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Before Superman: Superhumans of the Radium Age

By Joshua Glenn (Editor), Joshua Glenn (Introduction)
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By Joshua Glenn (Editor), Joshua Glenn (Introduction)
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The weird and wonderful stories of the ancestors of today’s comic-book and cinematic superheroes.

Financial Times Best Science Fiction Books of 2025

Superhumans—humans who have evolved into creatures stronger, smarter, and more gifted than we have any reason to be—first showed up in science-fictional narratives during the genre’s emergent Radium Age. Originally published between 1902 and 1928, the stories and excerpts anthologized in this volume by Joshua Glenn feature the likes of Marie Core...

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