The boom in science fiction was somewhat delayed. There were no new science fiction pulps in 1937, and in 1938 only two appeared: Captain Hazzard (1 issue, 1938), a mediocre hero pulp about a ...

As we entered the 1950s and the Atomic Age, pulp fiction magazines had all but disappeared by 1955. Television absorbed most pulp writers and carried on the tradition of cheap, thrilling stories.

Maybe pulp science fiction helped create the science culture in which women feel out of place and sometimes even unwelcome. Advertisement Super Science Stories cover, April 1949.