Amazing Stories, July 1969

# Amazing Stories, July 1969

This issue features Robert Silverberg's novel Up the Line (first of two parts), beginning at page 6. The story follows a young man named Jud Elliott who joins the Time Service as a Courier in the mid-Twenty-First Century, gaining access to travel through history. The narrative opens with Elliott's encounter with Sam, a Black man working part-time in a sensory-experience establishment in Under New Orleans (2159), who introduces him to time travel philosophy. The story explores themes of ancestral connection, genetic modification, and historical exploration.

The issue also contains short stories: "Only Yesterday" by Ted White, "Hue and Cry" by Bob Shaw, "The Poison Pen" by Milton Lesser, "No Place to Go" by Henry Slesar, and "Puzzle in Yellow" by Randall Garrett. Features include an editorial by Ted White discussing the Apollo 8 launch and science fiction's origins with Hugo Gernsback, "The Pendant Spectator" by Leon E. Stover on the science of man, and "The Future in Books" by William Atheling and Ted White.