Gryphon Publications

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Gryphon Publications
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Founder Gary Lovisi
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Brooklyn, New York
Publication types Books, Magazines
Fiction genres Pulp fiction, Science fiction
Official website www.GryphonBooks.com

Gryphon Publications, or Gryphon Books, is an American independent publishing company specializing in contemporary pulp stories. Owned and operated by Gary Lovisi, the company publishes Lovisi's own writing as well as that of other authors.

Pulp magazine magazine printed on cheap, wood-pulp paper

Pulp magazines were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called "glossies" or "slicks". The typical pulp magazine had 128 pages; it was 7 inches (18 cm) wide by 10 inches (25 cm) high, and 0.5 inches (1.3 cm) thick, with ragged, untrimmed edges.

Magazines

In addition to books, the company publishes the quarterly Hardboiled Magazine , as well as selected reprints in Gryphon Doubles.

Gryphon published Other Worlds magazine, edited by Lovisi, between 1988 and 1996. The editorial criteria were for "short, hard SF shockers, with impact" up to 3000 words.

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Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas."

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