Pulp Novels and Arthur C. Clarke

Pulp science fiction are commonly saw as low quality literature and most people try keeping away from them as they consider them to be trash. However, these people are often misled to conclude different, commonly negative facts, about the pulp novels especially given their price and the quality of the paper on which they are published. Pulp books are often published in rather poor quality and this is to maintain the accessibility that most people have and should have when it comes to comic books or other such types of pulp magazines. Yet, on this website people can discover that pulp science fiction is not as valueless as most people think as it constituted the departing point for some of the most successful writers in the world.

Arthur C. Clarke is a British writer born in 1917 and who became famous thanks to his novels and short stories as well as his futuristic vision of the world. One of his most popular pieces was 2001: A Space Odyssey but he was also known as a result of his participation in hosting and commenting in the British TV series Mysterious World. Arthur Clarke, together with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov are known as the Big Three in the world of science fiction and all of them have shared their passion for pulp science fiction as well as for literature in general.

Arthur C. Clarke was born in England and it is a known fact that he enjoyed the pulp science fiction magazines from America ever since he was a young boy. He studied at the Huish Grammar School in Taunton and soon after finishing he became an auditor in the Board of Education, in the pensions section. His financial possibilities did not allow him to pursue university education and when he was 31 he enrolled in the army, in the Royal Air Force where he was a radar instructor and technician. In 1945 he proposed a satellite communication system that brought him the Gold Medal awarded by the Franklin Institute Stuart Ballantine in 1963.