Radium Age
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.
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The Lost World and The Poison Belt
The Lost World and The Poison Belt
ISBN: 9780262545259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 21, 2023
A heart-stopping adventure tale featuring a brilliant scientist—as insufferably pompous as Doyle's most famous character—and his unlikely trio, and its apocalyptic sequel.
The World Set Free
ISBN: 9780262543361
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 3, 2022
In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war “to end all wars” that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia.
Voices from the Radium Age
ISBN: 9780262543378
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 8, 2022
A collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois.
More Voices from the Radium Age
More Voices from the Radium Age
ISBN: 9780262546430
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
An essential collection of proto–science fiction stories that reveals the diverse literary milieu out of which the sci fi genre emerged.
The Lost World and The Poison Belt
The Lost World and The Poison Belt
ISBN: 9780262545259
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 21, 2023
A heart-stopping adventure tale featuring a brilliant scientist—as insufferably pompous as Doyle's most famous character—and his unlikely trio, and its apocalyptic sequel.
The World Set Free
ISBN: 9780262543361
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 3, 2022
In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war “to end all wars” that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia.
Voices from the Radium Age
ISBN: 9780262543378
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 8, 2022
A collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois.
More Voices from the Radium Age
More Voices from the Radium Age
ISBN: 9780262546430
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
An essential collection of proto–science fiction stories that reveals the diverse literary milieu out of which the sci fi genre emerged.