Lester and Judy-Lynn del Rey
Judy-Lynn and Lester del Rey (Photo by David Dyer-Bennet) Quite a few years ago —well, about seventy of them, to be exact —I was the teen-age editor of two professional science-fiction magazines for...
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What a Major Pulp House Was Like in 1939 Harry Steeger didn’t take me into his confidence about his reasons for adding fifteen or twenty new half-cent-a-word titles to his existing string of twenty...
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The thing to remember about those pulp magazines of the 1920s and ’30s is that, with a few exceptions, the stories behind the lurid covers didn’t have to be any good. Not in any literary sense, at...
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