Gernsback

Modern sf usually traces its origins to 1926, when Hugo Gernsback founded “Amazing Stories.”

And it was a Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg, Hugo Gernsback, who started the first “scientific fiction” magazines in the 1920s and coined the term “science fiction.”

A few pages later you can read Hugo Gernsback’s actual article announcing the formation of the Science Fiction League.

He had convinced his father that Hugo Gernsback’s magazine Science Wonder Stories contained serious stuff, despite the covers’ motley depictions of space ships and aliens.

Named for Amazing Stories editor Hugo Gernsback and awarded since 1953, the awards are one of speculative fiction’s biggest prizes.