Amazing Stories Quarterly, Spring 1928

This issue of Amazing Stories Quarterly features "A Modern Atlantis," a science fiction novella by Frederick Arthur Tibdge set in the early 1930s. The story opens with a prologue recounting World War I experiences of two men reunited at Harvard Club: Bob Holden, an aeronauticist, and Jerry Scott, a soldier-artist. Scott relates a romantic wartime encounter involving Jack Rutherford, a wounded American doughboy, and Kathleen Riley, an Irish nurse of mixed European heritage who saved Rutherford's life during the Argonne offensive in 1918. The couple married in Paris but were later separated. Now Rutherford has abandoned her, claiming amnesia from shell shock. The narrative then shifts to the 1930s action proper, beginning with a large aircraft appearing at sunset. The story is grounded in actual scientific innovations: inventor Edward R. Armstrong's isleport designs (shown in photographs) and theoretical "deadly rays" later discussed in Radio News Magazine.