RETRO BLISS, NO SPANDEX
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November 20, 2025
Today, in his column for the Financial Times, British sf author James Lovegrove named Before Superman: Superhumans of the Radium Age, an anthology that HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn edited and introduced for the MIT Press’s RADIUM AGE series, one of the Five Best SF Books of 2025.
Here’s the writeup:
Part of the Radium Age series — reissues and anthologies of early-20th-century science fiction in nattily designed paperback editions — Before Superman assembles stories about superhumans from an era before they achieved comic-book ubiquity. Authors represented include Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Karel Čapek, even George Bernard Shaw. Sheer retro bliss, no spandex.
Very cool!