{"product_id":"nordenholts-million-isbn-9780262544283","title":"Nordenholt's Million","description":"\u003cb\u003eAs a bacteria threatens to wipe out humankind, a plutocrat sets himself up as the benignant dictator of a survivalist colony.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this novel originally published in 1923, as denitrifying bacteria inimical to plant growth spreads around the world, toppling civilizations and threatening to wipe out humankind, the British plutocrat Nordenholt sets himself up as the benignant dictator of a ruthlessly efficient, entirely undemocratic, survivalist colony established in Scotland’s Clyde Valley. Discovering just how far their employer is willing to go in his effort to spare one million lives, Jack Flint, the colony’s director of operations, and Elsa Huntingtower, Nordenholt’s personal assistant, are forced to grapple with the question of whether a noble end justifies dastardly means.Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Benignant Fascism xiii\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Battles\u003cbr\u003eI Genesis 1\u003cbr\u003eII The Coming of \"The Blight\" 19\u003cbr\u003eIII \u003ci\u003eB. Diazotans \u003c\/i\u003e31\u003cbr\u003eIV Panic 41\u003cbr\u003eV Nordenholt 49\u003cbr\u003eVI The Psychology of the Breaking-strain 75\u003cbr\u003eVII Nordenholt's Million 103\u003cbr\u003eVIII The Clyde Valley 121\u003cbr\u003eIX Intermezzo 147\u003cbr\u003eX The Death of the Leviathan 165\u003cbr\u003eXI Fata Morgana 175\u003cbr\u003eXII Nuit Blanche 183\u003cbr\u003eXIII Reconstruction 221\u003cbr\u003eXIV Winter in the Outer World 243\u003cbr\u003eXV Document B. 53. X. 15 263\u003cbr\u003eXVI In the Nitrogen Area 281\u003cbr\u003eXVII Per Iter Tenebricosum 301\u003cbr\u003eXVIII The Eleventh Hour 319\u003cbr\u003eXIX The Breaking-strain 339\u003cbr\u003eXX Asgard 349\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Alfred Walter Stewart 357\u003cbr\u003eEvan Hepler-Smith“I’ve been particularly looking forward to this installment of the [Radium Age] series.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e— Andrew Liptak, Transfer Orbit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIn Praise of the Radium Age Series:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Joshua Glenn’s admirable Radium Age series [is] devoted to early- 20th-century science fiction and fantasy.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Long live the Radium Age.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“It’s an attractive crusade. […] Glenn’s project is well suited to providing an organizing principle for an SF reprint line, to the point where I’m a little surprised that I can’t think of other similarly high-profile examples of reprint-as-critical-advocacy. ”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Neglected classics of early 20th-century sci-fi in spiffily designed paperback editions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e —\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“New editions of a host of under-discussed classics of the genre.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTor.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Shows that ‘proto-sf’ was being published much more widely, alongside other kinds of fiction, in a world before it emerged as a genre and became ghettoised.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBSFA Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A huge effort to help define a new era of science fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTransfer Orbit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“An excellent start at showcasing the strange wonders offered by the Radium Age.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMaximum Shelf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003es\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“The situations are tremendous, and there are horrors of all kinds. It is a thrilling book.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Daily Mail (1923)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“You may like \u003ci\u003eNordenholt’s Million\u003c\/i\u003e or you may detest it, but there is one thing I defy you to do, and that is to forget it.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Punch (1923)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A capital yarn, in the Jules Verne-cum-H. G. Wells manner. Does infinite credit to the author’s ingenuity.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Truth (1923)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“An extremely good example of the scientific romance.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—To-Day (1923)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“I can’t think of a more timely moment to reissue \u003ci\u003eNordenholt’s Million\u003c\/i\u003e, a chilling prediction of eco-catastrophe and the authoritarian regimes that can and do arise during such periods of chaos.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Douglas Rushkoff, author of \u003ci\u003eTeam Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eUnder the pseudonym J. J. Connington, Alfred Walter Stewart (1880–1947)  wrote seventeen well-received detective novels; \u003ci\u003eNordenholt’s Million\u003c\/i\u003e is his only science fiction novel. Stewart was a distinguished British chemist and author of the popular textbooks \u003ci\u003eRecent Advances in Organic Chemistry \u003c\/i\u003e(1908) and \u003ci\u003eRecent Advances in Physical and Inorganic Chemistr\u003ci\u003ey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e (1909). Via a 1918 theory of the physical chemistry of radioactivity, he contributed the term \u003ci\u003eisobar\u003c\/i\u003e—as complementary to the term \u003ci\u003eisotope\u003c\/i\u003e—to science. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMatthew Battles is the author of \u003ci\u003eLibrary: An Unquiet History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePalimpsest\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTree\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereignties of Invention\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science, technology, and the natural world have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e. For Harvard's metaLAB, he develops research into the dark abundance of collections, cultural and technology, and conditions of experience in the context of deep time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEvan Hepler-Smith teaches the history of science and technology and environmental history at Duke University. He has a special interest in the history of chemicals and chemistry, information technology, and environmental regulation. His book in progress is entitled \u003ci\u003eCompound Words: Chemical Information and the Molecular World.\u003c\/i\u003e His writing has been published in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Time.com, and \u003ci\u003ePublic Books\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300449177829,"sku":"NP9780262544283","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262544283.jpg?v=1767733869","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/nordenholts-million-isbn-9780262544283","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}