Joshua Glenn is a consulting semiotician and editor of the websites HiLobrow and Semiovox. The first to describe 1900–1935 as science fiction’s “Radium Age,” he is editor of the MIT Press’s series of reissued proto-sf stories from that period. He is coauthor and coeditor of various books including the family activities guide Unbored (2012), The Adventurer's Glossary (2021), and Lost Objects (2022). In the 1990s, he published the indie intellectual journal Hermenaut.
Introduction: Homo Superior Ex Machina
Joshua Glenn
1 André Marcueil (1902)
Alfred Jarry
2 Thomas Dunbar (1904)
Francis Stevens
3 Hannibal Lepsius (1909)
M.P. Shiel
4 Léo Saint-Clair (1911)
Jean de La Hire
5 Ralph 124C 41+ (1911–1912)
Hugo Gernsback
6 Young Diana (1917–1918)
Marie Corelli
7 Yva (1919)
H. Rider Haggard
8 Zoo (1921)
George Bernard Shaw
9 Rudy Marek (1922)
Karel Čapek
10 Zuanthrol (1924)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
11 Rotwang (1925)
Thea von Harbou
12 Professor Challenger (1928)
Arthur Conan Doyle
