Pulp Magazines Quotes

“Hugo Gernsback invented pulp magazines and the grandfather paradox. Not bad for a charlatan.”
― James Gleick, Time Travel: A History

“I think that students tend to dislike what they are made to read i class, and I would hate to see science fiction and fantasy lifted out of its position as sort of a criminal genre and given academic respectability, because I think that when it hails academic respectability a great many people are going to say it's dull I don't want to read that. I read pulp magazines in the period when kids who read pulp magazines frequently had to do it under the covers with a flashligth, because their parents would not let them read pulp magazines. They as a result wanted very much to read the magazines.”
― Gene Wolfe