"Birth of a Notion" is a science fiction short story by American writer

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. The story was written to celebrate the

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(fiftieth anniversary) of the magazine '' Amazing Stories'' in June 1976.June 1976 ''Amazing''
at ISFDb It appeared in the 1976 collection '' The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories''.

Plot summary

Simeon Weill, a physicist, experiments with time travel and travels back to New York City in 1925, where he meets Hugo Gernsback, a science fiction author and Weill's hero. Although only given a few minutes sitting with Gernsback on a park bench, he manages to convey to the author some of the scientific developments to come in the next fifty years. Just before being transported back to 1976, he suggests that Gernsback's proposed science fiction magazine be titled ''Amazing Stories''.

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* Short stories by Isaac Asimov 1976 short stories Short fiction about time travel Works originally published in Amazing Stories Fiction set in 1925 {{1970s-sf-story-stub