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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8365437" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Careful, most people today are utterly unaware of the sheer scope and size of the 'pulp' and associated categories of fiction in the last 19th and early 20th Centuries. They could easily swamp the entirety of modern fantasy and sci-fi and not even burp. There were INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS who had output in the 100's of millions of words. Yet most of it was basically low grade formula trash with cardboard cut-out characters and stock material. </p><p></p><p>For whatever reason, these authors saw no need to produce a better grade of material, and apparently the publishers were perfectly happy selling 1 cent 'dreadfulls' to kids and aspired to little else. It wasn't until the 20's and Hugo Gernsback and Amazing Stories that there was SOME improvement. That was mostly caused by the fact that paper and distribution costs increased, so the available page space shrank, and with higher cover prices you got a bit more demanding audience. Even so, most of what was in the 20's pulps is pretty bad stuff. </p><p></p><p>So, I would attribute any improvement, such as it may be, more to an audience that is more discerning and well-educated and the fact that even mass-market paperbacks are not really dirt cheap at $12 and up! Even so, there's plenty of schlock out there, though IMHO it seems to cluster more in the serial military-sci-fi sub-genre than anywhere else...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 8365437, member: 82106"] Careful, most people today are utterly unaware of the sheer scope and size of the 'pulp' and associated categories of fiction in the last 19th and early 20th Centuries. They could easily swamp the entirety of modern fantasy and sci-fi and not even burp. There were INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS who had output in the 100's of millions of words. Yet most of it was basically low grade formula trash with cardboard cut-out characters and stock material. For whatever reason, these authors saw no need to produce a better grade of material, and apparently the publishers were perfectly happy selling 1 cent 'dreadfulls' to kids and aspired to little else. It wasn't until the 20's and Hugo Gernsback and Amazing Stories that there was SOME improvement. That was mostly caused by the fact that paper and distribution costs increased, so the available page space shrank, and with higher cover prices you got a bit more demanding audience. Even so, most of what was in the 20's pulps is pretty bad stuff. So, I would attribute any improvement, such as it may be, more to an audience that is more discerning and well-educated and the fact that even mass-market paperbacks are not really dirt cheap at $12 and up! Even so, there's plenty of schlock out there, though IMHO it seems to cluster more in the serial military-sci-fi sub-genre than anywhere else... [/QUOTE]
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