The Gernsback Days - A study of the evolution of modern science fiction from 1911 to 1936

Mike Ashley, Robert A. W. Lowndes

Wildside Press

2004

500 páginas

16h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780809510559

Hugo Gernsback was inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publishing the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that one of the most prized Science Fiction awards are named the "Hugos".
The book is a study of the contribution Hugo Gernsback made to the development of science fiction. A investigation of his era and the facts surrounding the origins of Amazing Stories - why he had launched the magazine, what he was trying to achieve, and what effects he had, good and bad.