{"product_id":"voices-from-the-radium-age-isbn-9780262543378","title":"Voices from the Radium Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century features work by the famous (Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes), the no-longer famous (“weird fiction\" pioneer William Hope Hodgson), and the should-be-more famous (Bengali feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain). It offers stories by writers known for concerns other than science fiction (W. E. B. Du Bois, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e) and by writers known only for pulp science fiction (the prolific Neil R. Jones). These stories represent what volume and series editor Joshua Glenn has dubbed “the Radium Age”—the period when science fiction as we know it emerged as a genre. The collection shows that nascent science fiction from this era was prescient, provocative, and well written.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eReaders will discover, among other delights, a feminist utopia predating Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s \u003ci\u003eHerland\u003c\/i\u003e by a decade in Hossain’s story, “Sultana’s Dream”; a world in which the human population has retreated underground, in E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”; an early entry in the Afrofuturist subgenre in Du Bois’s last-man-on-Earth tale, “The Comet”; and the first appearance of Jones’s cryopreserved Professor Jameson, who despairs at Earth’s wreckage but perseveres—in a metal body—to appear in thirty-odd more stories.\u003cbr\u003e Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction xiii\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Glenn\u003cbr\u003eSultana's Dream (1905) 1\u003cbr\u003eRokeya Sakhawat Hossain\u003cbr\u003eThe Voice in the Night (1907) 17\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Hope Hodgson\u003cbr\u003eThe Machine Stops (1909) 35\u003cbr\u003eE. M. Forster\u003cbr\u003eThe Horror of the Heights (1913) 81 \u003cbr\u003eArthur Conan Doyle \u003cbr\u003eThe Red One (1918) 105\u003cbr\u003eJack London\u003cbr\u003eThe Comet (1920) 141\u003cbr\u003eW. E. B. Du Bois \u003cbr\u003eThe Jameson Satellite (1931) 161\u003cbr\u003eNeil R. Jones\"For early SF buffs, this will be a substantial delight.”—\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even if you’re just looking for old-school adventure mixed with still trenchant social allegory this is a lineup full of winners. The rest of the series promises to be a just as big a treat and, with cover designs by Guelph artist Seth, they’re nice to look at too.\"—Alex Good, \u003cb\u003eThe Toronto Star\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These stories fizz and pop with something much better than believable possibilities. They remind us of how joyful the future once seemed.\"—Scott Bradfield, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe LA Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eJoshua Glenn, writer and semiotician, is the editor of the Radium Age series and the publisher of HiLobrow. He is the coauthor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Idler’s Glossary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnbored: The Essential Field Guide to Serious Fun\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302042161381,"sku":"NP9780262543378","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543378.jpg?v=1767743512","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/voices-from-the-radium-age-isbn-9780262543378","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}