Amazing Stories, Vol. 3, No. 1

# Amazing Stories: April 1928 Issue

This issue of Amazing Stories, the science fiction pulp edited by Hugo Gernsback, contains a major H.G. Wells serial, "A Story of the Days to Come" (Part I), which opens with the character Mr. Morris, a Victorian-era English gentleman of perfect conventional sensibility whose orderly life anchors the narrative before the story advances to its titular future setting.

The featured fiction includes "The Yeast Men" by David H. Keller, M.D.; "The Way of a Dinosaur" by Hurley S. Aldinger; "The Miracle of the Lily" by Clare Winger Harris; "The Ancient Horror" by Hal Grant; "The Master Key" by Charles S. Wolfe; and "The Return of the Martians" by Cecil B. White. Gernsback contributes "Baron Munchausen's Scientific Adventures."

The issue also announces coming attractions: "Four Dimensional Robberies" by Bob Olsen (exploring theft via fourth-dimensional instruments), continuation of the Wells serial, and "The Octopus Cycle" by Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt (about an intelligent mollusk menace). The issue prominently features a $300 prize contest seeking symbolic designs for the neologism "scientifiction."