Theodore Savage

By the time WW1 ended in 1918, London-born Cicely Hamilton had already earned a name for herself as an advocate for both women's rights and marriage equality. As one of Britain's most vocal suffragettes, she'd campaigned for the right of women to vote; as a renowned playwright, she'd written sociall......more

I always get a little sad, in books like this, when the "next generation" is born. That is, when survivors of world's end - those who knew the cities and civilization, and then saw it all blown away - produce the first children...the new people who won't know any other life than some kind of wildern......more

Wow. Cheesy edition but an important rediscovery in early-twentieth century war fiction. Its dystopian speculative fiction if you want to place it in a genre but it is based on Hamilton's experiences as an actress with the YMCA performing near the front lines of WWI. An indictment of modernity, of "......more

A short engaging read from the newly minted "Radium Age" of science fiction, Theodore Savage is packed with ideas and visibly wears its scars from the recently completed Great War. As a future post-apocalypse imagined in the 1920s, The book is both a mirror and a window - reflecting the author's dis......more

Very interesting novel. Can't really judge it as a work of literature and not as historical artifact. It's nice to read a book about an alternative, apocalyptic ending to WWI, written by someone who actually lived in WWI, with the same ideas, education and values of the world of WWI. The book put me......more