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    The Thing From -- "Outside"
    The Thing From -- "Outside"
    The Thing From -- "Outside"
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    The Thing From -- "Outside"

    By George Allan England

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    This was one of the 6 science fiction stories published in the first issue (April 1926) of the first magazine devoted to science fiction, Amazing Stories, edited and published by Hugo Gernsback, now considered to be the father of the science fiction genre.He described this story:

    "Here is an extraordinary story by the well-known magazine writer, George Allan England. This story should be read quite carefully, and it is necessary to use one's imagination in reading it.
    "The theme of Mr. England's Story is unusual and extraordinary. If we can take insects and put them upon the dissecting table in order to study their anatomy, is there a good reason why some super-Intelligence cannot do the same thing with us humans?
    "It may be taken as a certainty that Intelligence, as we understand it, is not only of our earth. It is also not necessary to presume that Intelligence may have its setting only in a body of flesh and blood.
    "There is no reason for disbelieving that a Super-Intelligence might not reside in gases or Invisible structures, something which we of today cannot even imagine."

    The copyrights of the magazine and of the individual authors were not renewed.Therefore, this work is in the public domain in the United States.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooklassic
    Release dateJun 29, 2015
    ISBN9789635267019
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      The Thing From -- "Outside" - George Allan England

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      Introduction

      This story was one of 6 short stories that appeared in the first issue of the first magazine devoted to science fiction, Amazing Stories: The Magazine of Scientifiction, volume 1, number 1, April 1926, edited by Hugo Gernsback and published by his company, Experimenter Publishing Company.

      Before Amazing, science fiction stories had made regular appearances in other magazines, including some published by Gernsback, but Amazing helped define and launch the new genre we call science fiction. Amazing was published, with some interruptions and changes of ownership, for almost eighty years.  

      Gernsback's editorial in the first issue asserted that Not only do these amazing tales make tremendously interesting reading—they are also always instructive. He had always believed that scientifiction, as he called these stories, had educational power, but he now understood that the fiction had to entertain as well as to instruct. His continued belief in the instructional value of science fiction was not in keeping with the general attitude of the public towards pulp magazines, which was that they were trash.  Pulp magazines, such as Amazing Stories, were printed on the cheapest kind of paper available, called pulp paper, which kept the price low so the magazine could reach the mass of people rather than the elite at whom the expensive glossy magazines were targeted. Here exactly is his introduction of the new magazine:

      ANOTHER fiction magazine! At first thought it does seem impossible that there could be room for another fiction magazine in this country. The reader may well wonder, Aren't there enough already, with the several hundreds now being published? True. But this is not another fiction magazine, AMAZING STORIES is a new kind of fiction magazine! It is entirely new — entirely different — something that has never been done before in this country. Therefore, AMAZING STORIES deserves your attention and interest. 

      There is the usual fiction magazine, the love story and the sex-appeal type of magazine, the adventure type, and so on, but a magazine of Scientifiction is a pioneer in its field in America.

      By scientifiction I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story— a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision. For many years stories of this nature were published in the sister magazines of AMAZING STORIES — Science & Invention and Radio News.

      But with the ever increasing demands on us for this sort of story, and more of it,

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