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The works of Hugo Gernsback By: Roberto Gonzalez

Hugo Gernsback was born in Luxemburg on Agust 16, 1884. He is often called the father of magazine science fiction. He also is an inventor and author. He studied a science in Ecole industry and also a technical carrer in the States and Luxemburg.

In 1908 Gernsback started to publish his first magazine Moden Electrics. In which he gave a chance to science fiction authors to citique other works of science fiction. The term father of magazine sci-fi means that Gernsback put works of sci-fi in his magazine along with the rest of his magazine. He wrote some novels but one of his most popular is Ralph 124C 41+. He also wrote an article in one of his magazines "how to write science fiction." I didn't get a chance to read one of his novels so I don't know of his writing style.

Gernsback had 80 patents by the timed he died. He also had his own radio station and tv broadcast. Gernsback was intrested more in electonics,technology and his magazines so he didn't write many novels. To honor his achievements a sci-fi awrd was named after Hugo Gernsback (the Hugo award).