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EPISODE · Apr 10, 2026 · 27 MIN

Episode 13: How a Jewish Immigrant Named Hugo Created Sci-Fi

from The Jewish futurism Lab · host Mike Wirth

Before science fiction was a genre, Hugo Gernsback was already building the infrastructure for it: radio magazines, hobbyist communities, wild speculative stories, and the first publication devoted entirely to imagining tomorrow. A Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg, he launched Amazing Stories in 1926 and quietly trained a generation of readers and writers to think in futures, […]

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