Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback, born Hugo Gernsbacher, was a Luxembourgish-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honour, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 August 1884
CountryUnited States of America
Hugo Gernsback quotes about
You have a perfect right to use your imagination as you will in developing the principles, but the fundamental scientific theory must be correct.