Hugo Gernsback, Father of Modern Science Fiction
Author: Mark Siegel
Publisher: Millefleurs
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780893702748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Siegel
Publisher: Millefleurs
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780893702748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Siegel
Publisher: Millefleurs
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hugo Gernsback
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2023-12-12
Total Pages: 127
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The eponymous protagonist saves the life of the heroine by directing energy remotely at an approaching avalanche. As the novel goes on, he describes the technological wonders of the modern world, frequently using the phrase "As you know..." The hero finally rescues the heroine by travelling into space on his own "space flyer" to rescue her from the villain's clutches.
Author: Hugo Gernsback
Publisher: Collectors Guide Pub
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780973820355
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1915 the father of modern science fiction contributed to the long list of adventures of the 18th century super-hero, Baron Münchausen. Hugo Gernsback used his magazine Electrical Experimenter as a proving ground for his theory that science fiction could be used to teach science. Never before published as a book, and complete with the original illustrations, this is early 20th century science fiction by the man who made science fiction famous. Hugo Gernsback is often called the father of science-fiction. In 1926 he created the worlds first regular science fiction periodical, Amazing Stories but long before that he tested the market for science fiction within the pages of his science magazines. Between 1912 and 1929 Gernsback was the unchallenged champion of fiction with a scientific edge. In the 1950s the highest award in science fiction was named after him.
Author: Hugo Gernsback
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2016-11-21
Total Pages: 735
ISBN-13: 1452953147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback’s vision of comprehending the future of media through making. In The Perversity of Things, Grant Wythoff makes available texts by Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and the emergence of media studies. Wythoff argues that Gernsback developed a means of describing and assessing the cultural impact of emerging media long before media studies became an academic discipline. From editorials and blueprints to media histories, critical essays, and short fiction, Wythoff has collected a wide range of Gernsback’s writings that have been out of print since their magazine debut in the early 1900s. These articles cover such topics as television; the regulation of wireless/radio; war and technology; speculative futures; media-archaeological curiosities like the dynamophone and hypnobioscope; and more. All together, this collection shows how Gernsback’s publications evolved from an electrical parts catalog to a full-fledged literary genre. The Perversity of Things aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within the history of science fiction criticism. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary, Wythoff reintroduces us to Gernsback and the origins of science fiction.
Author: Hugo Gernsback
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781419658570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An unattributed autobiography discovered among the papers of Hugo Gernsback details his long career as a pioneer of modern electronics, inventor of new devices, forecaster of future technologies, electronics magazine publisher, and science fiction writer.
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Published: 2024-02-02
Total Pages: 5
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Master Mind of Mars" is a science fiction novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs. First published in 1928, it is the sixth book in Burroughs' "Barsoom" series, also known as the John Carter of Mars series. The story is set on the fictional planet Mars (Barsoom) and follows the continuing adventures of John Carter, a Confederate soldier transported to Mars, as he becomes embroiled in the conflicts and mysteries of the Martian civilizations.
Author: Hugo Gernsback
Publisher:
Published: 2008-02-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781434498489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The classic prophetic novel by the father of modern science fiction (and modern radio), Hugo Gernsback.
Author: Gary Westfahl
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2007-08-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0786430796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo Gernsback's career, this critical study explores the many ways in which his work influenced the genre. It summarizes the science fiction theories of Gernsback and his successors, considers his efforts to define science fiction both verbally and visually, and for the first time offers detailed studies of his rarest periodicals, including Technocracy Review, Superworld Comics, and Science-Fiction Plus. An analysis of his ground-breaking novel, Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660, and its influences on a variety of science fiction novels, films and television programs is also offered.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Published: 2023-07-15
Total Pages: 300
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