The William Gibson short story "The Gernsback Continuum" is a reference to Gernsback. Gibson is probably on a lst of important SF authors.

Here's a (probably pirate?) link: http://lib.ru/GIBSON/r_contin.txt

EDIT: see also the Hugo Awards, which could probably do a better job of publicizing the sorce of their name.

PPS: congrats cstross for best novella! I hadn't noticed that.