Save the Adventure

By: Joshua Glenn
September 20, 2014

Cici and Ash at their Brooklyn bookstore Singularity & Co.

Last September, I started publishing what became a series of 20 posts categorizing various adventure fiction subgenres. I titled that series SAVE THE ADVENTURE in honor of a digital book club of the same name that Singularity & Co. was kickstarting at that time.

The Kickstarter campaign was successful, and I’ve been working with Singularity & Co. ever since to rescue great un-digitized and out-of-print adventure novels from obscurity… and, in some cases, copyright limbo. But I’ve never officially announced, here at HILOBROW, that Singularity & Co.’s SAVE THE ADVENTURE digital book club is up and running. It is! You can visit the site here: SaveTheAdventure.com.

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Singularity & Co. has chosen some of the titles to be reissued, and I’ve chosen some of them too. Among the titles I’ve chosen (and copy edited, after scanning), two are already available to members of the SAVE THE ADVENTURE club: Morley Roberts’s 1900 hunted-man adventure The Fugitives (which I stumbled upon in Tom Nealon’s bookstore Pazzo years ago, and which we’re currently serializing here at HILOBROW), and William Haggard’s 1963 espionage adventure The High Wire, which we’ll begin serializing here in November.

I’ve got a long list of titles I’d like to see digitized and popularized, and whenever Singularity & Co. figures out the copyright situation of one of these titles I’ll do my part to bring it to new readers!

You can join Singularity & Co.’s SAVE THE ADVENTURE here: Subscribers will receive (at least) 12 classic tales of adventure from the 19th and 20th centuries, lovingly digitized (in EBOOK, MOBI or PDF formats), per year.

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