Amazing Stories, Vol. 2 No. 9

About this issue

This is an issue of Amazing Stories magazine featuring science fiction and early radio/vocational school advertisements. The featured content includes Jules Verne's "Robur the Conqueror" (serial, part one), H. Hugh Simmons's "Hicks' Inventions with a Kick" (about an electro-hydraulic bank protector), J. Rodman's "The Undersea Express," Charles H. Rector's "Crystals of Growth," Miles J. Burr's "The Riot at Sanderac," and George Paul Rotter's "Below the Infra Red" (concerning a device enabling humans to perceive beyond ordinary sensory ranges). Editor Hugo Gernsback's "Strange Facts" editorial discusses humanity's irritation with the unknown and scientific innovation, using Galileo as a historical example of rejected scientific truth. Upcoming issues advertised include stories on murder mystery solving, human over-reliance on automobiles, and alternate inhabited planets.