Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories, June 1926 This science fiction pulp contains eight stories spanning scientific romance and speculative fiction. Jules Verne's serialized "A Trip to the Center of the Earth" (second installment) depicts intrepid explorers encountering sea monsters in an inner world. G. Peyton Wertenbaker's "The Coming of the Ice" presents apocalyptic climate catastrophe. H. G. Wells contributes "The Star," while Charles S. Wolfe's "Whispering Ether" explores wireless communication. Murray Leinster's "The Runaway Skyscraper" depicts an urban structure vanishing. Ellis Parker Butler's "An Experiment in Gyro-Hats" offers lighter speculative invention. Otis Adelbert Kline's "The Malignant Entity" provides supernatural horror, and Clement Fezandie continues his "Doctor Hackensaw's Secrets" series describing minor inventions. Jacque Morgan's "Mr. Fosdick Invents the Seidlitzmobile" presents comedic technological invention. The issue emphasizes Gernsback's editorial philosophy positioning "Extravagant Fiction" as tomorrow's science.