Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1928

# Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1928

This issue of Amazing Stories Quarterly contains "The Sunken World" by Stanton A. Cobblentz, a science fiction novel exploring an Atlantis narrative with original scope. The story follows the mysterious reappearance of Ensign Anson Harkness seven years after the disappearance of the experimental U.S. submarine X-111 in May 1918. The X-111 was an advanced vessel—a narrow, pipe-like steel craft two hundred feet long, equipped with unprecedented water-piercing searchlights invented by Kansas engineer Walter Tamrock and featuring compartmentalized construction. When Harkness appears at the Navy Department with physical evidence confirming his identity, an investigation unfolds revealing what became of the sunken vessel and its thirty-nine crew members. The editors' prefatory notes stress the story's technical plausibility and thematic depth regarding civilization, technological power, and moral application of scientific advancement.