Amazing Stories Magazine
February 1963 Editor Cele Goldsmith
Started in 1926, Amazing Stories has quite the
history. We’re celebrating its 88th anniversary all this month (though
truth to tell it’s only actually celebrated 75 of those birthdays, missing a
few in the late 90s, a few in the aughts and a handful more since 2005).
It occurs to me that most readers may not have
as intimate a familiarity with the magazine as I do, nor have a collection of
the issues to turn to and may not be familiar with the several fine resources
there are to be found on the net that can tell you all kinds of wonderful
things about each and every issue of the world’s first, sometimes the world’s
finest and occasionally the world’s most execrable, science fiction magazine.
Contents
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4 • Editorial (Amazing Stories, February 1963) •
[Editorial (Amazing Stories)] • essay by Norman M. Lobsenz
6 • ... Or So You Say (Amazing Stories, February
1963) • essay by uncredited
8 • Recovery Area • novella by Daniel F. Galouye
8 • Recovery Area • interior artwork by Vernon
Kramer
20 • Recovery Area [2] • interior artwork by
Vernon Kramer
27 • Recovery Area [3] • interior artwork by
Vernon Kramer
44 • Recovery Area [4] • interior artwork by
Vernon Kramer
67 • Arthur C. Clarke • [SF Profile] • essay by
Sam Moskowitz
78 • The Smart Ones • short story by Jack
Sharkey
78 • The Smart Ones • interior artwork by
George Schelling [as by Schelling]
88 • Phoenix • [Qanar] • short story by Marion
Zimmer Bradley and Ted White
88 • Phoenix • interior artwork by Virgil
Finlay
99 • The Tale of the Atom • (1935) • short story
by Philip Dennis Chamberlain
99 • The Tale of the Atom: Introduction • essay
by Sam Moskowitz
100 • The Tale of the Atom • interior artwork
by Leo Summers [as by Summers]
106 • How Deep the Grooves • short story by
Philip José Farmer
106 • How Deep the Grooves • interior artwork
by Dan Adkins [as by Adkins]
119 • The Spectroscope (Amazing Stories,
February 1963) • [The Spectroscope] • essay by S. E. Cotts
119 • Review: The Man in the High Castle by
Philip K. Dick • review by S. E. Cotts
120 • Review: The Drowned World by J. G.
Ballard • review by S. E. Cotts
121 • Review: Lord of Thunder by Andre Norton
• review by S. E. Cotts