This is the latest in MIT Press's Radium Age series, which aims to fill in the largely ignored proto-SF work that was produced between the end of the nineteenth century and the flourishing of science fiction of the 1930s and 40s. These have ranged from the direTheodore Savage to the interesting opening book of the series Voices from the Radium Age.The idea of this volume is to give us stories with characters who are more than human, with distinctly mixed results. A lot of what we get are actu...