had become very popular in the emerging science fiction pulp magazines.

* Swart Koring ( 1996 ) (" Black Corn ") ( Parody on the pulp romance novel, with a lesbian twist )

Fiction House, a major pulp publisher, had run into difficulties during the Depression, but after a relaunch in 1934 found success with detective and romance pulp titles.

As the name of the genre suggests, the planetary romance is an extension of late 19th and early 20th century adventure novels and pulp romances to a planetary setting.

In the planetary romance, space opera transformations are applied to the pulp romance genre: the bold adventurer becomes a space traveler, often from Earth, which itself stands in for modern Europe and North America ( understood as centers of technology and colonialism ).

Many pulp genres have become infamous for excesses of purple prose, including romance, mystery, and adventure ; likewise, in journalism, the term is often used to refer to writing that places tone and emotional heft over factual reporting.

His eye-catching paintings were predominately featured as covers on a wide array of pulp magazines, including romance ( Thrilling Love, Popular Love, Love Romances ) as well as detective, adventure, aviation, and westerns.

During the 1940s, Bergey continued to paint covers for romance, sports, and detective pulp magazines, and he began working on a number of science fiction magazines, including Standard Publications ' Strange Stories and Captain Future, and later for Fantastic Story Magazine.

The primary literary influence on film noir was the hardboiled school of American detective and crime fiction, led in its early years by such writers as Dashiell Hammett ( whose first novel, Red Harvest, was published in 1929 ) and James M. Cain ( whose The Postman Always Rings Twice appeared five years later ), and popularized in pulp magazines such as Black Mask.

Haggard's Lost World genre influenced several key pulp writers, including Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Talbot Mundy and Abraham Merritt.

In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine.

As science fiction entered popular culture, writers and fans active in the field came to associate the term with low-budget, low-tech " B-movies " and with low-quality pulp science fiction.

New Wave writers often saw themselves as part of the modernist tradition and sometimes mocked the traditions of pulp science fiction, which some of them regarded as stodgy, adolescent and poorly written.

It was conceived as a deliberate break from the traditions of pulp SF, which many of the writers involved considered irrelevant and unambitious.

The New Wave writers believed that the tropes of the pulp and Golden Age periods had become worn out, and should be abandonded: J. G. Ballard stated in 1962 that " science fiction should turn its back on space, on interstellar travel, extra-terrestrial life forms, ( and ) galactic wars ", and Brian Aldiss said in Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction that " the props of SF are few: rocket ships, telepathy, robots, time travel ... like coins, they become debased by over-circulation.

commercial in which a garish, hyper pitchman ( modelled after Ron Popeil ) touts a food blender that turns an entire bass into liquid pulp, " to writers and cast members the ' Bass-O-Matic ' was so exhilaratingly strange that many remember sitting and listening, open-mouthed ... Nobody felt jealous of it because they couldn't imagine writing anything remotely like it.

Many writers better known in other genres like Elmore Leonard, Leigh Brackett, and Larry McMurtry have also written Western novels The genre's popularity peaked in the 1960s, due in part to the end of many pulp magazines, the popularity of televised Westerns, and the rise of the spy novel.

In the case of U. S. crime fiction, writers that so far had been regarded as the authors of nothing but " pulp fiction " — Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and others — were gradually seen in a new light.

Bakshi enlisted comic book and pulp fiction artists and writers Harvey Kurtzman, Lin Carter, Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood and Jim Steranko to work at the studio.

An illustrator who created a series of covers for pulp magazine fantasy stories about Promethea, which were written by several writers under the pseudonym " Marto Neptura ".

Cover of Artemis Smith's 1959 lesbian pulp fiction novel The Third SexSome writers suggest that a third gender emerged around 1700 AD in England: the male sodomite.

Notable practitioners of the period were Fredric Brown, Paul Chadwick and, to a certain extent, Cornell Woolrich, although these writers tended to rarely use the Private Eye protagonists that many associate with pulp fiction.

The novel describes friendship and rivalry among pulp writers of the 1930s ; it also includes Walter Gibson, creator of The Shadow.

He was among the stalwart group of early sci-fi pulp writers who popularized the genre.

As editor of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy line, Carter, in effect created a literary canon of significant fantasy works which though it included the works of pulp writers Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft included other writers not working in that tradition.

The novel describes the friendship and rivalry among pulp writers of the 1930s ; it also includes Lester Dent, Walter B. Gibson and L. Ron Hubbard.

Following a similar path to such pulp writers as Frank Belknap Long, Wellman also wrote for various comic books ( what he called " squinkies ") and wrote the first issue of Captain Marvel Adventures for Fawcett Publishers.

In a fiction-writing context, the term is used to describe writers who are paid to churn out sensational, lower-quality " pulp " fiction such as " true crime " novels or " bodice ripping " paperbacks.

He was a wide-ranging contributor to the pulp magazines, particularly to the sports pulps, where he was considered one of the best writers in the field.

The target audience was younger readers, and the lead novels were often space operas by well-known pulp writers such as Edmond Hamilton and Manly Wade Wellman.

By the late 1920s, it shifted emphasis more from literary-quality writing to the rapidly growing pulp magazine field, which offered the widest opportunities to freelance writers.

It is roughly shaped like a large pear, and when properly ripened, its dark green skin covers a meaty, melon-like pulp that has about the consistency of a ripe Bartlett pear, but oily.

After starting his writing career by writing for " true confession " style pulp magazines like True Story, van Vogt decided to switch to writing something he enjoyed, science fiction.

Popular pulp fiction magazines like Black Mask capitalized on this, as authors such as Carrol John Daly published violent stories that focused on the mayhem and injustice surrounding the criminals, not the circumstances behind the crime.

Some critics work largely with theoretical texts, while others read traditional literature ; interest in the literary canon is still great, but many critics are also interested in minority and women's literatures, while some critics influenced by cultural studies read popular texts like comic books or pulp / genre fiction.

Felled logs are then generally transported to a sawmill to be cut into timber, a paper mill for paper pulp, or for other purposes, like fence posts.

For example, publishing houses cranked out pulp novels like The Velvet Underground that were targeted directly at gay people.

Chandler's early short stories, published in pulp magazines like Black Mask and Dime Detective, featured similar characters with names like " Carmady " and " John Dalmas ".

The novel might be easily dismissed as standard pulp fare if it had not presaged concepts popularized decades later: the sexual revolution, green consumerism, strong AI, full-immersion virtual reality as a surgical procedure ( like The Matrix ), desktop molecular manufacturing, global warming, and stem cell therapies.

These characters, like Greyshirt, were often inspired by pulp magazine and comic book archetypes, such as the boy genius and the masked detective.

Lem describes an alien species that is much more ' alien ' than those imagined by most other sci-fi authors, and certainly more alien than those found in common pulp science fiction as seen in popular television shows like Star Trek.

The basic rules provide for characters and settings that could be expected to appear in the " Wild West " genre of movies and pulp fiction, and most of the in-game action is presumed to occur in the wild frontiers of the American West, or in barely tamed frontier towns like Tombstone, Arizona or Dodge City, Kansas.

There are also natural alternatives available containing only organic substances like beeswax, vegetable oils ( such as coconut or hemp oil ), pine resin, tree pulp and natural essential oils.

Pykrete could be machined like wood and cast into shapes like metal, and when immersed in water formed an insulating shell of wet wood pulp on its surface which protected its interior from further melting.

Low consistency pulp slurries are kept agitated in these chests by propeller like agitators near the pump suction at the chest bottom.

On the way to the headbox the pulp slurry may pass through centrifugal cleaners, which remove heavy contaminants like sand, and screens, which break up fiber clumps and remove over sized debris.

Cheminformatics can also be applied to data analysis for various industries like paper and pulp, dyes and such allied industries.

This striking addition gave the silver screen Spider an appearance more like that of a traditional superhero, like other comics heroes being adapted for the era's movie serials ; it also made the serial Spider look less like the very popular Street and Smith pulp hero The Shadow, which also had been produced by Columbia and starred Victor Jory.

Just like on Pocket Book's Spider editions, the paperback sported a " modern " pulp cover painting featuring a very similar, non-costumed, but heavily armed blonde hero.