Amazing Stories, July 1968

About this issue

This issue features Samuel R. Delaney's short novel "House A-Fire," a stylistically experimental narrative following a narrator on Hell's Lip reflecting on Lorq Von Ray, a wealthy figure from the Pleiades Federation. The story depicts childhood memories set across multiple worlds—Ark, New Brasilia, and Earth—rendered in introspective, subjective prose examining relationships and geographic displacement across interstellar space. The issue also contains Edmond Hamilton's reprint "Locked Worlds," Paul W. Fairman's novelet "This Is My Son," and short stories including Ivar Jorgensen's "The Genius" and Milton Lesser's "The Impossible Weapon." Editorial features include Harry Harrison's essay "The Future of the Future" discussing SF-3 as a new generation emphasizing subjective, inner-space storytelling over classical objective science fiction; Brian W. Aldiss's London and Oslo Letter; and Robert Silverberg, Poul Anderson, and Leroy Tanner's "The Future in Books." Science content addresses killer apes by Leon E. Stover.