{"product_id":"theodore-savage-isbn-9780262545228","title":"Theodore Savage","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen war breaks out in Europe, British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named protagonist must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain. When we first meet Theodore Savage, he is a complacent civil servant, primarily concerned with romancing his girlfriend. During a brief war in which both sides use population displacement as a terrible strategic weapon, Savage must battle his fellow countrymen. He shacks up with an ignorant young woman in a forest hut—a kind of inverse Garden of Eden, where no one is happy. Eventually, he sets off in search of other survivors . . . only to discover a primitive society where science and technology have come to be regarded with superstitious awe and terror. A pioneering feminist, Hamilton offers a warning about the degraded state of modern women, who—being “unhandy, unresourceful, superficial”—would suffer a particularly sad fate in a postapocalyptic social order.Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: \"The Wars of the Air and the Laboratory\": \u003ci\u003eTheodore Savage \u003c\/i\u003eat 100 xiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan R. Grayzel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI 1 \u003cbr\u003eII 13\u003cbr\u003eIII 23\u003cbr\u003eIV 37\u003cbr\u003eV 43\u003cbr\u003eVI 61\u003cbr\u003eVII 77\u003cbr\u003eVIII 89\u003cbr\u003eIX 99\u003cbr\u003eX 107\u003cbr\u003eXI 117\u003cbr\u003eXII 127\u003cbr\u003eXIII 135\u003cbr\u003eXIV 149\u003cbr\u003eXV 157\u003cbr\u003eXVI 165\u003cbr\u003eXVII 175\u003cbr\u003eXVIII 181\u003cbr\u003eXIX 197\u003cbr\u003eXX 203\u003cbr\u003eXXI 213\u003cbr\u003eXXII 225\u003cbr\u003eXXIII 237\u003cb\u003eIncluded in Tor.com's \"Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for January and February 2023\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Written in the Interwar Period, \u003ci\u003eTheodore Savage\u003c\/i\u003e is a terrifying and prescient science fiction novel that’s unflinching in its portrayal of the fragile scaffolding that supports “civilized” society.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—ForeWord Reviews, STARRED\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Prescient both to Hamilton’s time and to the current moment of war, plague, and refugee crises, this novel deserves to be rediscovered. Readers will have much to chew on.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—P\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Decades later, scores of novels about the aftermath of nuclear war would deploy a similar gambit; few are quite this effective.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn Praise of the Radium Age Series:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Joshua Glenn’s admirable Radium Age series [is] devoted to early- 20th-century science fiction and fantasy.” \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eT\u003ci\u003ehe \u003c\/i\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Long live the Radium Age.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Neglected classics of early 20th-century sci-fi in spiffily designed paperback editions.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“New editions of a host of under-discussed classics of the genre.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTor.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBSFA Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A huge effort to help define a new era of science fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTransfer Orbit\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“An excellent start at showcasing the strange wonders offered by the Radium Age.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaximum Shelf\u003c\/i\u003es\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Miss Hamilton always writes forcibly, and her present novel deals with the heart-shaking effects of the next war. It might, indeed, be used as a tract to convey an awful warning….”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e (1922)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Miss Hamilton has spun so finely with the intimate fibres of human emotion and thought that the whole effect is startlingly real.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Bookman\u003c\/i\u003e (1922)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Terror falls from the skies, and within a few months England has become a collection of small tribes living separately and brutishly, tilling the soil and building hutments.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Fortnightly Review\u003c\/i\u003e (1924)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A particularly effective and chilling version of a theme that dominates British speculative fiction between the wars.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Anatomy of Wonder, \u003c\/i\u003eNeil Barron, ed.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Hamilton is one of the first—and among the darkest—of those UK novelists whose vision of things was shaped by WWI, which they saw as foretelling the end of civilization.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, Clute and Nicholls, eds.\u003c\/b\u003eCicely Hamilton (1872–1952) was an Anglo-Irish actress, author, and feminist campaigner best known for her 1909 treatise \u003ci\u003eMarriage as a Trade\u003c\/i\u003e. Her prewar plays include \u003ci\u003eDiana of Dobson’s\u003c\/i\u003e (1908) and \u003ci\u003eHow the Vote Was Won\u003c\/i\u003e (1909). After working in the north of France during World War I and witnessing how its violence affected civilians, she was inspired to write Theodore Savage (1922), a proto-sf novel presciently foregrounding modern warfare’s destructive power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan R. Grayzel is Professor of History at Utah State University, where she researches and teaches about modern European history, women’s and gender history, the history of the world wars, and war and culture. Her publications in these areas include \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Identities at War\u003c\/i\u003e (1999) and \u003ci\u003eAt Home and Under Fire\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). Her latest book is \u003ci\u003eThe Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War\u003c\/i\u003e (Cambridge University Press, 2022).","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302138433765,"sku":"NP9780262545228","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545228.jpg?v=1767742383","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/theodore-savage-isbn-9780262545228","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}