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. For his significant contributions to the scie
Gernsback portrait by Fabian, date unknown
Gernsback watching a television broadcast by his station WRNY on the cover of his Radio News (November 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.
Hugo Award
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The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention and chosen by its members.
Hugo Gernsback
…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". Gernsback emigrated to the U.S. in 1904 and later became a citizen. He was also a significant figure in the electronics and radio industries, even…
Hugo Awards through the years exhibited in Helsinki, 2017
David Hartwell, Charles N. Brown, and Connie Willis pose with the 2008 Hugo Awards.