Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories is an American pulp magazine founded by Hugo Gernsback in 1926. It was the first magazine devoted exclusively to science fiction.

Hugo Gernsback: Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish-American inventor, publisher, and editor who helped popularize science fiction. He founded Amazing Stories and edited its early issues.
Pulp magazine: A pulp magazine is an inexpensive periodical printed on low-cost wood-pulp paper. Amazing Stories used the format that made its fiction affordable and widely distributed.
T. O'Conor Sloane: T. O'Conor Sloane was an American editor, scientist, and writer who edited Amazing Stories after Hugo Gernsback. He took over editorial duties when Gernsback left the magazine in 1929.
Amazing Stories Award: The Amazing Stories Award was a reader-voted science-fiction award presented by the magazine in the 1950s. It turned the magazine's readership into participants in recognizing popular science fiction.
Science fiction: Science fiction is imaginative literature that explores possible worlds shaped by scientific or technological change. The magazine was created to publish this genre exclusively.
Reprint fiction: Reprint fiction is previously published writing republished in a later edition or periodical. Early issues relied substantially on stories by established writers that had appeared elsewhere.
Ray Palmer: Ray Palmer was an American science-fiction editor best known for editing Amazing Stories from 1938 to 1949. His editorial direction broadened the magazine's appeal and emphasized sensational stories.
Science fiction conventions: A science-fiction convention is an organized gathering for fans, writers, and professionals in the genre. The magazine's reader networks helped foster the organized fan culture behind conventions.
Gernsback's Scientifiction: Scientifiction was Hugo Gernsback's name for fiction combining scientific knowledge with imaginative storytelling. Gernsback used the term to describe the stories he wanted the magazine to publish.
Letters to the editor: Letters to the editor are reader-submitted messages published in a periodical. The magazine's correspondence columns connected readers and helped build an organized science-fiction audience.

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