Amazing Stories
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| - | Major American science fiction magazines include ''[[Amazing Stories]]'', ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'', ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'', ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction]]'', and ''[[Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine]]''. The most influential and longest running British science fiction magazine was ''[[New Worlds (magazine)|New Worlds]]''. Many science fiction magazines have been published in languages other than English, but none has gained worldwide recognition or influence in the world of [[anglophone]] science fiction. | + | |
| + | '''''Amazing Stories''''' magazine, sometimes retitled '''''Amazing Science Fiction''''', was first published in April [[1926]] in [[New York City]], thereby becoming the first magazine devoted exclusively to publishing stories in the genre presently known as [[science fiction]] (SF). It is regarded as the world's first [[science fiction magazine]]. After the April 2005 issue, the magazine went on "hiatus" and as of March 2006, the magazine's current publisher announced that it would no longer be published. | ||
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| + | Created by [[Hugo Gernsback]], with many of its covers by the legendary [[Frank R. Paul]], it featured a much-imitated logo of the magazine name in ever-shrinking letters. ''Amazing Stories'' was filled with stories of "scientific romance". Gernsback coined the [[portmanteau]] word "scientifiction" (abbreviated "STF") as a name for the genre which, over the years, became science fiction. | ||
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Amazing Stories magazine, sometimes retitled Amazing Science Fiction, was first published in April 1926 in New York City, thereby becoming the first magazine devoted exclusively to publishing stories in the genre presently known as science fiction (SF). It is regarded as the world's first science fiction magazine. After the April 2005 issue, the magazine went on "hiatus" and as of March 2006, the magazine's current publisher announced that it would no longer be published.
Created by Hugo Gernsback, with many of its covers by the legendary Frank R. Paul, it featured a much-imitated logo of the magazine name in ever-shrinking letters. Amazing Stories was filled with stories of "scientific romance". Gernsback coined the portmanteau word "scientifiction" (abbreviated "STF") as a name for the genre which, over the years, became science fiction.
