Amazing Stories, Nov 1926

Amazing Stories, November 1926 This issue of the early science fiction pulp contains four serials and one complete story. "The Second Deluge" by Garrett P. Serviss begins its three-part run in this first installment, depicting a future catastrophe in which a prophetic Noah-figure constructs an ark from an advanced lightweight metal to survive an impending deluge while skeptical humanity perishes. H.G. Wells's "The Island of Dr. Moreau" concludes its two-part serialization, while A. Hyatt Verill completes "Beyond the Pole," also a two-part serial. "The Mad Planet" by Murray Leinster appears as a complete story. Jules Verne's "A Drama in the Air" (originally published 1911) rounds out the fiction content. The editorial by Hugo Gernsback addresses reader correspondence concerning scientific plausibility in scientifiction narratives, defending authorial poetic license while acknowledging the genre's tension between imaginative speculation and scientific accuracy.