Haggard! Serialized!
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March 8, 2012
HILOBROW’s serialization of H. Rider Haggard’s When the World Shook begins tomorrow! (The text follows the 1919 first edition, published by Longmans, Green and Co.) New installments will appear each Friday for 24 weeks.
Operating as an imprint of Richard Nash’s publishing platform Cursor, which uses Web 2.0 tools to assemble a community of readers around a book before it’s published in print form, in 2012 HiLoBooks will serialize (via HiLobrow.com) and then republish six overlooked classics of Radium Age science fiction — including Haggard’s only science fiction novel.
In September, HiLoBooks will publish a beautiful new edition of When the World Shook, with an introduction by Atlantic Monthly contributing editor James Parker. (PRE-ORDER IT NOW!)
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RADIUM AGE SCIENCE FICTION: “Radium Age” is HILOBROW’s name for the 1904–33 era, which saw the discovery of radioactivity, the revelation that matter itself is constantly in movement — a fitting metaphor for the first decades of the 20th century, during which old scientific, religious, political, and social certainties were shattered. This era also saw the publication of genre-shattering writing by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sax Rohmer, E.E. “Doc” Smith, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Olaf Stapledon, Karel Čapek, H.P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Philip Gordon Wylie, and other pioneers of post-Verne/Wells, pre-Golden Age “science fiction.” More info here.