The title of Keith Cooper’s “Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact” echoes that of Amazing Stories, a magazine founded in the 1920s that was the first to be devoted to ...

This is the motto of Amazing Stories, the first magazine devoted entirely to science fiction. It’s a bold statement, and since being coined in 1925 it has largely been true. Wild predictions are ...

Amazing was instrumental in helping to create science fiction fandom, not least through the introduction of the letter column. Amazing deserves the credit it is given for its influence on the ...

Arguably the inspiration for much science fiction traces back to classical mythology. Think of it—Earthlings abducted by beings from the sky, humans morphing into strange creatures, and events that ...

JOHN W. CAMPBELL, JR., decided to study nuclear physics back in 1928 when he first read of “atomic power" in the science-fiction magazine of that day. Amazing Stories. He attended M.I.T. and ...

The father of pseudo-scientific fiction, he has started a number of pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories, Wonder Stories, etc. As a radio magazine publisher, he has given laboratory workers some ...