Series Foreword vii
Introduction: The Radical Future of The Clockwork Man xiii
Analee Newitz
1 The Coming of the Clockwork Man 1
2 The Wonderful Cricketer 19
3 The Mystery of the Clockwork Man 33
4 Arthur Withers Thinks Things Out 51
5 The Clockwork Man Investigates Matters 69
6 "It was not so, it is not so, and, indeed, God forbid it should
be so." 87
7 The Clockwork Man Explains Himself 109
8 The Clock 125
9 Gregg 139
10 Last Appearance of the Clockwork Man 159
E. V. Odle (1890-1942) was a Bloomsbury-adjacent magazine editor in London.
"An excellent example of the promise of the Radium Age series,
giving deserved attention to a hilarious and prescient work of
science fiction that has almost been forgotten."
—Shelf Awareness
“Fluidity versus fixedness as markers of peace versus conflict is a
strikingly resonant argument to find in a novel that’s just under a
century old, and it more than justifies time spent in the
company of The Clockwork Man.”
—The Los Angeles Review of Books
About the Radium Age Series:
“Joshua Glenn’s admirable Radium Age series [is] devoted to early-
20th-century science fiction and fantasy.”
— The Washington Post
“Long live the Radium Age.”
— The Los Angeles Times
“It’s an attractive crusade. […] Glenn’s project is well
suited to providing an organizing principle for an SF reprint line,
to the point where I’m a little surprised that I can’t think of
other similarly high-profile examples of
reprint-as-critical-advocacy. ”
—The Los Angeles Review of Books
“Neglected classics of early 20th-century sci-fi in spiffily
designed paperback editions.”
—The Financial Times
“New editions of a host of under-discussed classics of the
genre.”
—Tor.com
“Shows that ‘proto-sf’ was being published much more widely,
alongside other kinds of fiction, in a world before it emerged as a
genre and became ghettoised.”
—BSFA Review
“A huge effort to help define a new era of science fiction.”
—Transfer Orbit
“An excellent start at showcasing the strange wonders offered by
the Radium Age.”
—Maximum Shelf
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