The Perversity of Things Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction

• Main Author: Gernsback, Hugo (auth)
• Other Authors: Wythoff, Grant (auth, Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Minnesota Press 2016
• Series: Electronic Mediations
• Subjects: Literary essays; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; History of science; Language & Literature; History of Science & Technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 Awar...