This copy was autographed by Hugo Gernsback in 1965. Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing.

Gernsback's initial editorial approach was to blend instruction with entertainment ; he believed science fiction could educate readers.

First appearing in the September 1927 edition of Hugo Gernsback's science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, " The Colour Out of Space " became one of Lovecraft's most popular works and remained his personal favorite short story.

Completed by the end of March, " The Colour Out of Space " was first published in Hugo Gernsback's science fiction magazine Amazing Stories in September 1927.

Science fiction fandom started through the letter column of Hugo Gernsback's fiction magazines.

The editors under Gernsback's ownership were David Lasser, who worked hard to improve the quality of the fiction, and, from mid-1933, Charles Hornig.

Gernsback's second ( and final ) novel, written c. 1958, was not published until 1971.

Sloane was involved with Amazing Stories from the very beginning, serving as Hugo Gernsback's managing editor.

The first description, in 1923, of a bone conduction hearing aid was Hugo Gernsback's " Osophone ", which he later elaborated on with his " Phonosone ".

While the novel was not translated into English until 1971, Everett F. Bleiler notes that it likely influenced American genre sf via Hugo Gernsback: " Hugo Gernsback would have been saturated in Lasswitz's work, and Gernsback's theoretical position of technologically based liberalism and many of his little scientific crotchets resemble ideas in Lasswitz's work.

" Gernsback's venality and corruption, his sleaziness and his utter disregard for the financial rights of authors, have been so well documented and discussed in critical and fan literature.

In New York City, David Lasser, Gernsback's managing editor, nurtured the birth of a small local club called the Scienceers, which held its first meeting in a Harlem apartment on December 11, 1929.

His audience rapidly showed a preference for implausible adventures, however, and the movement away from Gernsback's idealism accelerated when the magazine changed hands in 1929.

Thus, we have no part, and want none, in current discussions of the relative importance of science, the social studies, the humanities, the creative arts.

The propositional satisfiability problem ( PSAT ), which decides whether a given propositional formula is satisfiable, is of central importance in various areas of computer science, including theoretical computer science, algorithmics, artificial intelligence, hardware design, electronic design automation, and verification.

Some within the cognitive science community, however, consider these to be vital topics, and advocate the importance of investigating them.

On November 29, 1921, the trustees declared it to be the express policy of the Institute to pursue scientific research of the greatest importance and at the same time " to continue to conduct thorough courses in engineering and pure science, basing the work of these courses on exceptionally strong instruction in the fundamental sciences of mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; broadening and enriching the curriculum by a liberal amount of instruction in such subjects as English, history, and economics ; and vitalizing all the work of the Institute by the infusion in generous measure of the spirit of research.

It seeks to improve the compilation, critical evaluation, storage, and retrieval of data of importance to science and technology.

The question of what can and cannot be legitimately called science is of major importance in this debate because the First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits teaching of religion in public schools.

Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, at least three of which were of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science.

* Identify and address major issues of importance to science and society.

The importance of non-native English language skills can be recognised behind the long-standing joke that the international language of science and technology is broken English.

While many Marxist concepts are still of importance for modern social science, some specific predictions Marx made have been shown to be unlikely.

Many mathematicians feel that to call their area a science is to downplay the importance of its aesthetic side, and its history in the traditional seven liberal arts ; others feel that to ignore its connection to the sciences is to turn a blind eye to the fact that the interface between mathematics and its applications in science and engineering has driven much development in mathematics.

While psychophysiology was a discipline off the mainstream of psychological and medical science prior to roughly the 1960 and 1970s, more recently, psychophysiology has found itself positioned at the intersection of psychological and medical science, and its popularity and importance have expanded commensurately with the realization of the inter-relatedness of mind and body.

Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, at least three of which were of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science.

The concept is of fundamental importance in laser science because the production of a population inversion is a necessary step in the workings of a standard laser.

Within the framework of his science fiction stories, Heinlein repeatedly addressed certain social themes: the importance of individual liberty and self-reliance, the obligation individuals owe to their societies, the influence of organized religion on culture and government, and the tendency of society to repress nonconformist thought.

Also, he co-authored with Carl Djerassi a play called " Oxygen " about the discovery of oxygen, but also about what it means to be a scientist and the importance of process of discovery in science.

The theory of finite semigroups has been of particular importance in theoretical computer science since the 1950s because of the natural link between finite semigroups and finite automata

The problem of induction is one of considerable debate and importance in the philosophy of science: is induction indeed justified, and if so, how?

For this reason the Continental tradition has remained much more skeptical of the importance of science in human life and philosophical inquiry.

Fossil collecting was in vogue in the late 18th and early 19th century, at first as a pastime, but gradually transforming into a science as the importance of fossils to geology and biology was understood.

Of no less importance are the contributions of Beza to Biblical science.

Much of this debate relates to the importance of distinguishing history and fiction within biblical texts, as Berlin argues, in order to gain a more accurate understanding of the history of the Israelite people.

His sentimental novel Julie, or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction.

In the following works of fiction, the Martian setting is of secondary importance to the work as a whole.

In his essay The Art of Fiction, and in prefaces to each volume of The New York Edition, James explained his views of the art of fiction, emphasising the importance to him of realist portrayals of character as seen through the eyes and thoughts of an embodied narrator.

Lahiri has also had a distinguished relationship with The New Yorker magazine in which she has published a number of her short stories, mostly fiction, and a few non-fiction including The Long Way Home ; Cooking Lessons, a story about the importance of food in Lahiri's relationship with her mother.

Anthony Storr has commented that the volume of sadomasochist pornography shows that sadomasochistic interest is widespread in Western society ; John Kucich has noted the importance of masochism in late-19th century British colonial fiction.

The importance of conveying sensation in fiction is widely accepted.

" The importance, Kirsch claimed, sprung from " a revolution in taste, a return to qualities in fiction which all but submerged in the 20th-century vogue of realism and naturalism " and the importance was such that they were " comparable ... only to the phenomenon of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories ".

As Brantlinger has noted of the novel's importance to the development of the " secondary world " in fantasy literature, " Haggard may seem peripheral to the development of science fiction, and yet his African quest romances could easily be transposed to other planets and galaxies ".

Perhaps ranking just behind McBain in importance to the development of the procedural as a distinct mystery sub-genre is John Creasey, a prolific writer of many different kinds of crime fiction, from espionage to criminal protagonist.

Nevertheless, recent scholarship has highlighted Manning's importance as a woman writer of war fiction and of the British Empire in decline.

Its real importance lies in the fresh perspective it provides through Gavin Stevens, an educated and worldly man of the 20th century who would eventually become a key figure in Faulkner's later fiction.

A major distinctive feature of the game is the importance of the storyline: new fiction pieces advancing the story of Rokugan are published on a weekly basis, in addition to being released with every expansion, and in a quarterly publication, the Imperial Herald.

As a short-fiction writer, his art gives importance to minute details and exemplifies the manifest skill and compact craft that writing short fiction demands.

Moreover, the novel resists many conventions of fiction, such as the omniscient narrator ( Fowles ' narrator seems omniscient but divulges little of importance ) and the drive for climax and resolution.

Its multilayered character has given rise to interpretations as diverse as science fiction, fantasy, satire or parody, depending on how much importance scholars attach to Lucian's explicit intention of telling a story of falsehoods.

The film brings together all the elements that characterize Sokurov ’ s films: long takes, elaborate filming and image processing methods, a mix of documentary and fiction, the importance of the landscape and the sense of a filmmaker who brings transcendence to everyday gestures.