Amazing Stories, Vol. 1, No. 4

About this issue

This issue of Amazing Stories features the opening installment of "Station X" by G. McLem, a mystery-suspense story concerning wireless technology. Alan Macrae, a Scottish wireless electrician recently promoted through Marconi's ranks, accepts a mysterious six-month post at an unnamed foreign radio station—forbidden to communicate with the outside world. His fiancée May Treherne meets him at Plymouth Hoe for their final night together before his departure, where he expresses dark premonitions about the position despite the substantial salary it offers. Their romantic conversation touches on courage, intuition, and his Highland sensitivity to approaching danger, presented metaphorically through his memories of mountain storms. The issue also includes an editorial by Hugo Gernsback defending the magazine's emphasis on scientific plausibility in fiction, and a guest essay by G. Peyton Wertenbaker advocating for scientifiction as serious literature combining science with artistic merit, referencing H.G. Wells as a model. An editor's note describes a 1923 radio hypnosis experiment conducted with broadcaster Joseph Dunninger.