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Happy Birthday, Science Fiction!

For the many fans of science fiction, April 2026 is a month long marked on the calendar. A hundred years ago, in fact, the word science was used for the first time to designate this genre of stories. Conceived by Hugo Gernsback, a Jew born in Luxembourg in 1884, appeared in the magazine he founded in the United States in 1926, Amazing Stories: the Magazine of Science. In the next ten years, the term was simplified, crystallizing in the form —alr…
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For the many fans of science fiction, April 2026 is a month long marked on the calendar. A hundred years ago, in fact, the word science was used for the first time to designate this genre of stories. Conceived by Hugo Gernsback, a Jew born in Luxembourg in 1884, appeared in the magazine he founded in the United States in 1926, Amazing Stories: the Magazine of Science. In the next ten years, the term was simplified, crystallizing in the form —alr…

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La Civiltà Cattolica broke the news in on Friday, March 27, 2026.
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