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First issue of Amazing Stories, art by Frank R. Paul. This copy was autographed by Hugo Gernsback in 1965. Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction.
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Amazing Stories began publication in 1926 under the editorship of Hugo Gernsback. The first actively copyright-renewed issue is May 1954 (v. 28 no. 2). The first actively copyright-renewed contribution is from December 1932 (v. 7 no. 9). (More details) From 1958 onward the name fluctuated, sometimes including "Science Fiction" along with or instead...
1926-1928: HathiTrust has volumes 1 and 2freely readable online. Access may be restricted outside the United States. Some later issues may be searchable but not readable online here.1926: The Internet Archive has volume 1, number 1, dated April 1926.1926: The Internet Archive has volume 1, number 2, dated May 1926.1926: The Internet Archive has volume 1, number 3, dated June 1926.The Amazing Stories websitehas issues of the current online incarnation (2012-) along with a blog and other online features.
We also list Amazing Stories Annual, which published a single issue in 1927.We also list Amazing Stories Quarterly, a companion to this magazine.In April 1926, a Luxembourgian-American inventor and electrical enthusiast, Hugo Gernsback, published his inaugural issue of Amazing Stories, the first and longest-running English-language magazine dedicated to what was then not quite yet called "science fiction"—a field it would, for better and for worse, define for the modern era.
By 1929, he sold the magazine and moved on to other ventures, none of them particularly successful. Amazing Stories soldiered on, under a series of editors and with widely varying readerships until it finally succumbed in 2005, after almost eighty years of publication.
Still accepting science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories in the late 1990s, Amazing Stories was the oldest science fiction magazine in the nation. Publisher Gernsback emigrated to America from Luxembourg in 1904, and quickly established a business selling dry cell batteries and home radio sets.
Feb 21, 2022 · Amazing Stories began its near 100 years of publication on March 10th, 1926. For the first three years of its existence, it was the ONLY science fiction publication in the entire world.