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.
Radium Age 100 (93)
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Francis Stevens’s THE HEADS OF CERBERUS — a proto-PKD epistemological thriller!
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Radium Age 100 (92)
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Rose Macaulay’s WHAT NOT — an early sci-fi novel about selective breeding for intelligence.
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10 Best Adventures of 1926
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From THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD to THE DEVIL’S GUARD.
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Best 1926 Adventures (10)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs’s THE MOON MAID — a revolt against communistic alien overlords!
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Best 1926 Adventures (9)
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BEAU SABREUR — an adventure novel, by PC Wren, that deconstructs itself halfway through.
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Radium Age 100 (91)
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“THE FATE OF THE ‘POSEIDONIA'” — one of the first sci-fi pulps published by a woman under her own name.
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Best 1926 Adventures (8)
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Talbot Mundy’s THE DEVIL’S GUARD — a quest to find the legendary Sham-bha-la!
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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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STYRBIORN THE STRONG — a Norse saga retold by E.R. Eddison.
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