9780262553070 - Before Superman: Superhumans of the Radium Age (MIT Press / Radium Age) (15 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 264 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: New. Joshua Glenn is a consulting semiotician and editor of the websites HiLobrow and Semiovox. The first to describe 1900&ndash1935 as science fiction&rsquos &ldquoRadium Age,&rdquo he is editor of the MIT Press&rsquos series of reissued proto-sf stories f.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The weird and wonderful stories of the ancestors of today's comic-book and cinematic superheroes.Financial Times Best Science Fiction Books of 2025Superhumanshumans who have evolved into creatures stronger, smarter, and more gifted than we have any reason to befirst showed up in science-fictional narratives during the genre's emergent Radium Age. Originally published between 1902 and 1928, the stories and excerpts anthologized in this volume by Joshua Glenn feature the likes of Marie Corelli's Young Diana, who, having been rendered super-alluring via a rejuvenation experiment, seeks revenge on a sexist society; Francis Stevens's Thomas Dunbar, one of the first lab-created superhumans; Zoo and Yva, superwomen who contemplate the extermination of us mere mortals, thanks to George Bernard Shaw and H. Rider Haggard; and Alfred Jarry's André Marcueil, a scientist who develops a super-sexual capacity.Hugo Gernsback gives us Ralph 124C 41+, a benevolent super-genius inventor who dwells atop a New York skyscraper. M. P. Shiel tells the story of Hannibal Lepsius, a homeschooled prodigy turned amoral tech bro; and Karel Capek gives us Rudy Marek, an inventor who, having developed superpowers, wonders whether civilization will survive his latest invention. Thea von Harbou's genius scientist, Rotwang, is even less conscientious in his scheming; as is Arthur Conan Doyle's ever-irascible Professor Challenger, here in one of his final outings. Finally, Jean de La Hire's Nyctalope, a popular French superpowered crimefighter character, makes an appearance; and so does Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes . . . though reduced to miniature size.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 211 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The weird and wonderful stories of the ancestors of today's comic-book and cinematic superheroes.Financial Times Best Science Fiction Books of 2025Superhumanshumans who have evolved into creatures stronger, smarter, and more gifted than we have any reason to befirst showed up in science-fictional narratives during the genre's emergent Radium Age. Originally published between 1902 and 1928, the stories and excerpts anthologized in this volume by Joshua Glenn feature the likes of Marie Corelli's Young Diana, who, having been rendered super-alluring via a rejuvenation experiment, seeks revenge on a sexist society; Francis Stevens's Thomas Dunbar, one of the first lab-created superhumans; Zoo and Yva, superwomen who contemplate the extermination of us mere mortals, thanks to George Bernard Shaw and H. Rider Haggard; and Alfred Jarry's André Marcueil, a scientist who develops a super-sexual capacity.Hugo Gernsback gives us Ralph 124C 41+, a benevolent super-genius inventor who dwells atop a New York skyscraper. M. P. Shiel tells the story of Hannibal Lepsius, a homeschooled prodigy turned amoral tech bro; and Karel Capek gives us Rudy Marek, an inventor who, having developed superpowers, wonders whether civilization will survive his latest invention. Thea von Harbou's genius scientist, Rotwang, is even less conscientious in his scheming; as is Arthur Conan Doyle's ever-irascible Professor Challenger, here in one of his final outings. Finally, Jean de La Hire's Nyctalope, a popular French superpowered crimefighter character, makes an appearance; and so does Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes . . . though reduced to miniature size.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Before Superman | Superhumans of the Radium Age | Joshua Glenn | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2025 | The MIT Press | EAN 9780262553070 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The weird and wonderful stories of the ancestors of today's comic-book and cinematic superheroes.Financial Times Best Science Fiction Books of 2025Superhumanshumans who have evolved into creatures stronger, smarter, and more gifted than we have any reason to befirst showed up in science-fictional narratives during the genre's emergent Radium Age. Originally published between 1902 and 1928, the stories and excerpts anthologized in this volume by Joshua Glenn feature the likes of Marie Corelli's Young Diana, who, having been rendered super-alluring via a rejuvenation experiment, seeks revenge on a sexist society; Francis Stevens's Thomas Dunbar, one of the first lab-created superhumans; Zoo and Yva, superwomen who contemplate the extermination of us mere mortals, thanks to George Bernard Shaw and H. Rider Haggard; and Alfred Jarry's André Marcueil, a scientist who develops a super-sexual capacity.Hugo Gernsback gives us Ralph 124C 41+, a benevolent super-genius inventor who dwells atop a New York skyscraper. M. P. Shiel tells the story of Hannibal Lepsius, a homeschooled prodigy turned amoral tech bro; and Karel Capek gives us Rudy Marek, an inventor who, having developed superpowers, wonders whether civilization will survive his latest invention. Thea von Harbou's genius scientist, Rotwang, is even less conscientious in his scheming; as is Arthur Conan Doyle's ever-irascible Professor Challenger, here in one of his final outings. Finally, Jean de La Hire's Nyctalope, a popular French superpowered crimefighter character, makes an appearance; and so does Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes . . . though reduced to miniature size. 211 pp. Englisch.