Paizo Publishing, LLC. has announced it has formally ceased publication of AMAZING STORIES Magazine. AMAZING was first published in April of 1926, created by Hugo Gernsback, who the HUGO awards were named for, considered by many the ‘father’ of Science Fiction. He coined the term word “scientifiction”, which was eventually smoothed into science fiction.

After Gernsback, editor Raymond A. Palmer, (who the DC Comics character the Atom was named after as an affectionate tribute) took over. Palmer was a writer himself, and something of a playful trickster, alienating many serious SF fans and authors by pushing hackneyed space opera, and publishing hoaxes such as the Shaver Mystery and ‘real-life’ Flying Saucer tales. He later launched the infamous FATE magazine.

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