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A collection of 2,110 science fiction pulp magazine issues from primarily the mid-20th century. Text is sampled from the "Pulp Magazine Archive" on the Internet Archive.

Usage

data(corpus_scifi_pulp)

Format

A data frame with 2110 rows and 11 variables.

Source

https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive

Details

Titles include:

  • Galaxy Magazine (n = 351)

  • Amazing Stories (n = 614)

  • Astounding Stories (n = 405)

  • Science Fiction Quarterly (n = 45)

  • Asimov Magazine (n = 407)

  • Planet Stories (n = 114)

  • IF Magazine (n = 174)

Variables

  • id. Unique identifier from the Internet Archive

  • magazine. Title of the magazine

  • description. Description (if any) provided on the Internet Archive page

  • title. Title of the issue on the Internet Archive

  • collection. Name of the collection on the Internet Archive

  • year. Year the issue was published

  • date. Date the issue was published (if provided)

  • file. File name of the plain text on the Internet Archive

  • file_name. File name when downloaded.

  • text. Full text of the issue.