Amazing Stories turns 100 years old tomorrow. Hit NYC newsstands March 10, 1926.

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https://amazingstories.com/2025/10/the-countdown-to-sf100-has-begun/

Whether you know it or not (and you shortly will if you don’t), there is a significant milestone for the Science Fiction community that is fast approaching!

Based upon the very best historical research (and not a little bit of argumentation) , a bit over 150 days from now will mark the 100th year – to the day – that Amazing Stories was first distributed to newsstands in New York City and throughout the rest of the continental US (and probably some points in Canada as well).

March 10th, 2026, probably at some early morning hour before the vast majority of you are even thinking about waking up, will mark a full century – 100 years – since that neon yellow, over-sized and heftier than expected (Gernsback printed the magazine on custom-ordered paper designed to give the magazine greater weight and thickness) first issue of Amazing Stories was cut free from its twiney confinements and placed upon the display racks, ushering in an era of awe, wonder and imagination.

By our estimation, it will also marks 100 years since the official founding of the Science Fiction genre, given it’s very first formal definition just inside that lovingly crafted Frank R. Paul cover:
https://amazingstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/amazing-stories-cover.webp

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1. Issue one

[Bayard]

2. A Who's Who of authors

Is there any place to read those stories now?

[blm]

3. My house. 🤓

I actually have the first 4 issues. I gifted them to Mr. blm 8 years ago.

You can easily find republished books online.

[Pinback]

4. Fantastic!

No, wait, that was a few years later…


Seriously, that’s quite a momentous anniversary. SF has sure come a long way in that century!

[Xavier Breath]

5. At least they got the lions right.

Most bible-themed depictions feature two lions with manes