Hugo Gernsback

• Jan-1971
• / Thriller
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One was a plan to equip certain cities with huge tanks of chloroform (or similar narcotic gases). Then, when a 10-Ball descended over a house in that city, the special gas was to be diverted into the city's regular gas mains. Citizens about to be kid...

• Dec-2000
• / Science Fiction
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• Jul-2009
• / Science Fiction
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Hugo Gernsback, the publisher of the first American Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, issued at least eighteen 24-page chapbooks between 1929 and 1932, each containing one or two stories. This book collects together 6 of those chapbooks, wit...

• Aug-2009
• / Science Fiction
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By the year 2660, science has transformed and conquered the world, rescuing humanity from itself. Spectacular inventions from the farthest reaches of space and deep beneath the earth are available to meet every need, providing antidotes to individual...

• Feb-2010
• / Science Fiction
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By this time, most people know that "Mohammed Ullyses Fips" was Hugo Gernsback. What fewer people realize is that Hugo Gernsback was also Mohammed Ullyses Fips The intriguing thing about all of the Fips inventions was that there was -- through all o...

• Feb-2010
• / Science Fiction
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It's a spoof..... It's a look into today's tomorrow. In 1944 and 1946 Hugo Gernsback was publishing an electronics magazine that was titled Radio-Craft. You may or may not remember it. During this time, that same Hugo Gernsback send to many friends, ...

• Nov-2010
• / Science Fiction
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The 18th-century German folk hero, Baron Münchausen, is the protagonist in this classic science fiction tale. Braving the depths of space to explore the moon and Mars, the Baron discovers that the Martians make use of a variety of devices such as te...

• Jul-2011
• / Science Fiction
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• Dec-2011
• / General Fiction
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This story was written during the world war, long before the death ray was ever "invented." It is believed in some quarters that here we have the original germ of the death ray. In fact, the means chosen by the author to bring down enemy airplanes by...