Amazing Stories

This July 1926 issue of Amazing Stories, edited by Hugo Gernsback, features editorial content and fiction. The front matter includes Gernsback's essay "Fiction Versus Facts," which defends the magazine's practice of prefacing stories with claims about their scientific plausibility. Gernsback argues that "impossible" inventions like radio and aircraft were once deemed nonsense, and today's speculative fiction may become tomorrow's reality. He notes the magazine rejects purely fantastical plots while acknowledging occasional liberties in otherwise scientifically grounded narratives. The issue also includes an editor's note quoting author G. Peyton Wertenbaker on scientifiction's literary and educational value. The featured serial is "Station X" by John Coleridge, a British radio espionage narrative beginning with protagonist Alan Macrae departing Plymouth for a mysterious six-month assignment at a foreign radio station before his engagement to May Treherne can proceed.