Amazing Stories Quarterly was a U.S. science fiction pulp magazine published from 1928 to 1934. Launched by Hugo Gernsback as a companion to his Amazing Stories, the first science fiction magazine, it premiered with a reprint of H.G. Wells' When the Sleeper Wakes in the Winter 1928 issue. Over the next five issues only one more reprint appeared: Gernsback's own novel Ralph 124C 41+, in the Winter 1929 issue. He went bankrupt in early 1929, and lost control of both publications; his assistant, T. O'Conor Sloane, took over as editor. The magazine began having financial difficulties in 1932, and the schedule became irregular; the last issue was dated Fall 1934. Authors whose work appeared in Amazing Stories Quarterly include Stanton A. Coblentz, Miles J. Breuer, A. Hyatt Verrill, and Jack Williamson. Critical opinions differ; Everett Bleiler considers few of the stories to be of acceptable quality, but Milton Wolf and Mike Ashley regard the work Sloane published in the early 1930s to be some of the best in the new genre.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1916:
The last in a series of letters was written wherein Britain would support Arab independence from the Ottoman Empire in return for launching a revolt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMahon%E2%80%93Hussein_Correspondence
1952:
Facing likely electoral defeat, former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista staged a coup d'état to resume control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista
1968:
Vietnam War/Laotian Civil War: North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces overwhelmed the American, Laotian, Thai, and Hmong defenders of Lima Site 85. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lima_Site_85
2000:
The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaked at 5048.62, the high point of the dot-com boom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
2008:
The New York Times revealed that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had used a prostitution service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Spitzer_prostitution_scandal
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
stronghold: 1. A place built to withstand attack; a fortress. 2. (figuratively) A place of domination by, or refuge or survival of, a particular group or idea. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stronghold
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
People who are eccentric enough to be quite seriously virtuous understand each other everywhere, discover each other easily, and form a silent opposition to the ruling immorality that happens to pass for morality. --Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Friedrich_Schlegel