More Voices from the Radium Age (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Glenn, Joshua

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An essential collection of proto-science fiction stories that reveals the diverse literary milieu out of which the sci fi genre emerged. A planetary escape pod, an alien body-snatcher, an underground Alaskan city, and a war between the sexes in Atlantis! These are just a few of the outré elements you'll find in More Voices from the Radium Age, a showcase of proto-science fiction edited and introduced by Joshua Glenn. This volume brings together well-known and lesser-known writers in an inclusive collection that features E. Nesbit and May Sinclair, two of the genre's first female writers. More Voices from the Radium Age also introduces readers to writers who have fallen into obscurity, including proto-sf pioneer George C. Wallis, the Russian Symbolist Valery Bryusov, and "weird" horror master Algernon Blackwood. It also includes H.G. Wells, who continued to make startling predictions in the early 20th century, and Abraham Merritt and George Allan England, two of the biggest names in the era of the pulp scientific romance. An essential collection for any sci fi fan, More Voices from the Radium Age is a wild and darkly cathartic ride through the anxieties, fantasies, and nightmares that ultimately shaped the genre we now know as science fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262376082
• Artikelnr.: 66300981

Autorenporträt

Joshua Glenn is a consulting semiotician and editor of the websites HiLobrow and Semiovox. The first to describe 1900–1935 as science fiction’s “Radium Age,” he is editor of the MIT Press’s series of reissued proto-sf stories from that period. He is coauthor and coeditor of various books including the family activities guide Unbored (2012), The Adventurer’s Glossary (2021), and Lost Objects (2022). In the 1990s, he published the indie intellectual journal Hermenaut.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword vii
Introduction: Radium Age Ultra-Potentialities xiii
Joshua Glenn
The Last Days of Earth (1901) 1
George C. Wallis
The Land Ironclads (1903) 19
H.G. Wells
The Republic of the Southern Cross (1907) 51
Valery Bryusov
The Third Drug (1908) 79
E. Nesbit
A Victim of Higher Space (1914) 103
Algernon Blackwood
The People of the Pit (1918) 131
A. Merritt
The Thing from -- 'Outside' (1923) 155
George Allan England
The Finding of the Absolute (1923) 183
May Sinclair
The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis (1926) 207
Booth Tarkington