Line #17 Magazine/AmazingStories


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3	''Amazing Stories'' was the [[TropeMaker first]] magazine devoted solely to {{Science Fiction}}. It was founded in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback (in whose honor the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s are named) and published continuously until 1995. A revival attempt in 1998 was unsuccessful, as was a second in 2004, and the final issue was published in 2005.
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5	Technically speaking, ''Amazing'' was not originally a PulpMagazine, being published in a larger format on slick paper -- but it "went pulp" for a few years from 1933 on.
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7	During the 1980s, the title was licensed for a GenreAnthology TV series by Creator/StevenSpielberg: ''Series/AmazingStories''. Unfortunately the magazine didn't capitalize on the TV show's publicity.
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9	Scans of the original magazine's run can be found in the [[https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?and%5B%5D=amazing the Internet Archive]].
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11	Works that debuted in ''Amazing Stories'' include:
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13	* ''Literature/Armageddon2419AD'', the first Buck Rogers story by Philip Francis Nowlan
14	* "I Remember Lemuria!" by Creator/RichardSharpeShaver
15	* ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'' by Ursula K. Le Guin
16	* "Marooned Off Vesta", the first published story by Creator/IsaacAsimov
17	* ''Literature/SkylarkSeries'' by E. E. "Doc" Smith
18	* ''Literature/TheStarKings'' by Edmond Hamilton
19	* "When the Atoms Failed", the first published story by Creator/JohnWCampbell
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21	!!''Amazing Stories'' contains examples of:
22	* {{Feghoot}}:
23	** The magazine had a regular contribution called "Through Time and Space with Benedict Breadfruit" by Grandall Barretton (a pseudonym for Creator/RandallGarrett) which were all [=Feghoots=] that used the names of other well known science fiction writers.
24	** A later Briarton story had somebody ask Feghoot if Breadfruit could be trusted. "Absolutely," replied Feghoot. "He was conceived in our Garrett."
25	* HandsomeHeroicCaveman: Creator/ManlyWadeWellman wrote a series of adventure tales about a brave young Cro-Magnon named Hok the Mighty. He's a bit of an AntiHero, as there's a fair bit of DeliberateValuesDissonance going on, although his handsomeness is beyond question. Most of his family are also described as good-looking (though Hok is implied to be the handsomest of the bunch), in contrast to the brutish FrazettaMan Neanderthals they are pitted against.
26	* {{Lunarians}}: The shor story "Flight of the Vampires", has the Earth attacked by vampiric pterodactyl-like creatures from the Moon.
27	* RecursiveReality: One of the oldest ScienceFiction examples is ''He Who Shrank'' by Henry Hasse. The protagonist is injected with a serum that causes him to shrink smaller than an atom, where he discovers that every atom is a solar system, with a nucleus for a sun and electrons that orbit like planets. He shrinks through several universes until he [[EarthAllAlong lands on our world]], and tells his story to a writer who unsuccessfully tries to sell the story to a newspaper as nonfiction.
28	* StrollingOnJupiter: In ''They Fly So High'' by Ross Rocklynne (''Magazine/AmazingStories'' June 1952), two men AbandonShip over Jupiter and are caught in its gravity well. Their pressure-suits with ArtificialGravity protect them as they're falling into the gas giant, until they land on a surface of a strange liquid made solid by surface tension. It's also stated there's a DomedCity somewhere near the Great Red Spot.
29	* TeleFrag: Charles Cloukey published a story call "Anachronism" where Mr. Wentworth is killed by an iron ball being teleported into his brain.

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