Hugo Gernsback
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Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories.
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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)
Gernsback's second novel, Baron Münchausen's Scientific Adventures, was serialized in Amazing in 1928, with the opening installment taking the February cover.
Gernsback's short story "The Cosmatomic Flyer", under the byline "Greno Gashbuck," was cover-featured in the debut issue of Gernsback's Science-Fiction Plus in 1953.
November 1931 issue of Everyday Science and Mechanics
The final issue of Wonder Stories in 1936.Awards 3
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Robert SilverbergAlso won Hugo Award
François CoppéeAlso won Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown
Poul AndersonAlso won Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
A. E. van VogtAlso won Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
Philip José FarmerAlso won Hugo Award
Xia Lian NiAlso won Officer of the Order of the Oak CrownAbout this person
Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. For his significant contributions to the science fiction genre as publisher, he is often referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction", along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells. In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".
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