Hugo Gernsback
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"Hugo Gernsback", born "Hugo Gernsbacher", was a Luxembourgian American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugo Award/Hugos".

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Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

Don't drag in television. It is worked to death and there are so many better appliances you can use in your stories.

You have a perfect right to use your imagination as you will in developing the principles, but the fundamental scientific theory must be correct.