Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Before Amazing, science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction. Amazing was published, with some interruptions, for almost eighty years.

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  • Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Before Amazing, science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction. Amazing was published, with some interruptions, for almost eighty years. The title first changed hands in 1929, when Gernsback was forced into bankruptcy and lost control of the magazine. Amazing became unprofitable during the 1930s and in 1938 was purchased by Ziff-Davis, who hired Raymond A. Palmer as editor. Palmer made the magazine successful though it was not regarded as a quality magazine within the science fiction community. In the late 1940s Amazing began to print stories about the Shaver Mystery, a lurid mythos which explained accidents and disaster as the work of robots named "deros"; the stories were presented as fact, and led to dramatically increased circulation but also widespread ridicule. Palmer was replaced by Howard Browne in 1949, who briefly entertained plans of taking Amazing upmarket. These plans came to nothing, though Amazing did switch to a digest format in 1953, shortly before the end of the pulp-magazine era. A brief period under the editorship of Paul W. Fairman was followed, at the end of 1958, by the leadership of Cele Goldsmith. Despite her lack of experience she was able to bring new life to the magazine, and her years are regarded as one of Amazing's most creative eras. She was unable to arrest the declining circulation, though, and the magazine was sold to Sol Cohen's Universal Publishing Company in 1965. Under Cohen Amazing was filled almost entirely with reprinted stories. Cohen did not pay a reprint fee to the authors of these stories, and this brought him into conflict with the newly-formed Science Fiction Writers of America. The conflict cost Amazing two successive editors in a short period at the end of the 1960s. Ted White took over as editor after Malzberg, eliminated the reprints and made the magazine a respected name again: Amazing was nominated for the prestigious Hugo award three times during his tenure. White left at the end of the 1970s. The 1980s saw Amazing pass into the hands of TSR in 1983 and Wizards of the Coast (who purchased TSR in 1997), who made intermittent attempts over the next twenty years to create a successful modern incarnation of the magazine. A last attempt was made by Paizo Publishing at the end of 2004, but publication was suspended after the March 2005 issue and never resumed. Gernsback's initial editorial approach was to blend instruction with entertainment; he believed science fiction could educate readers. His audience rapidly showed a preference for implausible adventures, however, and the movement away from Gernsback's idealism accelerated when the magazine changed hands in 1929. Despite this, Gernsback had an enormous impact on the field: the creation of a specialist magazine for science fiction spawned an entire genre publishing industry. The letter columns in Amazing, where fans could make contact with each other, led to the formation of science fiction fandom, which in turn had a strong influence on the development of the field. Writers whose first story was published in the magazine include Howard Fast, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Thomas M. Disch. Overall, though, Amazing itself was rarely an influential magazine within the genre. Some critics have commented that by "ghettoizing" science fiction, Gernsback in fact did harm to its literary growth, but this viewpoint has been countered by the argument that science fiction needed an independent market in which to develop if it were to reach its potential.
  • Amazing Stories, paru pour la première fois en avril 1926, est le premier magazine de science-fiction américain. Il est appelé parfois Amazing Science Fiction. Créé par Hugo Gernsback, il apparaît aujourd'hui comme un pulp classique, avec son papier de qualité médiocre et la page couverture criarde. Hugo fut influencé par les écrit de Percival Lowell pour créer Amazing Stories. À ses débuts, il propose des histoires dites « romances scientifiques ». Gernback crée le terme «scientifiction» (abrégé en stf) pour catégoriser le genre. Après quelques années, le terme s'est transformé en science-fiction. Malgré le fait qu'il soit un pulp, Gernsback essaie d'en faire un produit de qualité. Par exemple, les pulps avaient les côtés grossièrement découpés, alors qu'Amazing Stories avait les rebords bien tranchés. Gernsback publie alors régulièrement les auteurs qu'il considérait comme les pères de la science-fiction: H. G. Wells, Jules Verne et Edgar Allan Poe. Ce n'est qu'après plusieurs années que le magazine ne contiendra que des écrits originaux. Bien que le magazine soit le premier à paraître, il arrive à point dans le monde de l'édition. Gernsback s'occupe déjà de Modern Electrics depuis 1909, lequel met l'emphase sur la science et les inventions. Ce magazine publie également des histoires de science-fiction, populaires parmi ses lecteurs. Suite à la Grande dépression, Gernsback se retrouve en faillite et doit vendre Amazing Stories. Dans la même année, il lance une publication rivale, Science Wonder Stories. Les nouveaux propriétaires d'Amazing Stories installent T. O'Conor Sloane comme éditeur. Il occupe ce siège jusqu'en 1938, quand le magazine est vendu à Ziff Davis. Sous la houlette du nouvel éditeur Raymond A. Palmer, le magazine devient un succès commercial, mais la dérision des critiques pour les histoires farfelues (par exemple, il existerait vraiment des créatures intelligentes sous Terre) le rendent suspect. Ziff Davis ajoute ensuite le magazine Fantastic Adventures à sa collection, toujours sous la conduite de Palmer, lequel est plus orienté vers le fantasy. En 1954, ce magazine fusionne avec Fantastic puis, après plusieurs changements de noms, avec Amazing Stories en 1980. Durant les années suivantes, Amazing Stories connaît plusieurs problèmes. En 2000, sa publication est arrêtée, puis relancée en 2004 par Paizo Publishing. Cependant, en décembre 2004, la compagnie annonce que la publication est suspendue indéfiniment à partir d'avril 2005. Pendant les premières années de publication, une publication hors série était faite sous le nom d'Amazing Stories Quarterly. Il existe un magazine de science-fiction britannique, Amazing Science Stories, qui n'a aucun lien avec Amazing Stories. Steven Spielberg a produit une série télévisée de 1985 à 1987 qui portait le même nom, Amazing Stories, en mémoire de son père qui lisait ce magazine.
  • ファイル:Amazbuck. jpg 1928年8月号表紙。『宇宙のスカイラーク』の一シーンを描いている(画・フランク・R・パウル) 『アメージング・ストーリーズ』 (Amazing Stories) は、1926年にアメリカ合衆国で創刊された世界初のサイエンス・フィクション専門誌。アメリカSFの草分けとなった。誌名は『アメージング・サイエンス・フィクション・ストーリーズ』に何度か変更された。 1926年4月にヒューゴー・ガーンズバックにより創刊。今日の目から見ると、紙質が安っぽくて表紙絵がけばけばしい、古典的なパルプマガジンである。表紙絵の多くは有名なSF画家フランク・R・パウルが手掛けた。タイトルロゴは、誌名の1文字目のAから最後のSまでを段々と小さく描いたもの。当時のパルプマガジンで主流だった探偵、西部劇、パイロット、少女、沼地の怪物や、複合ジャンルは扱わず、元来「サイエンティフィック・ロマンス」と呼ばれていたスタイルの物語ばかりを掲載した。ガーンズバックは「サイエンティフィクション」(略してstf/ステフ)という合成語を作ってこのジャンルを表した。これが後年「サイエンス・フィクション」(略してSF/エスエフ)として知られるようになるジャンルである。 けばけばしい外観にも関わらず、ガーンズバックは高級な商品にしようとしていた。ほとんどのパルプマガジンはおよそ180 x 250 mmの大きさで、端を切りそろえていないアンカット本だったのに対し、『アメージング』は少し大きく200 x 280 mmにして、きれいに裁断し、少し高めの定価をつけた。ガーンズバックが SF の父とみなしたウェルズ、ヴェルヌ、ポーの作品を頻繁に掲載した。書き下ろし作品を増やすには既存の作家の水準がまだ十分でなかったので、数年間は他の作家の過去の作品も掲載した。
  • Amazing Stories, pierwsze w historii pismo poświęcone fantastyce naukowej, założone w Nowym Jorku w 1926 r. (pierwszy numer wyszedł w kwietniu) przez Hugo Gernsbacka. Pismo zaliczało się do tzw. "pulp magazines", których nazwa pochodziła od marnej jakości papieru, na którym były drukowane. Amazing Stories nieco różniło się od typowych pulp - miało rozmiary ok. 220x280 mm, przycięte strony i wyższą cenę. Ukazywało się do czasów współczesnych, wydawane przez licznych wydawców i pod różnymi wariantami podstawowego tytułu. Po Gernsbacku najbardziej znanymi wydawcami byli: T. O'Conor Sloane, Raymond A. Palmer i Cele Goldsmith Lalli. Sloane wydał pierwsze utwory takich autorów, jak: Jack Williamson, John W. Campbell Jr. , Clifford D. Simak, czy E.E. Smith. Dzięki Palmerowi zadebiutował Isaac Asimov – jego utwór, Marooned Off Vesta, został wydany w 1939 r. Goldsmith zaś propagował Nową Falę w s-f, publikując utwory takich pisarzy, jak: Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Keith Laumer, Sonya Dorman, Roger Zelazny, Fritz Leiber i J. G. Ballard. Przez krótki czas, w latach 1967-1968 redaktorem był Harry Harrison. Ostatni, jak na razie, numer ukazał się w kwietniu 2005 r. Okładki wielu początkowych zeszytów zaprojektował Frank R. Paul.
  • A revista estadunidense Amazing Stories, por vezes rebatizada de Amazing Science Fiction, foi publicada pela primeira vez em abril de 1926, tornando-se assim a primeira revista dedicada exclusivamente a publicar histórias do gênero conhecido hoje por ficção científica (FC). É considerada também como a primeira revista de ficção científica em todo o mundo. Criada por Hugo Gernsback, com muitas de suas capas desenhadas pelo legendário Frank R. Paul, apresentava um logo inovador que seria bastante copiado, com o nome da revista escrito em letras que iam progressivamente diminuindo de tamanho. Amazing Stories apresentava histórias de "romance científico". Gernsback cunhou o termo "scientifiction" (ou "ciencificção", abreviado "STF") para designar o gênero, o qual, com o passar dos anos, acabou por tornar-se "ficção científica".
  • Первый номер журнала «Amazing Stories» считается первым в мире массовым журналом, целиком посвящённым научной фантастике.
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  • Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction. Before Amazing, science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch a new genre of pulp fiction. Amazing was published, with some interruptions, for almost eighty years.
  • Amazing Stories, paru pour la première fois en avril 1926, est le premier magazine de science-fiction américain. Il est appelé parfois Amazing Science Fiction. Créé par Hugo Gernsback, il apparaît aujourd'hui comme un pulp classique, avec son papier de qualité médiocre et la page couverture criarde. Hugo fut influencé par les écrit de Percival Lowell pour créer Amazing Stories. À ses débuts, il propose des histoires dites « romances scientifiques ».
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  • Amazing Stories, pierwsze w historii pismo poświęcone fantastyce naukowej, założone w Nowym Jorku w 1926 r. (pierwszy numer wyszedł w kwietniu) przez Hugo Gernsbacka. Pismo zaliczało się do tzw. "pulp magazines", których nazwa pochodziła od marnej jakości papieru, na którym były drukowane. Amazing Stories nieco różniło się od typowych pulp - miało rozmiary ok. 220x280 mm, przycięte strony i wyższą cenę.
  • A revista estadunidense Amazing Stories, por vezes rebatizada de Amazing Science Fiction, foi publicada pela primeira vez em abril de 1926, tornando-se assim a primeira revista dedicada exclusivamente a publicar histórias do gênero conhecido hoje por ficção científica (FC). É considerada também como a primeira revista de ficção científica em todo o mundo. Criada por Hugo Gernsback, com muitas de suas capas desenhadas pelo legendário Frank R.
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