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Hugo Gernsback (August 16th 1884 - August 19th 1967) is a novelist of Science-fiction and man of press states-unien.

He is the creator of the " term; science fiction ".

Biography

Hugo Gernsback was born with Luxembourg the August 16th 1884.

He emigrates in the United States in 1904. First of all, editor of a scientific review of Popularization (Modern Electrics) then of a review for the radio amateurs (Radio operator News), Hugo Gernsback lance in April 1926 the Fanzine Amazing stories of which it must give up the direction in 1929 following the bankruptcy of his company Experimenter Publishing Company.

It is this year that it founds Science wonder stories whose leading article (written by Gernsback) of the first number contains the first hard copy of the term science fiction like three other publications: Air Wonder Stories, Science Wonder Quaterly and Scientific Monthly Detective. The following year the publications Science Wonder stories and Air Wonder Stories are gathered in Wonder Stories.

More than the author of science fiction, it is especially the devotion of Hugo Gernsback to the development of the science fiction which is worth its celebrity to him. It in particular made it possible many authors of science fiction to take their first steps in the Magazine S which it created.

The most prestigious price of the science fiction bears its name, the Prix Hugo. It is le price of the Fandom, fandom whose Gernsback was the instigator in the Années 1930. It will be him even rewarded by special a Hugo Price in 1960 in reward for its work for editor.

But Hugo is also an inventor and a contractor in the field of the transmission without wire. He will be holder of 80 patents at the end of his life in 1967.

Founder of magazine

  • Modern Electrics, (December 1909) magazine of science and technology
  • Radio operator News (1920) (principal prewar magazine bound for the radio amateurs)
  • Amazing Stories (1926)
  • Science Wonder Stories, 12 numbers (1929) (the first number of this magazine would contain the first reference to the word Science-fiction)
  • Air Wonder Stories, 11 numbers (1929)
  • Science Wonder Quaterly, 3 numbers (1929)
  • Scientific Detective Monthly, 16 numbers (1929 )
  • Wonder Stories, 66 numbers (1930)
  • Superworld Comics, 3 numbers (1939)
  • Science Fiction More, 7 numbers (1953)

Works

See too

  • Science fiction
  • Fandom
  • Chapter " science-fiction" in Paralittératures - Daniel Fondanèche, Vuibert, 2005

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