On This Day August 16

Luxembourgish-American writer, editor, and magazine publisher Hugo Gernsback was born on August 16, 1884. He provided a forum for the modern genre of science fiction in 1926 by founding the first magazine dedicated to it, Amazing Stories. Although Greenback was the first in modern times to use the term "science fiction", he preferred to call it “scientifiction.” The annual awards at the World Science Fiction Convention are called the “Hugos” after Hugo Gernsback,

February 1928 cover of Amazing Stories

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