<span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span>

Pulp fiction began in the 1890s with Argosy Magazine, and for the next fifty years, pulp magazines poured forth a cornucopia of genre fiction: detective, romance, science fiction, big game hunter, war stories, horror, and westerns. Because the magazines were printed on cheap paper stock, they became known as "pulp" magazines. Edgar Rice Burroughs got his start in the pulps, with A Princess of Mars and Tarzan of the Apes; other familiar names from that era include Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and E. E. "Doc" Smith.