Sci-fi from the overlooked 1904–33 era.
By: Joshua Glenn
Karel Čapek’s R.U.R.
Hanns Heinz Ewers’s ALRAUNE
Olaf Stapledon’s LAST MEN IN LONDON
Neil R. Jones’s PROFESSOR JAMESON stories
Henry Darger’s IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL
John Taine’s SEEDS OF LIFE
Sax Rohmer’s THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED
David Lindsay’s A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS
Edward Shanks’s THE PEOPLE OF THE RUINS
J.D. Beresford’s THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER
A. Merritt’s THE MOON POOL
Philip Gordon Wylie’s GLADIATOR
H. Rider Haggard’s WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK
Jean de La Hire’s THE NYCTALOPE ON MARS
Frigyes Karinthy’s VOYAGE TO FAREMIDO