By: Joshua Glenn

EXPERT MIXOLOGY

By: Joshua Glenn

C.S. Lewis’s OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET. A kidnapped philologist explores Malacandra.

By: Joshua Glenn

Olaf Stapledon’s STAR MAKER: Cosmic consciousness beyond the ken of even the Silver Surfer.

By: Joshua Glenn

From TITUS GROAN and THE DARK WORLD to THE SECRET OF THE SWORDFISH.

By: Joshua Glenn

Maurice Richardson’s THE EXPLOITS OF ENGELBRECHT — far-out contests at the end of history.

By: Joshua Glenn

Mervyn Peake’s TITUS GROAN: a fantastical comedy of manners.

By: Joshua Glenn

Hergé’s PRISONERS OF THE SUN — A lost race of Incas plans to ritually kill Tintin.

By: Joshua Glenn

Lovecraft’s SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH — a Lost Race story about amphibious New Englanders!

By: Joshua Glenn

THE SECRET OF THE SWORDFISH — the first Blake & Mortimer comic.

By: Joshua Glenn

Karel Čapek’s satirical sci-fi adventure WAR WITH THE NEWTS. A subjugated race rebels!

By: Joshua Glenn

Edmund Crispin’s THE MOVING TOYSHOP — a crime novel, and a meta-commentary on crime fiction.

By: Joshua Glenn

Henry Kuttner’s THE DARK WORLD — a parallel world where mutants and wizards rule.

By: Joshua Glenn

William Lindsay Gresham’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Carnival noir.

By: Joshua Glenn

Michael Innes’s FROM LONDON FAR — a scholar gets swept up into a smuggling ring.

By: Joshua Glenn

Josh gets a haircut, 1988-ish.