By: Edmond Hamilton

“There was no answer from the cold mound of earth…”

By: Jack London

“What was the product of their toil that had given Goliah the wealth necessary to realize his plans? Commercial radium.”

By: Kenneth Fearing

“only Steve, the side-show robot, knows content…”

By: Jack London

“The rest of the vessels never fired a shot.”

By: Velimir Khlebnikov

“Let Lobachevsky’s curves descend / as ornaments over all the city…”

By: Edmond Hamilton

“Detmold had smashed the dreadful menace that was his own creature.”

By: Jack London

“All the world will be dominated by happiness and laughter.”

By: James T. Franklin

“Familiar he is with science, / And knoweth that light by seconds leap…”

By: Edmond Hamilton

“The metal brain was constructing intelligent, similar servants…”

By: Bert Leston Taylor

“My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches / To where Canopus swims.”

By: Jack London

“I have the power. I shall be obeyed.”

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

“now the machines demand / their celebration.”

By: Edmond Hamilton

“He had constructed an intelligence that was more than human.”

By: Joshua Glenn

10 Radium Age art works about the mechanization of humankind.

By: Aleksei Kruchenykh

“It’s an armored fortress / An excavator of crowds. / The Air-Strike!”