Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring 1928

This issue of Amazing Stories Quarterly contains the serial "A Modern Atlantis" by Frederick Arthur Hodge, a science fiction tale grounded in inventor Edw. R. Armstrong's isleport designs—actual patented models that allegedly remain stable in turbulent seas. The story opens in 1922 at Harvard Club with reunited war veterans Bob Holden, an aeronautics scientist, and Jerry Scott, an artist-soldier. Scott recounts the backstory of Jack Rutherford and Kathleen Riley, an Irish nurse and daughter of an executed Irish independence activist, who met during combat in 1918 and married in Paris. The narrative diverges into the early 1930s depicting a massive experimental aircraft approaching a mid-ocean destination, presumably involving the isleport technology and implied conflict with advanced weaponry. The magazine's editorial notes the evolution toward original fiction over reprints and claims American authors now surpass Jules Verne and H.G. Wells in scientifiction achievement.