A guy by the name of Josh Glenn has put together a list of the best 100 Science Fiction stories from the 'Radium Age', 1904-1933. I'm a little leery, a lot of what gets written and published is absolute dreck, not worth your time or mine. And the qualities that recommend a story for inclusion on this list may not have anything to do with whether it is a good story or not. On the other hand, there are books that I have read and thoroughly enjoyed that wouldn't make any critic's best-of list. You take a gamble every time you pick up a book.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is from this era.
I vaguely remember reading and enjoying some
Tom Swift stories when I was a kid, and the cover art from some of the old Science Fiction books and magazines was pretty cool. I might have to try one of these.
ARS Technica has the story.
HiLoBROW has the list.
HiLoBooks has republished some of them and they are available on Amazon. Via Posthip Scott.
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