By: Matthew Battles

As readers of HiLobrow know, Joshua Glenn shows the same mastery over the history of science fiction that a mad scientist exerts over his army of murderous fembots. While Roxxxy the Robot’s makers might claim […]

By: Joshua Glenn

He gave us the term “robot,” as part of his critique of capitalism.

By: Joshua Glenn

The final paragraph of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth’s The Lurker at the Threshold (1945) describes an uncanny scene that nicely limns the Cthulhu Mythos for those of us who may as yet be unfamiliar […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.

By: David Smay

He helped free science fiction from 19th-century (or any) values.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1884-93 cohort sought to make it new, to begin again.

By: Erik Davis

He introduced “outsideness” — cosmic dread — to science fiction.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1874-83 cohort travel far and wide in search of new visions.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1864-73 cohort is a lost generation of absurdists and experimenters.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1844-53 cohort overreached — and worried about it.