Hugo Gernsback was a pioneer in the world of science fiction during the first half of the 20th century—so much so that the Hugo Awards are named after him. But Gernback also edited serious tech ...

1884: Hugo Gernsback is born in Luxembourg amid the Victorian era’s embrace of science and technology. He spends his life parlaying his talents as an editor and publisher to produce a body of ...

Hugo Gernsback was by no means a man without enemies—his ceaseless mismanagement of contributors’ money made sure of that. Nor is he wholly free from controversy—a column of his detailing a ...

Hugo Gernsback is widely and affectionately known among U.S. inventors as a bottomless well of incredible notions. For more than 30 years fantasies have come in such profusion from his brain that ...

In 1928 the writer Jack Williamson recounted Gernsback’s view: Science fiction “takes the basis of science . . . and then adds a thing that is alien to science—imagination. It lights the way.” ...

Hugo Gernsback watching a 1.5 inch square television in August 1928. Image from his magazine, Radio News. This seems a little unfair to the author of Ralph 124C 41+, ...

Hugo “Awards” Gernsback was many different things to different people. To his fans, he was a visionary who started some of the most influential (not to mention the first) science fiction ...

Because of this, the World Science Fiction Society's annual award ceremony is referred to as the the Hugo Awards. In 1936, Gernsback invented his television eyeglasses or “teleyeglasses,” a ...

In 1928 the writer Jack Williamson recounted Gernsback’s view: Science fiction “takes the basis of science . . . and then adds a thing that is alien to science—imagination. It lights the way.” ...

Despite Gernsback’s assurances that the Radio Automaton was “not a wild dream” but easily “constructed by any one with means available today,” it didn’t make it out of the pages of his ...