By: HILOBROW

“Can you tell me why you’re here, Lesley?” the guidance counselor asks me in this voice like I just got off the short bus.

By: HILOBROW

We’re reading 225+ stories about troubled and troubling super­humans.

By: Joshua Glenn

Mechanical humanoids who continue to haunt today’s sf.

By: Joshua Glenn

Here it is: the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” HiLobrow.com’s Radium Age Science Fiction podcast, recorded every month (as of January ’10) at Pazzo Books, here in Boston. Below, you’ll find an introduction to […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The influence of Radium-Age supermen remains a powerful one.

By: HILOBROW

Here’s the 5th reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. The first episode was taped on January 15th; it’s not […]

By: HILOBROW

CONTEST: HiLobrow.com readers are INVITED TO SUBMIT a short-short (250 words maximum) story about a troubled/troubling superman or -woman. JUDGES: The stories will be judged by HiLobrow.com editors Matthew Battles, author of several SF stories […]

By: HILOBROW

Here’s the 4th reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. The first episode was taped on January 15th; it’s not […]

By: HILOBROW

Here’s the 3rd reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. The first episode was taped on January 15th; it’s not […]

By: HILOBROW

Here’s the 2nd reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. The first episode was taped this past weekend; it’s not […]

By: HILOBROW

This weekend, we recorded the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo Books. We’re still deciding how and when we’re going to make the […]

By: Matthew Battles

As readers of HiLobrow know, Joshua Glenn shows the same mastery over the history of science fiction that a mad scientist exerts over his army of murderous fembots. While Roxxxy the Robot’s makers might claim […]

By: Joshua Glenn

He gave us the term “robot,” as part of his critique of capitalism.

By: Joshua Glenn

The final paragraph of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth’s The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) describes an uncanny scene that nicely limns the Cthulhu Mythos for those of us who may as yet be unfamiliar […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.