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How cheap pulp magazines shaped modern fiction

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Cheaply printed short story collections stamped onto incredibly terrible paper essentially invented the modern hardboiled detective and gritty sci-fi genres. The cheapest reading material on earth completely revolutionized highly dramatic storytelling.

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