About the Author

Hugo Gernsback was a magazine editor, a writer, an electronics entrepreneur, a radio and television enthusiast, and a founding father of the science fiction genre and a cultivator of its community.He founded "Amazing Stories "magazine in 1926 and coined the term science fiction. The Science Fiction Achievement awards given to authors of exemplary works each year are named Hugos in his honor. Robert Godwin is the space curator at the Canadian Air and Space Museum and an advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation. He works closely with the National Space Society, the Mars Society, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the X-Prize Foundation. He is the author of "Apollo 11," "The Illustrated Collector s Guide to Led Zeppelin," and "The Lunar Exploration Scrapbook." He lives in Burlington, Ontario."