Earn the first HiLobrow merit badge: The Radium Age.

Aldous Huxley

This pedigreed, highbrow dystopian was a godfather of the Sixties.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, by Frances Benjamin Johnston

Before we blamed our madness on nature, we drove each other crazy.

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He searched far and wide for dialectical synthesis, only to reject it.

Techno-catastrophe strikes our fifth podcast.

The first half of our 5th Radium-Age sf podcast!

Gabriel De Tarde’s “Fragment d’histoire future” — a recording

George Allen England’s DARKNESS AND DAWN — a recording

Edmond Hamilton’s THE POLAR DOOM — a recording.

Fred MacIsaac’s HOTHOUSE WORLD — a recording.

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John Carter, Professor Challenger, and Fu Manchu — that’s why!

Some say the world will end in fire, others cosmic dust.

The second half of our 4th sci-fi podcast.

Tom Nealon reads Stapledon’s LAST MEN IN LONDON

Maureen O’Sullivan’s career began and ended with science fiction flicks.

Anindita Basu Sempere reads Burroughs’ A PRINCESS OF MARS

Susan Roe reads from Garrett P. Serviss’ A COLUMBUS OF SPACE

Tor Aarestad reads from Edwin Lester Arnold’s GULLIVAR JONES

The first half of our 4th sci-fi podcast!

James Parker reads from A. Merritt’s THE FACE IN THE ABYSS

Kristin Parker reads from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s THE COMING RACE

Ryan Mulcahy reads from Haggard’s WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK

Matthew Battles reads from Homer Eon Flint’s THE DEVO­LUTIONIST

Peggy Nelson reads from Otis Adel­bert Kline’s THE PLANET OF PERIL