Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, No. 9

About this issue

This December issue features Jules Verne's serial "Robur the Conqueror, or The Clipper of the Air" (Part I), chronicling an inventor's experiments with an airship and the capture of two military officers, intended to convert them to "lighter-than-air" advocacy through daring aerial exploits. H.G. Wells's "The Country of the Blind" is included, alongside Henry Hank Simmons's technical tale "Hicks' Inventions with a Kick" (concerning an "Electro-Hydraulic Bank Protector"), J. Rodman's "The Undersea Express," Charles H. [surname unclear]'s "Crystals of Growth," Miles J. Breuer's "The Riot at Sanderac," and George Paul Bauer's "Below the Infra Red," which depicts scientists using apparatus to extend perception into infrared wavelengths and enlarge the body for entry into giant plants. The issue emphasizes scientifiction—fiction grounded in extrapolative science and technical feasibility.