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| | A Brief History of Science Fiction & Pulp Magazines |
 | | These "pulp magazines", originating with The Argosy in the 1890's, had grown and multiplied during the first 30 years of the 20th century, and by 1930 there were hundreds of titles, many "sf" oriented, many general adventure, western and air-war, some "spicy", some "love," and many "hero" or character centered. |
 | | There was a brief revival of interest in pulp magazines in the early 1940's but by 1947, pulp readers were turning to Ballantine and Ace "paperbacks", and by 1954 all the pulps were gone. |
 | | In the late 1940's, digest sf magazines such as Analog, Fantasy and Science Fiction and Galaxy were monthly sources of "science fiction," as were specialty hardcover publishers such as Gnome Press and Avalon Books, who were reprinting stories from the pulps. |
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