Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Hugo Gernsback

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Last updated on October 6, 2024.

Hugo Gernsback 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—although not as a writer—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 honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".

American - Novelist | August 16, 1884 - August 19, 1967

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What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Hugo Gernsback

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.

Hugo Gernsback

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

Hugo Gernsback

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Hugo Gernsback

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

Hugo Gernsback

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Hugo Gernsback

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