Amazing Stories V07n08 (Nov 1932)
Teck Publications
Amazing Stories volume 7, number 8 (November 1932). Missing inside front cover, back cover and inside back cover. Contains "Captain Brink of the Space Marines": currently the oldest known use of the phrase "space marine". Have been looking for this issue since 2013, when Amazon removed relatively unknown author M.C.A. Hogarth's book "Spots the Space Marine" at the request of Games Workshop, on the pretext that it infringed on their trademark of the term, despite being entirely unrelated. This story shows the term predates them by more than 50 years, and makes the point that their aggressive policies are an attack on the genre that they are part of, and themselves drew on and copied from. Have been looking for a copy to be able to transcribe it on Wikisource (via conversion to Djvu here) since then, to re-enforce that point. In the meantime, Hogarth's book was restored on Amazon, Games Workshop stopped using their Twitter account (@voxcaster) following a social media backlash, and more recently Hogarth became Vice President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America... so now aiming to make it an e-text in time for the 3rd anniversary of all this happening.
- Series
- Amazing Stories
- Genres
- Science fiction, Science and mechanics
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Amazing Stories
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Internet Archive