Hugo Gernsback
American inventor, writer, editor and publisher (1884–1967)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- August 16, 1884
- Died
- August 19, 1967
- Works
- 16
Top works
- The Science Fiction Roll of Honor
- Amazing Stories - Vol. 1 No. 4
- Amazing Stories - Vol. 3 No. 2
- Amazing Stories - Vol. 1 No. 1
- Amazing Stories - Vol. 1 No. 2
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- Listeners
- 16
- Total plays
- 18
Article
Gernsback demonstrating his television goggles in 1963 for Life magazine Gernsback watching a television broadcast by his station WRNY on the cover of his Radio News (Nov 1928)
Hugo Gernsback (/ˈɡɜːrnzbæk/; born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".
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