Discover the 'Missing Link' Era of Science Fiction The rise of SF (or sci-fi) as a genre was boosted by a new generation of SF-only pulp magazines from 1926 onwards. But science fiction was published (and popular) in the general run of fiction magazines which had their heyday before the 1930s. In fact, there is a vast gulf between the pioneers of the 19th Century - Jules Verne, Edgar Allen Poe,...