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Tag: radium-age sf

For a guide to all Radium Age proto-sf novels and stories (and poems) we’ve published, click here.

Enter Highbrowism

By: Joshua Glenn

A 1911 exposé of a mutant species with high brows

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Olaf Stapledon

By: Joshua Glenn

Was this philosophical romancer a “science fiction” author?

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Yevgeny Zamyatin

By: Joshua Glenn

Zamyatin’s We isn’t anti-utopian, but anti-anti-utopian.

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Happy 90th, Robots!

By: Joshua Glenn

Karel Čapek introduced that term, in Prague, in 1921…

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R.U.R. or Is You Ain’t

By: Joshua Glenn

A never-made super-sensational robot movie.

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Eye Candy

By: Joshua Glenn

Godzilla in Poland; Radium-Age schoolchildren

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Zero Degrees of Separation

By: Joshua Glenn

Another first for Radium-Age science fiction!

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Badges Earned (1)

By: Peggy Nelson

Reader badge submissions of exceptional merit.

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Pulp Sci Fi History

By: Joshua Glenn

Where did science fiction come from?

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Meet the Semionauts

By: Joshua Glenn

Pity the poor semio­naut, who “reads” the world phen­omeno­logically.

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Upton Sinclair

By: Joshua Glenn

“I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

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Alfred Jarry

By: Joshua Glenn

He was a martyr in the cause of absurdism and ’pataphysics.

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Merit Badge (1)

By: Peggy Nelson

Earn the first HiLobrow merit badge: The Radium Age.

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Aldous Huxley

By: Amanda French

This pedigreed, highbrow dystopian was a godfather of the Sixties.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

By: Amanda French

Before we blamed our madness on nature, we drove each other crazy.

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