"Amazing Stories", Vol 1 No 1 (April 1926) (ed Hugo Gernsback) (magazine, free): Annotated table of contents
Scans of this magazine in CBZ format are online as part of a larger package.
This inaugural issue of Amazing Stories also happens to be the inaugural issue of the first magazine ever, dedicated exclusively to science fiction. I suppose that makes it a collector's item!
It includes at least a few reprints. I'm not sure if there is at least some original fiction here; ToC page doesn't enlighten on the subject in an obvious way.
Where I'm aware of alternate download links for individual stories, I include that too.
Table of contents.
- [reprint, translation] [serial - part 1/2] Jules Verne's "Off on a Comet - or Hector Servadac"; download: "The scientific probabilities of the universe beyond our earth".
Not read. - H G Wells' "The New Accelerator"; download collection that includes this story.
Not read. - G Peyton Wertenbaker's "The Man from the Atom"; download: "the growth of a man to cosmic dimensions... his strange sensations... the picture of his emotions & despair."
Not read. - George Allen England's "The Thing from - Outside": "If we can take insects & put them upon the dissecting table in order to study their anatomy, is there a good reason why some super-Intelligence cannot do the same thing with us humans?"
Did this story inspire William Tenn's "Of Men & Monsters"?
Not read. - Austin Hall's "The Man Who Saved the Earth": "his horror at the Frankenstein which he had unloosed, & ... his wild efforts to save humanity, & of the loss of the cosmic discoveries of the little newsboy grown up to be a great scientist."
Not read. - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Facts in the Case of Mr Valdemar"; download: "gruesome story" involving "the higher philosophy & the future world."
Not read.
Related.
- Fiction from Amazing Stories.
- Works of or about Hugo Gernsback (including fiction he wrote).
- Fiction originally published during 1920s.
- "pulp" magazines.
2 comments:
For more information on Hugo Gernsback check out a new biography available on Amazon.
The document was found by me when we closed down Gernsback Publications in 2003. It was an old ms that I edited and produced as a book.
Follow the link and you can go to the book and thanks to Amazon’s “look inside” feature, you can even get an idea of what it covers.
http://www.amazon.com/Hugo-Gernsback-Well-Ahead-Time/dp/1419658573/ref=ed_oe_p
Hope you find it interesting.
The book is also available as an E-book for the Kindle or your PC or Mac at Amazon.
For more information feel free to contact me, Larry Steckler, at PoptronixInc@aol.com
Larry: This is your third comment here with this same identical text. We've learned about the book you're promoting, thanks; you don't have to add it to every post that has Gernsback's name in it. But please don't add this comment again here. Thank you.
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