Pulp

This blog post first appeared at Amazing Stories

I learned a lot about pulp magazines from the early Asimov. To be precise, from The Early Asimov . I'd encountered a few samples of pulp a little earlier, through the mysterious Ms X, as detailed here, and they were magical. But it was Asimov who put it all in context. I got Volume 1 of his collection from a friend, who stole it from a little shop off Vienna's Kaertner Strasse. I still feel guilty about it, though I didn't know until later, a...