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Hugo Gernsback

Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourger-American author and publisher (d. 1967)

Hugo Gernsback was an 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".

16 August 1884

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