CHAPTER FOUR: The Golden Age.

Chapter Four of the book "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950," by Mike Ashley is presented. It explores the history of science-fiction (SF) literature in the U.S., transitioning from magazine science fiction to science-fiction pulp in 1938, It accounts that before the Second World War started in 1941, the release of various SF stories in different publications such as magazines, comics, pulps and digest was a competition among numerous publishers.