For the last two weeks, we’ve been saluting the centennial of Amazing Stories. The first continuing science fiction magazine made its debut on March 10, 1926, just a bit over 100 years ago! It’s still alive and kicking, publishing stories online at http://amazingstoriesmag.com/.
We celebrated this amazing anniversary by reissuing Mike Ashley’s seven-part history of the magazine, The Amazing Story. The series began on Monday, March 2, and concluded on Saturday, March 14. We hope you enjoyed it.
Ten years ago, PulpFest celebrated the 90th anniversary of Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, hosting author and editor Ted White as its Guest of Honor. Ted was the editor of Amazing and its companion magazine, Fantastic, for ten years. He succeeded Barry Malzberg in early 1969 and continued at the helm until early 1979.
If you’d like to hear a one-hour talk by Ted White about his career as an author and editor and his years at Amazing Stories and Fantastic, please click here or visit the Pulp Tales Podcast at ThePulp.Net or via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and other services.
And don’t forget to visit pulpfest.com and check out all seven parts of Mike Ashley’s history of Amazing Stories. You’ll be able to find it by clicking the “History” box on our homepage for some time to come.
Our featured image is excerpted from Stephen E. Fabian’s original front cover art for the August 1978 issue of Amazing Science Fiction. To learn more about Stephen, who passed away in May 2025, read our post, “The AMAZING Story: The Seventies — Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll.”
Our lead image is the April 1926 issue of Amazing Stories, the first continuing science fiction magazine. Published by Hugo Gernsback, it featured cover art by Frank R. Paul, considered the “grandfather of science-fiction art.” An Austrian-born artist and draftsman, Paul was a mainstay for Gernsback throughout his career as a publisher.
