“Voices from the Radium Age” – Editor: Joshua Glenn

Hi everyone,

Book of the Month:
“Voices from the Radium Age”
Editor: Joshua Glenn

We will be following up our April contemporary short story collection with a new book celebrating sci fi short stories from the early twentieth century!

From the [Goodreads description](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58385940-voices-from-the-radium-age), “Voices from the Radium Age” features work by the famous (Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes), the no-longer famous (“weird fiction” pioneer William Hope Hodgson), and the should-be-more famous (Bengali feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain). It offers stories by writers known for concerns other than science fiction (W. E. B. Du Bois, author of The Souls of Black Folk) and by writers known only for pulp science fiction (the prolific Neil R. Jones). These stories represent what volume and series editor Joshua Glenn has dubbed “the Radium Age”—the period when science fiction as we know it emerged as a genre. The collection shows that nascent science fiction from this era was prescient, provocative, and well-written.

Let us know in the Comments below which stories you like and feel free to skip one if you’re not digging it. There are always plenty of perspectives and approaches to the format in this collection.

To join a Book Club meeting, all you will need is YOURSELF! If you haven’t had a chance to finish the book, we still would love for you to join us in the discussion.

Cheers,
Jon