I bought my first issue of Analog in the summer of 1968. I still have it along with hundreds of others dating back as far as 1931. Every year when we visit the local SF convention (www.con-version.org) I pick up a few more of the really old ones. Science fiction began as a genre when Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell Jr. came up with the phrase in the first place. Hugo (after whom the prestigious Hugo award is named) wanted to call it 'scientifiction.' John thought this too much of a tongue twister and suggested 'science fiction.' Thus the new genre had a name and with the new pulp magazines, a home.
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