![]() And before the last few decades, it has been a discussion with relatively little participation or input from those people formally trained and officially qualified to discuss literature. At first a conversation primarily involving Americans, it soon spread to England and Europe and, eventually, to countries all over the world. ![]() ![]() The dialogue then moved outside the magazines into private correspondence, personal interactions at meetings and conventions, newsletters and amateur magazines called fanzines, and critical studies and bibliographies published by small presses. The conversation was started in the 1920s by the editors and writers of American pulp magazines, who offered their thoughts in editorials, blurbs, articles, reviews, and ancillary materials next, readers joined in with letters, followed by editorial replies and additional responses from other readers. It has been, by any measure, one of history’s most extensive discussions about one particular branch of literature. ![]() Gary Westfahl The Popular Tradition of Science Fiction Criticism, 1926-1980 ![]()
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