Sentence examples for scientifiction from inspiring English sources

This important, badly written book has a good claim to be the first work of what its author, a struggling inventor called Hugo Gernsback, called "scientifiction"United States: Ron Paul in Iowa The candidate's support will erode as he faces the scrutiny afforded to front-runners.

In 1926 Gernsback began publishing Amazing Stories, one of the first magazines devoted exclusively to what he referred to as "scientifiction".

Ettinger's father ran a furniture store, and the family lived in a house on Calvert Street, where, in 1927, when he was eight years old, Ettinger started reading Amazing Stories, the first magazine of what its editor, Hugo Gernsback, called "scientifiction": "Extravagant Fiction Today... Cold Fact Tomorrow".

All this made for some fantastic scientifiction.

Ackerman was born in Los Angeles and his conversion to fandom began when, aged nine, he bought the first issue of Amazing Stories, whose editor Hugo Gernsback, coined the term "scientifiction".

At the age of 18 he discovered the "scientifiction" magazine Amazing Stories, then in its first year of publication.

Later, two high-school friends in Cleveland, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, become avid fans of "scientifiction," the new kind of literature promoted by their favorite pulp magazines.

He started a group called the Boys Scientifiction Clubb; in 1939, he wore an outer-space outfit to a convention for fantasy aficionados, establishing a costuming ritual still followed by the hordes at Comic-Con.