Argosy All-Story Weekly Super Pack - A Positronic Book: A Positronic Book

Burroughs, Edgar Rice; Leinster, Murray

ISBN 10: 1515417395 / ISBN 13: 9781515417392

Published by Positronic Publishing, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Argosy All-Story Weekly Super Pack - A Positronic Book: A Positronic Book
• Publisher: Positronic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1515417395
• ISBN 13: 9781515417392
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Argosy is considered the very first pulp fiction magazine. It was launched in 1882 as a children's magazine, but quickly changed its target audience as it realized children were not in charge of their reading money and could not be counted on to renew subscriptions.

Argosy started publishing science fiction and fantasy almost immediately upon making this change. One cannot overstate Argosy's place in the history of science fiction. Without this reliable outlet many giants of the field may never have reached an audience. Include here are over 200,000 words from that venerable magazine.

About the Author

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American novelist and one of the most influential creators of popular adventure fiction in the twentieth century. Born in Chicago in 1875, Burroughs worked in a variety of jobs before turning to fiction and quickly finding success in the pulp magazines. His imagination ranged across jungles, deserts, lost cities, prehistoric worlds, alien planets, and heroic frontiers, and his fiction helped define several overlapping traditions: jungle adventure, lost-world romance, planetary romance, science fantasy, and fast-paced pulp storytelling.Burroughs is best remembered as the creator of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, but his wider body of work is much broader than those two famous figures suggest. His novels and stories brought together danger, romance, survival, exotic geography, ancient civilisations, strange creatures, and bold speculative premises in a form that proved enormously influential on later science fiction, fantasy, comics, film serials, and adventure fiction. For readers of classic science fiction and fantasy, Burroughs remains a central figure: a writer whose instinct for momentum, setting, and wonder helped shape the imaginative vocabulary of modern popular storytelling.