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 Night Land, abridged edition

The Night Land

by William Hope Hodgson

Introduction by Erik Davis

ISBN: 9780262546423

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 15, 2023

A romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension—but love leads on.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

by G.K. Chesterton

Introduction by Madeline Ashby

ISBN: 9780262546416

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 1, 2023

A satire set in a future England, in which a neomedievalist contest among London neighborhoods takes a disastrous turn.

More Voices from the Radium Age

Edited by Joshua Glenn

Introduction by Joshua Glenn

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

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Introduction by Conor Reid

Afterword by Joshua Glenn

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.

Theodore Savage

by Cicely Hamilton

Introduction by Susan R. Grayzel

ISBN: 9780262545228

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 7, 2023

From one of the earliest feminist science fiction writers, a novel that envisions the fall of civilization—and the plight of the modern woman in a post-apocalyptic wilderness.

What Not

by Rose Macaulay

Introduction by Matthew De Abaitua

ISBN: 9780262544306

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 4, 2022

An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dystopian future England.

Nordenholt's Million

by J. J. Connington

Introduction by Matthew Battles

Afterword by Evan Hepler-Smith

ISBN: 9780262544283

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 2, 2022

As a bacteria threatens to wipe out humankind, a plutocrat sets himself up as the benignant dictator of a survivalist colony.

Of One Blood

by Pauline Hopkins

Introduction by Minister Faust

ISBN: 9780262544290

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 2, 2022

A mixed-race Harvard medical student stumbles upon a hidden Ethiopian city, the inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers.

The World Set Free

by H. G. Wells

Introduction by Sarah Cole

Afterword by Joshua Glenn

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.