
The Young Men Are Coming!
By M.P. Shiel
1937
First Published
375
Number of Pages
Shiel's last book published during his lifetime. "A combination of social reform and scientific fantasy concerned with youth-medicine." The Young Men are Coming! (1937) deals partly with contemporary social upheaval participated in by an advanced multiple-sexed Alien from Jupiter, who takes the side of science against superstition. The sf element here is much more sophisticated and imaginative than contemporary Genre SF, but is buried in a welter of eccentric social philosophy, and told in the decorated style of its author's youth.