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Hugo Gernsback
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 Sci…
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science · American inventor, writer, editor and publisher (1884–1967) · inventor · editor · writer · novelist · science fiction writer · electrotechnician · publisher · also Hugo Gernsback, Hugo Gernsbacher, Gernsback
Born 16 August 1884 · Died 19 August 1967 · Q312242
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Fast Company: Hugo Gernsback
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2020· 1 entry
Eric Schockmel directed the documentary feature film Tune Into the Future, which explores the life of Hugo Gernsback
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2017· 1 entry
Smithsonian Magazine: Fifty Years Later, Remembering Sci-Fi Pioneer Hugo Gernsback
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2010· 1 entry
Gizmodo: Hugo Gernsback Predicted A Tunnel From New York To France, Through The Earth’s Crust
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2008· 1 entry
Gizmodo: Hugo Gernsback’s RoboCops of 1924
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2002· 1 entry
“, The Collected Stories of Greg Bear”
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (1996).
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Its inaugural class of two deceased and two living persons
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1993· 1 entry
“The Coming Technological Singularity”
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1978· 1 entry
“How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later”
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1970· 1 entry
“The Image of Women in Science Fiction”
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1967· 1 entry
Died 1967-08-19.
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1965· 1 entry
That Gernsback's Amazing Stories published "the kind of stories Gernsback himself used to write: a sort of animated catalogue of gadgets"
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Hugo Award (1960).
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Gernsback received a special Hugo Award as "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction"
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1954· 1 entry
Gernsback was awarded an Officer of Luxembourg's Order of the Oak Crown, an honor equivalent to being knighted
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown (1953).
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1929· 2 entries
Lost ownership of his first magazines after a bankruptcy lawsuit
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In the preface of the first Science Wonder Stories, although instances of "science-fiction" (mostly, but not always, hyphenated) have been found as far back as 1851, and the preface itself makes no mention of it being a
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1928· 1 entry
WRNY aired some of the first television broadcasts
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1926· 1 entry
By founding the first magazine dedicated to it, Amazing Stories
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1925· 1 entry
Founded radio station WRNY, which was broadcast from the 18th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City
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1919· 1 entry
Hugo Gernsback started the Radio News magazine for amateur radio enthusiasts in 1919.
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1913· 1 entry
Founded a similar magazine, The Electrical Experimenter, which became Science and Invention in 1920
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1912· 2 entries
In 1912, Gernsback said that he estimated 400,000 people in the U.S. were involved in amateur radio.
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Gernsback said that he estimated 400,000 people in the U
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Dorothy Kantrowitz in 1921, and Mary Hancher (1914–1985) in 1951
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1884· 3 entries
Born 1884-08-16.
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In Luxembourg City, to Berta (Dürlacher), a housewife, and Moritz Gernsbacher, a winemaker
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Gernsback was born in 1884 in Luxembourg City, to Berta (Dürlacher), a housewife, and Moritz Gernsbacher, a winemaker.
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