“What If Amazing Stories Never Existed?” An original counterfactual argument by Sara Light-Waller, pulp historian and host of the Rocketeer Podcast. Please feel free to share these graphics as long as you tag me and/or mention my name and website, LucinaPress.com.
I had planned to speak for longer, but the material is so dense that any more would have sounded like a lecture without slides (LOL). I think it’s better to go a bit shorter and add these graphics to make things clearer. How do you think science fiction would have changed without Amazing Stories? Please share your thoughts below.
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Amazing Stories centennial (1926–2026)
