{"id":23763,"date":"2026-10-26T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=23763"},"modified":"2026-10-11T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:07:04","slug":"mit-press-radium-age-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2026\/10\/26\/mit-press-radium-age-series\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Press’ Radium Age series"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting series of early science fiction<\/a> works has appeared from MIT Press<\/a>: The Radium Age<\/a>. The series covers science fiction that appeared between 1900 and 1935, before the Golden Age of science fiction.<\/p>\n

\"Voices<\/a><\/p>\n

The series is edited by Joshua Glenn<\/a><\/strong>, who is not<\/em> a science-fiction expert but instead is a “semiotics analyst,” semiotics being the study of “signs,” which is “anything that communicates a meaning that is not the sign itself to the interpreter of the sign.” The idea is that with this series we get to see the origins of various SF tropes such as robots (berserk or benevolent), tyrannical supermen, dystopian wastelands, sinister telepaths, and eco-catastrophes. He calls this period “proto science fiction.” I usually think of it as early SF and pre-SF myself.<\/p>\n

Each volume is 5.25 by 8 inches, and all have cover artwork by the comic artist Seth<\/strong>. The series started in 2022 and has 23 volumes so far, with another coming out early next year. Each one has an introduction by a different person, and sometimes includes an afterword.<\/p>\n

At present, the series consists of the following volumes:<\/p>\n