<![CDATA[io9: 1920s]]> http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: 1920s]]> http://io9.com/tag/1920s http://io9.com/tag/1920s <![CDATA[10 Scariest Eco-Catastrophes from Early Science Fiction]]> These days, SF thrillers in which natural disasters end human life as we know it are mainstream fare. But long before M. Night Shyamalan and J.G. Ballard flirted with disaster, the authors of SF's Pre-Golden Age (1904-33) speculated wildly, and sometimes presciently, about the possible causes of dire biospheric transformations. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5259366&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Mad Mentalists of Pre-Golden-Age SF]]> Paving the way for Vulcans, Slan, Espers, Professor X and Babylon 5's Lyta Alexander, SF writers of the Pre-Golden Age (1904-33) dared to imagine how normal people might react if telepaths were discovered among us. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5205546&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Super-est Supermen of Pre-Golden Age SF]]> Long before Alan Moore asked "Who will watch the Watchmen?" science fiction writers of the Pre-Golden Age (1904-33) worried whether supermen would rescue us ordinary mortals - or try to dominate us. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5149263&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Coolest Robots of Pre-Golden Age SF]]> During science fiction's Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), writers dreamed up mechanical and quasi-organic humanoids so compelling that they continue to haunt today's scifi, forcing us to ask what it means to be human. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5126907&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Most Amazing Book Covers from Pre-Golden Age SF]]> Click to viewSome of the most gorgeous, evocative, and strange science fiction art you've ever seen comes from the covers of novels written between 1904-33, in SF's "pre-Golden Age." More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5104015&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The 10 Best Apocalypse Novels of Pre-Golden Age SF (1904-33)]]> With Wall-E director Andrew Stanton working on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1917 novel A Princess of Mars, you need a crash course in books from this seminal era in science fiction. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5098861&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Science Fiction's Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), an Introduction]]> Earlier this year, I formulated an eccentric but strict periodization scheme, in which the Nineteen-Oughts (not to be confused with the 1900s), for example, run from 1904 through 1913; the Teens (not to be confused with the '10s) from 1914-23; and the Twenties (not to be confused with the '20s) from 1924-33. And so forth. More »
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