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...Born in Los Angeles in 1916, Ackerman traced the birth of his vocation to 1926, when he read his first "scientifiction" tale in an early issue of Amazing Stories, the pioneering magazine published by Hugo Gernsback, for whom the Hugo Awards are named. (Ackerman won a 1953 Hugo as No. 1 fan.) Forry was hooked for life, as he would later hook so many others. Three years later the teenager found his stride. He had his first letter published in Science Wonder Quarterly; won a contest in the San Francisco Chronicle with a story about a voyage to Mars...
...known as the media had enthusiastically taken up the science-fiction approach to the future. In 1910 an illustrator named Jean Marc Cote began a series of advertising cards depicting life in the year 2000: underwater croquet tournaments, men being shaved by robots, battery-powered roller skates. Later, Hugo Gernsback, who started out as a manufacturer of automotive batteries, launched the magazine Amazing Stories ("Extravagant Fiction Today--Cold Fact Tomorrow"). It was endlessly imitated. A typical series in Famous Fantastic Mysteries was titled Crimes of the Year 2000. The crimes were not especially novel, but some of the crime-fighting...
...better as prophets have been the science-fiction writers, who usually have limited scholarly credentials but who are abundantly endowed with both nerve and imagination. Almost everybody knows about Jules Verne, who foresaw both submarines and voyages to the moon. Just as prophetic, however, was the late Hugo Gernsback, the first American science-fiction writer (Ralph 124C 41Plus), who predicted, among other things, radar, television, night baseball, rocket planes and communications satellites...
...wants the hockey game and his wife wants Scott, according to Gernsback's plan, he presses a button that centers the hockey on the big screen; meanwhile, Mrs. Telefiend puts on a set of earphones that tune in to Scott. The children have additional ear phones with which to make their own choices. Everybody is happy...
...knobs with a crunching body check. Both Arthur and the Multiplex crash into the wall, breaking through the sheet rock, snapping two studs, and bringing down a piece of the ceiling. Arthur is out cold. The set is out of commission. The big eye is dead. But Hugo Gernsback is already back at the drawing board...