That science fiction's emphasis is always on phenomena—to the point where reviewers and critics can commonly use such phrases as "the idea as hero." The emphasis on phenomena, often at the complete ...

"Sidewise in Time" isn't the first story to feature parallel worlds, but it does bring the concept to a pulp science fiction audience when the story is published in Astounding Stories in 1934.

She was Lulu, the cutest, hottest belly-dancer this side of Farouk…’. So begins Marc Brody’s The Bride Wore Black, one of the 900 or so Australian pulp fiction publications that were purchased in 2005 ...

Douglas West, Dead Weight in Authentic Science Fiction Monthly. London: Hamilton and Co., March 1957. Pulp Literature Special Collections PN6120.95.S33 A97 The Healer in Astounding Science Fiction.

The origin of the term “science fiction” appears. Journalist and magazine proprietor Hugo Gernsback launches a pulp magazine which initially reprints tales by Verne, Wells and Edgar Allen Poe.