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udhcmh: Pulp Saturday doesn’t remember the pistol-packing hoodlums in the gas masks from the myth of Perseus and Andromeda but is intrigued by the possibilities. Cover of Astounding for November 1933 illustrates “Beyond the Sphinxes’ Cave” by Murray Leinster. Explorers, armed with pistols and electric torches, descend into a Greek cave that leads down to the actual Hades. Hades’ realm turns out to be a little different than the legends represented… After 1938, Astounding became the home of serious, important science fiction but prior to that it was as wild, free-wheeling, and pulp as any of the rest. Images from The Pulp Magazines Project.
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Pulp Saturday doesn’t remember the pistol-packing hoodlums in the gas masks from the myth of Perseus and Andromeda but is intrigued by the possibilities.

Cover of Astounding for November 1933 illustrates “Beyond the Sphinxes’ Cave” by Murray Leinster. Explorers, armed with pistols and electric torches, descend into a Greek cave that leads down to the actual Hades. Hades’ realm turns out to be a little different than the legends represented…

After 1938, Astounding became the home of serious, important science fiction but prior to that it was as wild, free-wheeling, and pulp as any of the rest.

Images from The Pulp Magazines Project.

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