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The term science fiction was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre's principal advocates, the American publisher Hugo Gernsback. The Hugo Awards, given annually since 1953 by the World Science Fiction Society, are named after him.

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Answer 2

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Science fiction was oringinally called "Scientifiction", it was a play on words invented by Hugo Gernsback. It was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, a famous poet and writer as well as Verne and Wells. "...unlike other contenders, it’s fiction; it’s about the possibilities of a science; and it’s a novel, a marvellous adventure" says Johannes Valentinus Andreae, the believed to be first science-fiction writer. Science fiction grew in popularity when author's like J.R.R. Tolkien or Suzanne Collins, began writing the Hobbit or The Hunger Games. Hugo Gernsback described Science Fiction as "a marriage between futuristic themes, science, adventure, and relationships". People soon started to read more and more "Sci-fi" and were compelled by the various elements.

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