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Science fiction stories have been around for centuries, though the term "science fiction" came about in the 1920s. MoskowitzSam Sam Moskowitz describes science fiction as "a branch of fantasy identifiable by the fact that it eases the ëwilling suspension of disbelief' on the part of its readers by utilizing an atmosphere of scientific credibility for its imaginative speculations in physical science, space, time, social science and philosophy."

Science Wonder Stories, June 1929

While AmazingStories Amazing Stories was the first pulp featuring only science fiction stories, the genre had been around for centuries before. Early yarns that fall into the science fiction category were known as romantic stories (that was before the "romantic" came to signify only love stories). Tales such as Homer's The Odyssey were clearly science fiction stories of their day.

Scientific romance stories flourished in the 1800s, such as Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. Scientific romance was represented in the DimeNovels dime novels with stories such as Edward F. Ellis' The Steam Man of the Prairies or the Frank Reade Jr. series.

Early PulpMagazines pulps frequently contained a scientific romance story, such as those by BurroughsEdgarRice Edgar Rice Burroughs and MerrittA A. Merritt. Their popularly was increasing such that in 1926, GernsbackHugo Hugo Gernsback founded AmazingStories Amazing Stories. This magazine published what Gernsback called "scientifiction," but that term never caught on.

After a bankruptcy lawsuit, GernsbackHugo Hugo Gernsback lost control of his magazines, including AmazingStories Amazing Stories. In 1930, he founded ScienceWonderStories Science Wonder Stories in which he coined the term "science fiction."

Science fiction stories continued in the pulps. Sometimes the magazines were dedicated to science fiction; other times, the science fiction story was just one of a variety of categories appearing in the magazine. CaptainFuture Captain Future was one all-science fiction magazine that also fell into the HeroPulpGenre hero pulp genre.