EAN: 9780262546430

MORE VOICES FROM THE RADIUM AGE - JOSHUA GLENN ...

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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