Hugo Gernsback
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| Name: | Hugo Gernsbacher |
| Also Known As: | Hugo Gernsback |
| Occupation: | inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher |
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Hugo Gernsback (August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish–American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher. Most of his publications where pulp magazines. In 1926, Gernsback founded the first magazine entirely dedicated to science fiction, Amazing Stories.
He was also the publisher of Wonder Stories and a cofounder of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society.
The Hugo Award is named after Hugo Gernsback.
In the Beginning . .. There was Eofandom. Back in the primordial slime of the twenties, there existed a small-scale hard science enthusiast named Hugo Gernsback, who was forever trying to make his fortune by publishing and backing Science as the universal panacea for all our ills. He put together a magazine called "AMAZING Stories". As part of his campaign to boost his ideals and magazines (he soon followed "AMAZING" with a few more pulp mags), he started the Science Fiction League and gave us, the world, not only the term Scientifiction but, more importantly, science fiction fandom.[1]
Fanworks
Zines
As Publisher
As Contributor
- "A Message", Ad Astra (genzine) - Issue 1 (1939)
Fan Clubs
As Founder
Archives & Resources
- Hugo Gernsback, Archived version at Fancyclopedia
- Hugo Gernsback on the IMDb
- Wikipedia:Experimenter Publishing
- Wikipedia:Hugo Gernsback
- Hugo Gernsback: The man who invented the future, Archived version (offline, archived url) by Michael A. Banks, October1, 2004.