Under the direction of Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935. In these forgotten classics, science fiction readers will discover the origins of enduring tropes like robots (berserk or benevolent), tyrannical supermen, dystopian wastelands, sinister telepaths, and eco-catastrophes. With new contributions by historians, science journalists, and science fiction authors, the Radium Age book series will recontextualize the breakthroughs and biases of these proto–science fiction classics, and chart the emergence of a burgeoning genre.

Series editor: Joshua Glenn

Man's World

Charlotte Haldane, Philippa Levine

The Inhumans and Other Stories

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay

The Night Land

William Hope Hodgson, Erik Davis

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

G.K. Chesterton, Madeline Ashby

More Voices from the Radium Age

Joshua Glenn, Joshua Glenn

The Lost World and The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle, Conor Reid, Joshua Glenn

Theodore Savage

Cicely Hamilton, Susan R. Grayzel

What Not

Rose Macaulay, Matthew De Abaitua

Nordenholt's Million

J. J. Connington, Matthew Battles, Evan Hepler-Smith

Of One Blood

Pauline Hopkins, Minister Faust

The World Set Free

H. G. Wells, Sarah Cole, Joshua Glenn

The Clockwork Man

E. V. Odle, Annalee Newitz

A World of Women

J. D. Beresford, Astra Taylor

Voices from the Radium Age

Joshua Glenn, Joshua Glenn