'Amazing Stories', the world’s first science fiction magazine - originally published in 1926 by the father of science fiction Hugo Gernsback (after which the Hugo Awards are named after) - is back and opened for Beta Testing of Phase 1 on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013.
Set to relaunch with a new Social Magazine Platform, 'Amazing Stories' will feature content from 50+ bloggers, covering an enormous array of subjects of interest to genre fans.
According to their
press release on their blog:
“We’ve got authors and agents, bloggers and editors, pod casters and broadcasters; we’ve got gamers and game designers; artists and art collectors; pulpsters and indie authors; we’ve got Hugo winners, John W. Campbell Memorial Award winners, John W. Campbell Best New Writer winners, Nebula and Hugo Award winners and nominees and winners and nominees of many other awards; people who review films, people who make films; we’ve got fanboys and fangirls; we’ve got former editors of Amazing Stories, writers who’ve become synonymous with the field and writers who are just getting started; comic artists, book reviewers; traditionally published authors, self-pubbed authors and authors who’ve done it all. The response to my request for participation was phenomenal – it couldn’t be more perfect if I had set out with a list of must-haves!” said Steve Davidson, publisher."
The Amazing Stories’ Social Magazine platform is designed to create an interactive environment that will be familiar to fans with blog content designed to encourage discussion and take things beyond the usual user-generated content model for social networks.
The Amazing Stories Blog Team aim to cover popular topics such as – Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, (lit), Film, Television, Gaming, Comics and Graphic Works, the Visual Arts, the Pulps, Audio Works, Anime, the Business of Publishing, Science and Fandom itself.
Follow their blog and like their page on
Facebook.
Check out some of the classic covers from the original 'Amazing Stories' from the 1920's through to the 1960's below.
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| 1926-04 Amazing Stories V1 #1, Cover Art by Frank R Paul |
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| 1926-05 |
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| 1926-06 |
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| 1926-11 |
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| 1927 Annual |
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| 1927-01 |
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| 1927-02 |
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| 1927-07 |
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| 1927-08 |
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| 1927-09 |
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| 1927-10 |
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| 1932-07 |
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| 1939-11 |
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| 1941-01 |
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| 1941-03 |
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| 1941-06 |
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| 1941-08 |
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| 1941-10 |
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| 1942-02 |
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| 1942-03 |
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| 1943-02 |
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| 1947-10 |
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| 1947-12 |
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| 1948-03 |
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| 1948-06 |
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| 1949-07 |
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| 1950-02 |
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| 1950-07 |
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| 1950-08 |
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| 1952-05 |
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| 1952-09 |
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| 1963-11 |
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