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            • Novels written for the mass market, intended to be "a good read,"--often exciting, titillating, thrilling. Historically they have been very popular but critically sneered at as being of sub-literary quality. The earliest ones were the dime novels of the nineteenth century, printed on newsprint (hence "pulp" fiction) and sold for ten cents. Westerns, stories of adventure, even the Horatio Alger novels, all were forms of pulp fiction. Robert Harris - VirtualSalt
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            • At five to twenty-five cents an issue, pulp fiction was a literature accessible to Americans at every income level—often sold at newsstands and drugstores. Until the mid-1950s, pulp fiction was the literature of choice for the reading public, before it was supplanted by comic books and paperbacks. - The Library of Congress-American Memory by
            • The pulp fiction era provided a breeding ground for creative talent which would influence all forms of entertainment for decades to come. The hardboiled detective and science fiction genres were created by the freedom that the pulp fiction magazines provided. - Vintage New Media, inc. by
            • Pulp fiction was a great avenue to escape the mundane and escape into a world of gangsters and good guys, cowboys and cattlemen, spaceships and star travelers. For a thin dime one could read from the pens of some of the best writers of the era: the era of pulp fiction. - Robert Wheadon by
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            • ספרות זולה
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            • היא סוגה של מגזינים זולים שנמכרו בדוכני עיתונים משנות ה-20 ועד שנות ה-50 של המאה ה-20, ולאחריהן נמכרו בתפוצה רחבה יותר. פורמט מגזיני "הספרות הזולה" הוא חוברות ברוחב 17 ס"מ, באורך 25 ס"מ, ובעובי של סנטימטר וחצי לכל הפחות. החוברות עשויות להכיל 128 עמודים, ונמכרות לעתים ב-10 סנט. הנייר הזול שעליו הודפסו המגזינים היה עשוי מציפת עץ (wood pulp) ומכאן השם ויקיפדיה - by Etty Shmuelly
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            • בשנות התיכון והקולג' המשכתי לקרוא מדע בדיוני, אך תסכולי, כאמור, גבר והלך. עידן הספרות הזולה השתלט על התחום, ורוב הסיפורים עסקו בגיבורים עם שמות כ"בריק מלוי", שנשלח להילחם בשודדי חלל, פולשים מעולמות אחרים, חרקי ענק, וכל שאר הזבל המופק בהוליווד גם בימינו. - חלומות באספמיה by Etty Shmuelly
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