This archive gathers thematic series that explore pulp magazine history, early science fiction, and the cultural machinery that shaped twentieth-century speculative storytelling. Each series is designed as a focused line of inquiry—part scholarship, part excavation, part narrative reconstruction.
About this work: This is pulp archaeology—excavating lost histories, forgotten creators, and the visual language of adventure storytelling.
Rather than presenting episodes as isolated commentary, The Rocketeer Podcast Series Archive organizes them as curated exhibitions. Each series functions as a self-contained interpretive space within a larger living museum of pulp magazine history. Series are presented below in chronological order.
Pulp 101: An Introduction to Pulp Fiction History
This ongoing series serves as an entry point into the world of pulp magazines and early popular fiction.
Pulp 101 examines how the pulp industry functioned—its editorial systems, publishing economics, visual culture, and the writers and artists who defined its most influential decades. Episodes explore how genre fiction developed through the magazine marketplace, from adventure and mystery pulps to the early foundations of science fiction.
This series is designed both as an introduction for new listeners and as a structural overview for readers already familiar with pulp history who want to understand how the system itself operated.
- Episode 1: The Dime-Novel Roots – The Roots of Adventure and Where the Whole Damn Thing Started
- Episode 2: The Great Genre Explosion – 1920s and 1930s
- Series is ongoing in 2026
Amazing Stories Centennial: Counterfactuals
This series marks the centennial era of Amazing Stories by exploring alternate histories of early science fiction publishing.
Each episode in the Amazing Stories Centennial: Counterfactuals series examines a key moment in genre history and asks how science fiction might have evolved under different editorial, cultural, or historical conditions. These are grounded thought experiments—anchored in research, but structured as interpretive reconstructions of possible genre futures.
The series functions as both historical analysis and speculative criticism, using counterfactual storytelling to illuminate the real forces that shaped early science fiction and pulp magazine history.
- Episode 1: If Amazing Stories Had Never Existed: A continuing inquiry into science fiction’s editorial origins and alternative futures
- Episode 2: 1915: The Year the War Almost Killed Science Fiction – Gernsback’s Steadfast Vision
- Series is ongoing in 2026
Navigation Note
This archive will expand as new series are added. Completed series will later be relocated to the Exhibition Hall as fully curated collections within the broader Lucina Press museum structure.
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