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TIL that the Hugo Awards for science fiction are named after author and editor Hugo Gernsback. However, Gernsback's own science fiction novels are widely considered to be of low quality, and vario...
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Original Title: TIL that the Hugo Awards for science fiction are named after author and editor Hugo Gernsback. However, Gernsback's own science fiction novels are widely considered to be of low quality, and various critics have described them as "incompetent", "illiterate", "boring" and "simply dreadful".
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