Pulp magazines, so named for the wood pulp paper they were printed on, descended from penny dreadfuls and dime novels of the 19th century, and were huge in the 1920s and 1930s.
They were looked down on by the literary elite, but they begat modern detective fiction, science fiction, racy, shock value adventure and horror stories, and comic books. Writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury and Dashiell Hammett got their start in the pulps.
Today, as the detective story grows increasingly formulaic or tamed, and science fiction goes the way of the soap opera, we at NexGen Pulp seek to pick up where the glory days of these genres left off. In doing so, we claim a direct descent in a line that has otherwise become muddied and diluted.
They were looked down on by the literary elite, but they begat modern detective fiction, science fiction, racy, shock value adventure and horror stories, and comic books. Writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury and Dashiell Hammett got their start in the pulps.
Today, as the detective story grows increasingly formulaic or tamed, and science fiction goes the way of the soap opera, we at NexGen Pulp seek to pick up where the glory days of these genres left off. In doing so, we claim a direct descent in a line that has otherwise become muddied and diluted.
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