Talk:Hugo Gernsback

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Re: Ralph 124C 41 actually meant "One to foresee." More info on Hugo is available at [1]

If you read it aloud, that's One To Fore-See For One! --Orange Mike 03:57, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Radio Craft

This magazine was very influential in the 1930s. Someone knowledgable about it needs to add information about it to the article. Rlquall 13:08, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Hugo Awards

why isn't there any reference to the famous Hugo Award that was named to honor him?--212.144.125.210 19:07, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

There is, and has been for some time. I have put a brief reference to it in the lead paragraph, though. --Orange Mike 22:30, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

sydney

You know, in other places I have seen references to "Hugo and Sydney" Gernsback, describing "their" publishing empire. Siblings? Spouses? What's the story here? --Lquilter (talk) 15:36, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Radar?

probably some mention should be made of the fact that gernsback was the first man to provide a theoretical description of radar................ -Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.206.70 (talk) 02:30, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Science and Mechanics

According to http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/technical/sciencemechanics/ Science and Mechanics / Everyday Science and Mechanics

One of Hugo Gernsback's "return" titles, created after his forced bankruptcy, it was first published in 1929 as EVERYDAY MECHANICS. The name was changed to EVERYDAY SCIENCE AND MECHANICS in 1931. The magazine was sold to Virgil Angerman, and the name shortened to SCIENCE AND MECHANICS, in early 1937. The magazine was sold to Curtis Publishing in 1954, and by them to Davis Publications in 1959. It survived into the 1980's as a quarterly and bi-monthly, with its last issue coming out in 1984. -Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.232.94.33 (talk) 11:32, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

Other References ??

Is it worth mentioning references to him by other authors ??
William Gibson wrote the Gernsback Continuum, as reference to him - for instance.

90.206.65.108 (talk) 00:00, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Every major figure in SF has this kind of shout-out in later writers' fiction: spaceships named Robert Heinlein, that sort of thing. Anything not real-world (i.e., a lunar crater named after him) is probably too trivial to mention. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:21, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Television enthusiast

There need to be few lines on his visionary promotion of early television. See for example "The Last Lone Inventor" by Evan Schwartz which details the effects of Gernsback's radio and television technical magazines on Philo T. Farnsworth and his development of electronic television. -Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Argon (talk o contribs) 17:00, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Sex rears its ugly head

What about Gernsback's interest in "electro-ejaculation"? This is not a joke. I remember reading about it many years ago. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 15:57, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Started Science Fiction

This article says he 'Started modern science fiction'. What does that mean? What's "modern" science fiction, and why is it distinct from people like Wells, Verne and Shelly who were previously doing science fiction? Even the term 'science fiction' appears to be in previous use to Gernsback? Why does starting a magazine mean you started the genre, and novels written in the genre that predate the magazine don't count as science fiction, or don't count as 'modern' science fiction?

I can't see any solid ground for this claim? Science fiction existed before Gernsback started his magazine. Metacosm (talk) 10:44, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Gernsback was the first to create a magazine which explicitly identified science fiction or "scientifiction" as a genre distinct from other genres of popular fiction. Even his competitors and deprecators conceded that he had articulated the existence of a sub-set of literature with (roughly) identifiable boundaries, and identified prior works which fell into that genre. The closest thing to that concept previously was the somewhat inchoate concept of "scientific romance"; Gernsback crystallized the saturated solution, and identified the resulting thing with a name. After Gernsback, whether you loved SF or hated it or despised what you mistakenly thought it was, you were talking about something specific as a genre. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:44, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps changing it to 'defined the genre of modern science fiction' would be more accurate? Undisputedloser (talk) 21:19, 14 June 2013 (UTC)