About the Author

Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, also wrote a series of thrilling science-fiction adventures starring the brilliant, daring, and comical Professor Challenger. Joshua Glenn is coauthor of The Wage Slave's Glossary, and coeditor of the story collection Significant Objects. He is the editor of HiLobrow.com, and a scholar of the era that he has named science fiction's Radium Age (1904-33).