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Voices from the Radium Age by Joshua Glenn (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262543370
ISBN-139780262543378
eBay Product ID (ePID)16050060924
Product Key Features
Book TitleVoices from the Radium Age
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year2022
GenreFiction
AuthorJoshua Glenn
Book SeriesMIT Press / Radium Age Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight7.5 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-010590
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"For early SF buffs, this will be a substantial delight."-- Publishers Weekly "Even if you're just looking for old-school adventure mixed with still trenchant social allegory this is a lineup full of winners. The rest of the series promises to be a just as big a treat and, with cover designs by Guelph artist Seth, they're nice to look at too."--Alex Good, The Toronto Star "These stories fizz and pop with something much better than believable possibilities. They remind us of how joyful the future once seemed."--Scott Bradfield, The LA Times
Dewey Decimal808.83/8762
Table Of ContentSeries Foreword vii Introduction xiii Joshua Glenn Sultana's Dream (1905) 1 Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain The Voice in the Night (1907) 17 William Hope Hodgson The Machine Stops (1909) 35 E. M. Forster The Horror of the Heights (1913) 81 Arthur Conan Doyle The Red One (1918) 105 Jack London The Comet (1920) 141 W. E. B. Du Bois The Jameson Satellite (1931) 161 Neil R. Jones
SynopsisA collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century features work by the famous (Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes), the no-longer famous ("weird fiction" pioneer William Hope Hodgson), and the should-be-more famous (Bengali feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain). It offers stories by writers known for concerns other than science fiction (W. E. B. Du Bois, author of The Souls of Black Folk ) and by writers known only for pulp science fiction (the prolific Neil R. Jones). These stories represent what volume and series editor Joshua Glenn has dubbed "the Radium Age"-the period when science fiction as we know it emerged as a genre. The collection shows that nascent science fiction from this era was prescient, provocative, and well written. Readers will discover, among other delights, a feminist utopia predating Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland by a decade in Hossain's story, "Sultana's Dream"; a world in which the human population has retreated underground, in E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"; an early entry in the Afrofuturist subgenre in Du Bois's last-man-on-Earth tale, "The Comet"; and the first appearance of Jones's cryopreserved Professor Jameson, who despairs at Earth's wreckage but perseveres-in a metal body-to appear in thirty-odd more stories., A collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois. This collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century features work by the famous (Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes), the no-longer famous ("weird fiction" pioneer William Hope Hodgson), and the should-be-more famous (Bengali feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain). It offers stories by writers known for concerns other than science fiction (W. E. B. Du Bois, author of The Souls of Black Folk ) and by writers known only for pulp science fiction (the prolific Neil R. Jones). These stories represent what volume and series editor Joshua Glenn has dubbed "the Radium Age"--the period when science fiction as we know it emerged as a genre. The collection shows that nascent science fiction from this era was prescient, provocative, and well written. Readers will discover, among other delights, a feminist utopia predating Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland by a decade in Hossain's story, "Sultana's Dream"; a world in which the human population has retreated underground, in E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops"; an early entry in the Afrofuturist subgenre in Du Bois's last-man-on-Earth tale, "The Comet"; and the first appearance of Jones's cryopreserved Professor Jameson, who despairs at Earth's wreckage but perseveres--in a metal body--to appear in thirty-odd more stories.
LC Classification NumberPN6071.S33V58 2022
