New Books in Science Fiction — Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"

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Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"

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Under the direction of founding editor Joshua Glenn, the MIT Press’s Radium Age series is reissuing notable proto–science fiction stories from the underappreciated era between 1900 and 1935. In these forgotten classics, science fiction readers will discover the origins of enduring tropes like robots (berserk or…

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