Author: Joshua Glenn
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.
Best 1926 Adventures (7)
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Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey crime adventure CLOUDS OF WITNESS.
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Radium Age 100 (90)
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Leslie F. Stone’s THE CONQUEST OF GOLA — hapless male Earthlings invade matriarchal Venus!
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Best 1926 Adventures (6)
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PAYMENT DEFERRED — an early thriller by C.S. Forester, author of the HORATIO HORNBLOWER series.
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Best 1926 Adventures (5)
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Nevil Shute’s MARAZAN — the first adventure by the author of ON THE BEACH.
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Best 1926 Adventures (4)
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DEATH SHIP, B. Traven’s sea-going adventure (and anti-capitalist critique).
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Best 1926 Adventures (3)
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STYRBIORN THE STRONG — a Norse saga retold by E.R. Eddison.
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Best 1926 Adventures (1)
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Agatha Christie’s THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD makes it onto Josh’s Top 10 list for 1926.
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Laurence Manning’s THE MAN WHO AWOKE — a MATRIX-like dystopian future.
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Lester Dent’s DOC SAVAGE — a Golden Age superman emerges from the Radium Age.
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John Collier’s TOM’S A-COLD — set in an England reduced to rubble by greed and laziness.
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Before Han Solo, there was C.L. Moore’s NORTHWEST SMITH, a gun-slinging space smuggler.
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