Glenn Joshua - More Voices From The Radium Age - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 outr 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.
Title: More Voices From The Radium Age
Author(s): Glenn Joshua
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Barcode: 9780262546430
Pages: 248 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2023
Category: Science Fiction