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
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
Don't drag in television. It is worked to death and there are so many better appliances you can use in your stories.
You have a perfect right to use your imagination as you will in developing the principles, but the fundamental scientific theory must be correct.
Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.
I started the movement of SF in America in 1908 through my first magazine, 'MODERN ELECTRICS.' At that time it was an experiment. Science fiction authors were scarce. There were not a dozen worth mentioning in the entire world
By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision
Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.