More Voices from the Radium Age
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"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...
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"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"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „More Voices from the Radium Age “
Series Foreword viiIntroduction: 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
Autoren-Porträt von Joshua Glenn
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Joshua Glenn
- 2023, XXIII, 218 Seiten, Masse: 13,2 x 20 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Joshua Glenn
- Verlag: The MIT Press
- ISBN-10: 0262546434
- ISBN-13: 9780262546430
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
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