Amazing Stories, Vol. 1, No. 8

# Museum Catalog Note

This November 1926 issue of Amazing Stories contains the first installment of Garrett P. Serviss's serial The Second Deluge (three parts), concluding chapters of H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and A. Hyatt Verrill's Beyond the Pole, plus standalone stories: "The Mad Planet" by Murray Leinster and Jules Verne's "A Drama in the Air." The lead feature follows Cosmo Versal, a brilliant but diminutive scientist who discovers astronomical evidence that Earth will collide with a nebula, triggering catastrophic worldwide flooding. Convinced of humanity's impending destruction, Versal resolves to build a modern ark to preserve civilization. Editor Hugo Gernsback's discussion of scientific plausibility in scientifiction responds to reader criticism about logical inconsistencies in prior stories, defending authors' use of poetic license while maintaining scientific probability.