Amazing Stories
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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Rockets, ray-guns and “scientifiction”, decades before the Space Age caught up.
Science Wonder Stories, No. 1
June 1929, issue number one. Gernsback had just lost Amazing Stories and started the whole thing over again from scratch the same year — and here is the first cover of the do-over, a deep-sea craft levelling a great brass tube at the dark.
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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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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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Astounding Stories of Super-Science
The pulp that would grow up to steer all of science fiction, caught here in its bright, breathless first year.
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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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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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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.
⬇ FREE PDF · 6.1 MB📭 Nothing on this shelf yet — Science Fiction is a space we have swept and labelled and not filled. Something will lean up against it soon; in the meantime there are 9 other categories on the 📖 Pulp shelf. ☕
turning the page…
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