Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voices from the Radium Age | 2022 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 2 | A World of Women | 2022 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 3 | The World Set Free | 2022 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 4 | The Clockwork Man | 2022 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 5 | Of One Blood | 2022 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 6 | Nordenholt’s Million | 2022 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 7 | What Not | 2022 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 8 | Theodore Savage | 2023 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 9 | The Lost World and The Poison Belt | 2023 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 10 | More Voices from the Radium Age | 2023 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 11 | The Napoleon of Notting Hill | 2023 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 12 | The Inhumans and Other Stories | 2024 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
| 13 | Before Superman | 2025 | Arthur Conan Doyle | Buy |
The MIT Press Radium Age series, edited by Joshua Glenn, began in 2022 as a project to reprint and reassess science fiction from the early twentieth century. The “Radium Age” label covers the period from roughly 1900 to 1935, a time when writers were grappling with new technologies like radio, aviation, and atomic physics. The series includes both well-known works (like Doyle’s The Lost World and The Poison Belt, published together in a single volume) and novels that had fallen almost completely out of print.
Other titles in the series include The Clockwork Man by E.V. Odle, Nordenholt’s Million by J.J. Connington, and What Not by Rose Macaulay. The companion anthologies Voices from the Radium Age and More Voices from the Radium Age collect shorter fiction from the period. Each volume features a new introduction placing the work in historical context. The series is valuable both for readers who enjoy early science fiction and for anyone interested in the literary history of the genre before the pulp magazines took over.