The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientification

Book cover: The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientification
Grant Wythoff
Date: 
November 21, 2016
ISBN: 
978-1-5179-0085-4

The founder of science fiction and his other inventions

Grant Wythoff presents a wide array of texts by famed writer, publisher, and inventor Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and emerging media studies. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary, Wythoff aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within the history of science fiction criticism, reintroducing us to Gernsback and the origins of science fiction.

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