{"id":2,"count":3,"description":"From the late 1800s to the 1950s, pulp magazines provided working-class readers with inexpensive popular literature by favorite authors. The growing genre of science fiction literature found a wide audience in such publications. The first science fiction story published was Charles H. Palmer\u2019s \u201cCitizen 504,\u201d which appeared in the first issue of <b><I>Argosy<\/I><\/b> in December 1896. Additional pulp magazines specializing in speculative fiction, such as <b><I>Astounding Stories of Super-Science<\/I><\/b> and <b><I>Amazing Stories<\/I><\/b>, helped popularize science fiction, making it accessible to mass audiences. Inexpensive pulp paperback novels helped feed the demand for such literature, and the works of well-known authors were published in high-quality hardcover books. ","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/section\/introduction\/","name":"Introduction","slug":"introduction","taxonomy":"section","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/section"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item?section=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}