Amazing Stories, Vol. 1, No. 7

# Amazing Stories, October 1926

This October issue of Hugo Gernsback's science fiction magazine contains multiple serials and short stories. The featured work is "Beyond the Pole" (first part) by A. Hyatt Verill, presented as a manuscript discovered by ornithologist Dr. Abbott E. Lyman on Kerguelen Island. While studying Antarctic birds, Lyman finds an albatross tangled in an unknown metallic cord attached to a glass cylinder containing the manuscript—an indestructible material that melts only under focused light. The issue concludes serials "A Columbus of Space" and "The Purchase of the North Pole," while beginning H.G. Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau." Other featured works include "Blasphemers' Plateau" by Alexander Snyder. Editor Gernsback's essay argues that science fiction stimulates genuine technological innovation by providing imaginative stimulus to inventors, citing historical cases like Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.