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Amazing Stories
This issue of *Amazing Stories* (August 1926, Vol. 1 No. 5) features classic science fiction, much reprinted from earlier authors. The primary contents include: "A Columbus of Space" by Garrett P. Serviss (serial, part 1), continuing adventures of space travelers on Venus; "The Empire of the Ants" by H. G. Wells; "The Scientific Adventures of Mr. Fosdick (The International Electro-Galvanic Undertaking Corp.)" by Jacque Morgan; Jules Verne's "Doctor Ox's Experiment"; "The Talking Brain" by M. H. Hasta, featuring a scientist communicating with a living brain via Morse code; "High Tension" by Albert B. Stuart, M.D.; and "Station X" by G. McLeod Winsor (2nd installment), depicting conflict between Venusians and Martians. Editor Hugo Gernsback's column discusses supposedly "impossible" scientific phenomena that became fact, citing examples like compressed water ice and solar heat transmission.