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- noun Plural form of
pulp . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pulp .
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Examples
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Yet underlying MB's paean to the pulps is a palpable resentment against those in certain "stuffy" literary quarters who just won't grant such fiction its due.
Genre Fiction 2010
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The wonderful world of science-fiction pulps is populated with lithe heroes, bosomy heroines, bug-eyed monsters and space-suited villains from Mars.
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The wonderful world of science-fiction pulps is populated with lithe heroes, bosomy heroines, bug-eyed monsters and space-suited villains from Mars.
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This is a pretty amazing show and sale: one year, I bought 100 slightly water-damaged cowboy pulps from the 1930s for $25 Canadian.
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The clichés of the pulps are all there: rockets, battles with aliens — and women dressed in tight and revealing attire.
Mind Meld: If The SF/F Community Ran Hollywood... Lou Anders 2008
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In that era of the pulps, which is the 20s into the early 40s, really between the wars, the forces of good invariably triumphed.
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Dan notes that the publishing business has been the least business-like of businesses and, quite rightly, points out that the pulps were a beneficial component of staying power, and the Literary Saloon points out that countless “literary” authors could have been marketed for the price of the Ronald Reagan memoir flop.
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The pulps were a curious phenomenon, hitting their heyday at a point when money was at its scarcest.
Comic Book Resources 2009
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This summation always includes a rundown of the circulation of the remaining speculative fiction magazines, sometimes referred to as the "pulps" because of the cheap wood pulp paper on which they used to be printed.
Last of the pulps; NPR Top Five Crime Novels Ed Gorman 2008
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This summation always includes a rundown of the circulation of the remaining speculative fiction magazines, sometimes referred to as the "pulps" because of the cheap wood pulp paper on which they used to be printed.
Archive 2008-11-01 Ed Gorman 2008
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