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Black and white illustration of Jules Verne's tombstone, in the shape of a bearded man's torso rising diagonally from the ground, with right arm stretched out to the sky and a flat tombstone on his back.
JULES VERNE'S TOMBSTONE AT AMIENS PORTRAYING HIS IMMORTALITY

AMAZING STORIES
Vol. 1 No. 8
Nov. 1926

EDITORIAL & GENERAL OFFICES: 53 Park Place, New York City
Published by Experimenter Publishing Company, Inc.

H. Gernsback, Pres.; S. Gernsback, Treas.; R. W. DeMott, Sec'y
Publishers of Science & Invention, Radio News, Amazing Stories, Radio Review, Radio International.




CONTENTS

Contents For November


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OUR COVER

shows the great Ark ready for launching. It is protected from attack of the maddened (illegible text) by an electrified barrier. Though warned of the coming deluge, humanity scoffed, and now pays with death the neglect to built similar arks in which to escape.

COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENT

"A Drama in the Air", by Jules Verne, copyright 1911, by Vincent Parke & Co., (Parke, Austin & Lipscomb Co.)

In Our Next Issue:

THE MAN HIGHER UP, by Edwin Balmer and William B. MacHarg. An engrossing story of experimental psychology, involving the reading of the mind by curves produced by means of a detecting apparatus.


THE TIME ELIMINATOR, by Kaw. This is a scientific love story. By utilizing light waves produced in the remote past, the events of preceding centuries and years are thrown upon a screen and a bride is won thereby; but how?


THE LORD OF THE WINDS, by Augusto Bissiri. A great scientist has a project for controlling the climate of the hemisphere, or at least of the northern part. The project is a gigantic one in plant and possibilities, but the inventor eventually perishes when approaching his triumph.


THE EDUCATED HARPOON, by Charles S. Wolfe. This is a wonderful detective story, highly scientific instrument is devised for purposes of crime but the criminal overlooked one detail and was caught.


THE SECOND DELUGE, by Professor Garrett P. Serviss. The second installment of this engrossing story. Read about the Noah of the future, who built his ark out of a marvelous light metal of the coming ages.

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