Amazing Stories
Hugo Gernsback’s “scientifiction” magazine, just three issues young — ray-guns and rockets on the newsstand decades before the Space Age caught up.
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📖 Pulp — Something to read for the pleasure of it.
Amazing Stories, No. 1
The one that started it all: April 1926, the first-ever magazine devoted entirely to science fiction, Frank R. Paul’s rockets hot off the press.
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The second issue, May 1926 — Gernsback reprinting Verne, Wells and Poe and calling it the future. He was right.
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June 1926, issue three, with a Frank R. Paul sea serpent rearing over a little boat — and H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and Ellis Parker Butler billed on the cover like a headline act.
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August 1927, and Frank R. Paul has drawn a walking war-machine on stilts because H. G. Wells said there were some. “Scientifiction” at full throttle.
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April 1928, and the cover is one enormous eye with a city reflected in it. Nearly a hundred pages, still costing a quarter, still promising $300 in prizes on page five.
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turning the page…
reading on OSSmile · scan courtesy of the Internet Archive
