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Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967)

Autor(a) de Ralph 124C 41+

143+ Works 548 Membros 11 Reviews

About the Author

Séries

Obras de Hugo Gernsback

Ralph 124C 41+ (1911) 188 cópias
Ultimate world (1657) 27 cópias
Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 7 [October 1926] (1926) — Editor — 4 cópias
Wonder Stories, July 1930 (1930) — Editor — 3 cópias
Air Wonder Stories, May 1930 (2014) — Editor — 3 cópias
Air Wonder Stories, December 1929 — Editor — 3 cópias
Amazing Stories Vol. 1, No. 6 [September 1926] (1926) — Editor — 2 cópias
Wonder Stories, June 1930 (2017) 2 cópias
Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1929 (1929) — Editor — 2 cópias
Air Wonder Stories, March 1930 (1930) — Editor — 2 cópias
Wonder Stories, June 1932 — Editor — 2 cópias
Air Wonder Stories, September 1929 — Editor — 2 cópias
Wonder Stories, May 1933 (1933) 2 cópias
Amazing Stories Vol. 3, No. 9 [December 1928] (1928) — Editor — 2 cópias
Amazing Stories Vol. 4, No. 1 [April 1929] (2008) — Editor — 2 cópias
Radio for all, 1 exemplar(es)
Wonder Stories, December 1934 (1934) 1 exemplar(es)
Wonder Stories, January 1933 (1933) 1 exemplar(es)
Wonder Stories, November 1933 (1933) 1 exemplar(es)
Wonder Stories, January 1935 (1935) 1 exemplar(es)
Wonder Stories, July 1935 (1935) — Editor — 1 exemplar(es)
The Killing Flash 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Future Tense (1968) — Contribuinte — 70 cópias
The Fantastic Pulps (1975) — Contribuinte — 70 cópias
The City, 2000 A.D: Urban Life through Science Fiction (1950) — Contribuinte — 63 cópias
Science Fiction Contemporary Mythology (1978) — Contribuinte — 48 cópias
Explorers of the Infinite (1963) — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Gernsbacher, Leo (birth name)
Gashbuck, Greno
Habergock, Gus N.
Banshuck, Dr. Grego
Gernsbacher, Hugo
Data de nascimento
1884-08-16
Data de falecimento
1967-08-19
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Luxembourg (birth)
USA (naturalized)
Local de nascimento
Luxembourg
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Premiações
Science Fiction Hall of Fame (Posthumous Inductee ∙ 1996)
Worldcon Special Convention Awards (1960)
Pequena biografia
Founded Amazing Stories in 1926. The Hugo Awards are named for him.

Membros

Resenhas

Arguably, Hugo Gernsback is more famous than he ought to be. Compared with some speculative fiction writers of the previous generation--such as Edward Bellamy, Samuel Butler, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne--Gernsback is laughably amateurish. So, why do we enshrine his name in Awards and credit him with somehow starting science fiction as a genre? Rereading Ralph124C41+, I have decided it must be because no one else has his gushing, almost religious enthusiasm for technology with scientist-engineers as the new clergy. Consider this early description of Ralph: “His physical superiority, however, was nothing compared to his gigantic mind. He was Ralph 124C 41+, one of the greatest living scientists and one of the ten men on the whole planet earth permitted to use the Plus sign after his name.”
Clunky though his style may be, you can’t beat Gernsback for sheer fecundity. From color television to electric vehicles and beamed power, Ralph creates a new gadget to solve every problem. He is the prototype of what editor John Campbell would call the ideal of the “competent man,” one able to use a rational imagination to face whatever life throws his way.
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Marcado
Tom-e | outras 5 resenhas | Dec 30, 2023 |
My son loved this book, even though it was written nearly a hundred years ago and that shows in the style and vocabulary. Gernsback was totally caught up in the wonders of the year 2660 and that somehow connected. I have a soft spot for visions of the future written in the past, and this one is from 1911, so it is even more fun. It is mostly a travelogue of the future, but there is enough plot to keep it moving.

Be sure to get the edition from the Bison Books Frontiers of Imagination series because it has the cool illustrations. Sigh, that web site is a disaster, but the books are really nice. But if they could reissue the catalog of Sam Moskowitz’s Hyperion Press, I wouldn’t care if they wrote their whole site in PDF.… (mais)
 
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wunder | outras 5 resenhas | Feb 3, 2022 |
A pulpy sci-fi romance. The first half is really just a tour of New York circa 2660 and a chance to show off various sci-fi inventions. Its quite interesting if a little dry at times. The second-half is more devoted to the romance adventure, as Ralph has to deal with two rivals who are in love with his girlfriend. Its surprisingly gripping and with a real sense of danger.
The sci-fi stuff is mostly based on outmoded scientific principals but that didn't bother me. A small complaint, it would have been nice to have more info on the Martians. In addition the world doesn't seem to have advanced socially nearly as much as it has technologically. Overall though really good pulp.… (mais)
 
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wreade1872 | outras 5 resenhas | Nov 28, 2021 |
A somewhat unsatisfactory read at the present time given that this book was written in 1911. Nevertheless, it remains important for historical reasons. The Hugo Award in science fiction is named after the author of this book. The narrative is very basic and bare with hardly any nuance introduced in matters of psychological makeup of characters. Descriptions remain technical as matter-of-fact explanations of how devices, methods or procedures work or are used in what purports to be the world in the year 2660. Certainly, things have changed, yet politically the situation and outlook of international relations don't appear to have radically moved from well-established patterns of the past. Perhaps the most notable innovation is the way that space travel has developed, and galactic would be the adjective to use for world relations. Mars and Martians have become principal characters, the latter exhibiting very Earth-inhabitant features insofar emotions are concerned. In spite of all the technological advances achieved, the plot hinges on an error in communications.… (mais)
 
Marcado
drasvola | outras 5 resenhas | Feb 27, 2016 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
143
Also by
5
Membros
548
Popularidade
#45,524
Avaliação
3.2
Resenhas
11
ISBNs
31
Idiomas
2

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