He was among the stalwart group of early sci-fi pulp writers who popularized the genre.
Booklist magazine said he "may be the last of the pulp writers."
These were fine for the old pulp writers of the 1930s, but in modern fiction, use them carefully.
Fisher would also break into slick magazines during this period, a rare feat for a pulp writer.
When did the pulp writer become the writer of quality?
Relations with his fellow pulp writers were not always so cordial.
Margie Harris (birth and death dates unknown) was a pulp writer from 1930-39.
Her published output includes less than a hundred known stories, low for a pulp writer, but many of them were novelettes or short novels.
The novel describes friendship and rivalry among pulp writers of the 1930s.
In the 1930s, Sale was one of the highest paid pulp writers.