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by JoeDaDude 469 days ago
I'm sure most science fiction fans will know that Hugo Gernsback, mentioned prominently in TFA, is the person the Hugo Award is named after.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award

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And his surname is immortalized in William Gibson’s “The Gernsback Continuum”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum