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Title: The Coming of the Ice

Author: G. Peyton Wertenbaker

Illustrator: Frank Rudolph Paul

Release Date: October 19, 2008 [EBook #26967]

Language: English

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_The COMING of the ICE_

_By G. Peyton Wertenbaker_

[Illustration: Strange men these creatures of the hundredth century ...]

_Copyright, 1926, by E. P. Co., Inc._

Transcriber's Note:

This etext was produced from _Amazing Stories_ July 1961 and was
first published in _Amazing Stories_ June 1926. Extensive research
did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this
publication was renewed. Minor spelling and typographical errors
have been corrected without note.

A Classic Reprint from AMAZING STORIES, June, 1926

Introduction by Sam Moskowitz

_One of the gravest editorial problems faced by the editors of AMAZING
STORIES when they launched its first issue, dated April, 1926, was the
problem of finding or developing authors who could write the type of
story they needed. As a stop-gap, the first two issues of AMAZING
STORIES were devoted entirely to reprints. But reprints were to
constitute a declining portion of the publication's contents for the
following four years. The first new story the magazine bought was
_Coming of the Ice_, by G. Peyton Wertenbaker, which appeared in its
third issue. Wertenbaker was not technically a newcomer to science
fiction, since he had sold his first story to Gernsback's SCIENCE AND
INVENTION, _The Man From the Atom_, in 1923 when he was only 16! Now, at
the ripe old age of 19, he was appearing in the world's first truly
complete science fiction magazine._

_The scope of his imagination was truly impressive and, despite the
author's youth, _Coming of the Ice_ builds to a climax of considerable
power._

_Wertenbaker, under the name of Green Peyton, went on to sell his first
novel, _Black Cabin_, in 1933. He eventually beca