More voices from the radium age / edited and introduced by Joshua Glenn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glenn, Joshua, 1967- editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

MIT Press / Radium Age Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--20th century.

Science fiction.

Genre:

Fiction

Short stories

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

Summary:

"More Voices of the Radium Age will showcase proto- and early sf stories by much-admired authors best known today for their non-sf work (E. Nesbit, author of Three Children and It and other popular children's fantasies, and Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Magnificent Ambersons); authors whose outsized success with readers would influence the subsequent development of the sf genre (H.G. Wells, who continued to make startling predictions in the early 20th century, and Abraham Merritt and George Allan England, who along with Edgar Rice Burroughs ushered in the crucial era of the pulp scientific romance); as well as writers who have now fallen into obscurity (George C. Wallis, the Russian Symbolist litterateur Valery Bryusov, "weird" horror master Algernon Blackwood, and Francis Stevens, "the woman who invented dark fantasy"). Note that Nesbit and Stevens are two of sf's only female writers pre-1926"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Contents

Series Foreword

Introduction: Radium Age Ultra-Potentialities

The Last Days of Earth (1901)

The Land Ironclads (1903)

The Republic of the Southern Cross (1907)

The Third Drug (1908)

A Victim of Higher Space (1914)

The People of the Pit (1918)

The Thing from-'Outside' (1923)

The Finding of the Absolute (1923)

The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis (1926).

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-37607-5

0-262-37608-3

OCLC:

1347265819