{"product_id":"more-voices-from-the-radium-age-paperback","title":"More Voices from the Radium Age - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoshua Glenn\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJoshua Glenn\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential collection of proto-science fiction stories that reveals the diverse literary milieu out of which the sci fi genre emerged.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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\u003ci\u003e More Voices from the Radium Age, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore Voices from the Radium Age \u003c\/i\u003ealso 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn essential collection for any sci fi fan, \u003ci\u003eMore Voices from the Radium Age\u003c\/i\u003e is a wild and darkly cathartic ride through the anxieties, fantasies, and nightmares that ultimately shaped the genre we now know as science fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoshua Glenn is a consulting semiotician and editor of the websites HiLobrow and Semiovox. The first to describe 1900-1935 as science fiction's \"Radium Age,\" he is editor of the MIT Press's series of reissued proto-sf stories from that period. He is coauthor and coeditor of various books including the family activities guide \u003ci\u003eUnbored\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eThe Adventurer's Glossary\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and \u003ci\u003eLost Objects\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). In the 1990s, he published the indie intellectual journal \u003ci\u003eHermenaut\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772505981216,"sku":"9780262546430","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/86884c39e6a89b55708b9955a6655c67.webp?v=1780407276","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/more-voices-from-the-radium-age-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}