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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...
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Radium Age book series
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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"-- 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. -- |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 218 pages ; 20 cm. |
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9780262546430 0262546434 |
| Index Number: | PN6071 |
| CLC: | I14 |
| Call Number: | I14/M836 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Radium Age Ultra-Potentialities / Joshua Glenn -- The Last Days of Earth (1901) / George C. Wallis -- The Land Ironclads (1903) / H.G. Wells -- The Republic of the Southern Cross (1907) / Valery Bryusov -- The Third Drug (1908) / E. Nesbit -- A Victim of Higher Space (1914) / Algernon Blackwood -- The People of the Pit (1918) / A. Merritt -- The Thing from-'Outside' (1923) / George Allan England -- The Finding of the Absolute (1923) / May Sinclair -- The Veiled Feminists of Atlantis (1926) / Booth Tarkington |