The Perversity of Things
Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientification
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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Image Cover of Science and Invention 9, no. 8 (December 1921)
Pdf Radio News, vol. 8, no. 3, September 1926
Image Title page from Hugo Gernsback's Radio for All (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1922)
Image Cover of Science and Invention 9, no. 12 (April 1922)
Image Cover of Modern Electrics 1, no. 10 (January 1909)
Pdf The Electrical Experimenter, vol. 1, no. 1, May 1913
Pdf Science and Invention, vol. 10, no. 6, October 1922
Image Cover of Radio News 4, no. 8 (February 1923)
Image Cover of The Electrical Experimenter 5, no. 1 (May 1917)
Image Cover of Television News 1, no. 3 (July–August 1931)