휴고 건스백

소개

휴고 건스백(Hugo Gernsback, 1884년 8월 16일 - 1967년 8월 19일)은 룩셈부르크 태생의 미국의 소설가, SF작가, 편집자이다. SF분야의 저명한 상인 휴고상은 건스백을 기념하여 붙은 이름이다.

Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. His contributions to the genre as publisher were so significant that, along with the novelists Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honor, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".