{"id":1025,"date":"2010-11-26T10:51:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T14:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2010-11-26T10:51:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T14:51:38","slug":"a-history-of-golden-age-science-fiction-pulps-at-i09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/26\/a-history-of-golden-age-science-fiction-pulps-at-i09\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Golden Age Science Fiction Pulps at i09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent:0px;margin-bottom:12px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5699206\/the-golden-age-of-science-fiction-a-pulp-primer-pt-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/captain_future_golden_age_pulp.jpg\" alt=\"Captain Future pulp magazine cover\" width=\"340\" height=\"500\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">At i09, <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5699206\/the-golden-age-of-science-fiction-a-pulp-primer-pt-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jess Nevins continues the history of science fiction pulp magazines<\/a> by bursting into their golden age with the beginning of John W. Campbell&#8217;s long term at the helm of<em> Astounding<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Nevins tracks the number of sf pulps across the years &#8211; through the war and its paper rationing, not to mention the military service of many <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/grafx2\/blog\/marvel_science_stories.jpg\" alt=\"Marvel Science Stories pulp magazine cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"291\" style=\"float:right; margin:12px;margin-right:0px;\">authors (which, come to think of it, he <em>doesn&#8217;t <\/em>mention &#8211; but pulps being what they were, those publishers would surely have printed <em>something<\/em> if they were able).<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It&#8217;s also interesting to see which writers were publishing in each market even though their dizzying array of pseudonyms would make a complete list nearly impossible. But if you look carefully you can see the progress of fan writers like the Futurians beginning to break into the kinds of magazines that they&#8217;d lately been reading.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Just last night I read Leigh Brackett&#8217;s <em>The Veil of Astellar<\/em> and Henry Kuttner&#8217;s <em>We Guard the Black Planet! &#8211; <\/em>both from the years that Nevins covers here &#8211; so <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5699206\/the-golden-age-of-science-fiction-a-pulp-primer-pt-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this article<\/a> was nicely timed for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At i09, Jess Nevins continues the history of science fiction pulp magazines by bursting into their golden age with the beginning of John W. Campbell&#8217;s long term at the helm of Astounding. Nevins tracks the number of sf pulps across the years &#8211; through the war and its paper rationing, not to mention the military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-on-the-web"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webomator.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}