Golden Age Sci-Fi 75 (8)
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C.S. Lewis’s OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET. A kidnapped philologist explores Malacandra.
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Josh Glenn, HILOBROW's editor, is a principal of the commercial semiotics agency Semiovox. He is co-author and/or co-editor of several books, including The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the bestselling family activities guide UNBORED. In the ’00s, Josh was a columnist and blogger for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section; in the ’90s, he published the zine/journal Hermenaut. He lives in Kingston, NY.
Golden Age Sci-Fi 75 (7)
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Olaf Stapledon’s STAR MAKER: Cosmic consciousness beyond the ken of even the Silver Surfer.
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10 Best Adventures of 1946
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From TITUS GROAN and THE DARK WORLD to THE SECRET OF THE SWORDFISH.
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Best Adventures of 1946 (10)
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Maurice Richardson’s THE EXPLOITS OF ENGELBRECHT — far-out contests at the end of history.
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Best Adventures of 1946 (9)
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Mervyn Peake’s TITUS GROAN: a fantastical comedy of manners.
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Best Adventures of 1946 (8)
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Hergé’s PRISONERS OF THE SUN — A lost race of Incas plans to ritually kill Tintin.
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Golden Age Sci-Fi 75 (6)
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Lovecraft’s SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH — a Lost Race story about amphibious New Englanders!
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THE SECRET OF THE SWORDFISH — the first Blake & Mortimer comic.
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Golden Age Sci-Fi 75 (5)
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Karel Čapek’s satirical sci-fi adventure WAR WITH THE NEWTS. A subjugated race rebels!
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Best Adventures of 1946 (6)
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Edmund Crispin’s THE MOVING TOYSHOP — a crime novel, and a meta-commentary on crime fiction.
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Best Adventures of 1946 (5)
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Henry Kuttner’s THE DARK WORLD — a parallel world where mutants and wizards rule.
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Best Adventures of 1946 (4)
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William Lindsay Gresham’s NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Carnival noir.
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Best Adventures of 1946 (3)
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Michael Innes’s FROM LONDON FAR — a scholar gets swept up into a smuggling ring.
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Best Adventures of 1946 (2)
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Kenneth Fearing’s THE BIG CLOCK. We are all trapped in an invisible prison.
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