Amazing Stories, Vol. 1, No. 5

This August 1926 issue of *Amazing Stories*, edited by Hugo Gernsback, contains the first installment of Garrett P. Serviss's three-part serial "A Columbus of Space," depicting adventurers encountering Venustians on the light side of Venus. H.G. Wells's "The Empire of the Ants" appears alongside Jacques Morgan's "The Scientific Adventures of Mr. Fosdick" (featuring the International Electro-Galvanic Undertaking Corp.), Jules Verne's "Doctor Ox's Experiment," M.H. Hasta's "The Talking Brain" (cover story, featuring a scientist examining a disembodied brain via Morse code), Albert B. Stuart's "High Tension," and the second installment of G. McLeod Winsor's "Station X" (concerning Martian invasion). The editorial discusses scientific phenomena once deemed impossible—boiling hot ice under extreme pressure, sunlight transmitting no direct heat through vacuum, and insects surviving years without food.