Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science Fiction
- ISBN-10
- 0786430796
- ISBN-13
- 9780786430796
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 283
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-07-18
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Author
- Gary Westfahl
Description
"An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo Gernsback's career, summarizing the science fiction theories of Gernsback and his successors, and for the first time offers detailed studies of his rarest periodicals. An analysis of his ground-bre
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