By: Joshua Glenn

Victor Rousseau’s THE MESSIAH OF THE CYLINDER — an early dystopia.

By: Joshua Glenn

E.E. “Doc” Smith’s SPACEHOUNDS OF IPC — an early space opera.

By: Joshua Glenn

Maurice Renard’s DOCTEUR LERNE — in which the Minotaur myth comes to life!

By: Joshua Glenn

John Collier’s NO TRAVELLER RETURNS — by one of the New Yorker’s best writers.

By: Joshua Glenn

John Taine’s THE TIME STREAM

By: Joshua Glenn

Francis Stevens’s THE HEADS OF CERBERUS — a proto-PKD epistemological thriller!

By: Joshua Glenn

Rose Macaulay’s WHAT NOT — an early sci-fi novel about selective breeding for intelligence.

By: Joshua Glenn

“THE FATE OF THE ‘POSEIDONIA'” — one of the first sci-fi pulps published by a woman under her own name.

By: Joshua Glenn

Leslie F. Stone’s THE CONQUEST OF GOLA — hapless male Earthlings invade matriarchal Venus!

By: Joshua Glenn

Laurence Manning’s THE MAN WHO AWOKE — a MATRIX-like dystopian future.

By: Joshua Glenn

Lester Dent’s DOC SAVAGE — a Golden Age superman emerges from the Radium Age.

By: Joshua Glenn

John Collier’s TOM’S A-COLD — set in an England reduced to rubble by greed and laziness.

By: Joshua Glenn

Before Han Solo, there was C.L. Moore’s NORTHWEST SMITH, a gun-slinging space smuggler.

By: Joshua Glenn

Clark Ashton Smith’s ZOTHIQUE stories. Earth is dying — necromancers roam the wastes!

By: Joshua Glenn

Edwin Balmer and Philip Gordon Wylie’s WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE