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''Amazing Stories'' was the [[TropeMaker first]] magazine devoted solely to {{Science Fiction}}. It was founded in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback (in whose honor the UsefulNotes/{{Hugo Award}}s are named) and published continuously until 1995. A revival attempt in 1998 was unsuccessful, as was a second in 2004, and the final issue was published in 2005.

Technically speaking, ''Amazing'' was not originally a PulpMagazine, being published in a larger format on slick paper -- but it "went pulp" for a few years from 1933 on.

During the 1980s, the title was licensed for a GenreAnthology TV series by Creator/StevenSpielberg: ''Series/AmazingStories''. Unfortunately the magazine didn't capitalize on the TV show's publicity.

Scans of the original magazine's run can be found in the [[https://archive.org/details/pulpmagazinearchive?and%5B%5D=amazing the Internet Archive]].
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Works that debuted in ''Amazing Stories'' include:

* ''Literature/Armageddon2419AD'', the first Buck Rogers story by Philip Francis Nowlan
* "I Remember Lemuria!" by Creator/RichardSharpeShaver
* ''Literature/TheLatheOfHeaven'' by Ursula K. Le Guin
* "Marooned Off Vesta", the first published story by Creator/IsaacAsimov
* ''Literature/SkylarkSeries'' by E. E. "Doc" Smith
* ''Literature/TheStarKings'' by Edmond Hamilton
* "When the Atoms Failed", the first published story by Creator/JohnWCampbell
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!!''Amazing Stories'' contains examples of:
* {{Feghoot}}:
** The magazine had a regular contribution called "Through Time and Space with Benedict Breadfruit" by Grandall Barretton (a pseudonym for Creator/RandallGarrett) which were all [=Feghoots=] that used the names of other well known science fiction writers.
** A later Briarton story had somebody ask Feghoot if Breadfruit could be trusted. "Absolutely," replied Feghoot. "He was conceived in our Garrett."
* HandsomeHeroicCaveman: Creator/ManlyWadeWellman wrote a series of adventure tales about a brave young Cro-Magnon named Hok the Mighty. He's a bit of an AntiHero, as there's a fair bit of DeliberateValuesDissonance going on, although his handsomeness is beyond question. Most of his family are also described as good-looking (though Hok is implied to be the handsomest of the bunch), in contrast to the brutish FrazettaMan Neanderthals they are pitted against.
* {{Lunarians}}: The shor story "Flight of the Vampires", has the Earth attacked by vampiric pterodactyl-like creatures from the Moon.
* RecursiveReality: One of the oldest ScienceFiction examples is ''He Who Shrank'' by Henry Hasse. The protagonist is injected with a serum that causes him to shrink smaller than an atom, where he discovers that every atom is a solar system, with a nucleus for a sun and electrons that orbit like planets. He shrinks through several universes until he [[EarthAllAlong lands on our world]], and tells his story to a writer who unsuccessfully tries to sell the story to a newspaper as nonfiction.
* StrollingOnJupiter: In ''They Fly So High'' by Ross Rocklynne (''Magazine/AmazingStories'' June 1952), two men AbandonShip over Jupiter and are caught in its gravity well. Their pressure-suits with ArtificialGravity protect them as they're falling into the gas giant, until they land on a surface of a strange liquid made solid by surface tension. It's also stated there's a DomedCity somewhere near the Great Red Spot.
* TeleFrag: Charles Cloukey published a story call "Anachronism" where Mr. Wentworth is killed by an iron ball being teleported into his brain.
* WorldShapes: A 1990s story is set in a world that's spherical, but with more than 360 degrees of rotation. In other words, if you sail 360 degrees eastward you end up somewhere that has the same time zone as your origin, but which isn't the same place.