By: Joshua Glenn

10 Radium Age art works about the awe and dread of the smallest particles.

By: Jack London

“I have no time for argument. Get out of the way.”

By: Richard Wright

“They jerked up and down at the throbbing machines…”

By: Gertrude Atherton

“It was quite evident that he was watching charm in action.”

By: Ezra Pound

“And Tovarisch lay in the wind / And the sun lay over the wind, / And three forms became in the air / And hovered about him…”

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.”