Gernsback

But the reason that the name Hugo Gernsback is considered so important to science fiction fans is that he was central to the promotion of science fiction in the early part of the 20th century and in many ways a founding father of sci-fi fandom, publishing the addresses of people who wrote letters to his magazines.

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Hugo Gernsback is a pioneer of the genre and his connection with it begins in 1911 when he published Ralph 124C41+: A Romance of the Year 2660 in his own magazine Modern Electrics.

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One could argue that a genre needs, to some extent, to be defined in retrospect; otherwise Wells and Verne aren't science fiction because they predate Gernsback, which is a defensible position for certain narrow meanings of "SF" but not for the common one.

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Another fav is Tom Godwin's "The Survivors" (novelized as Space Prison) in which a band of humans must survive a very nasty planet to regain their freedom and get revenge on the aliens (called Gerns -- from 'Gernsback', no doubt).

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The Hugos and Nebulas and guest-of-honor invitations followed, and, many years later, the Grand Master award -- and simply on the financial level I did a lot better than I would if I had, Gernsback forbid, spent my whole life writing potboilers.

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In the event, we purvey a broader definition of sf than what is traditionally published in the sf magazines, but that has some history going back to even before Gernsback and the invention of sf as a separate genre.

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No, from the fandom of the written form that goes back to the lettercolum of Amazing Stories in 1926, and the correspondences that started, which led to the first sf fan clubs, and the first fanzine in 1930, and also the subsequent founding by Gernsback of the "Science Fiction League" in 1934.

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The manuscript was found while I was in the process of closing down Gernsback Publications Inc. in 2003.

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The Hugos and Nebulas and guest-of-honor invitations followed, and, many years later, the Grand Master award -- and simply on the financial level I did a lot better than I would if I had, Gernsback forbid, spent my whole life writing potboilers.

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I hope to change that balance a bit in 2010, especially as my classics reading period creeps slowly towards the post-Hugo Gernsback years (starting in 1926) when sf as its own genre really took off.

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