By: Herbert Read

“shade yourself / against electric signs…”

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

“The girl suddenly became a sluggish replica of her former self.”

By: HILOBROW

Published today by the MIT Press!

By: Leland S. Copeland

“Smaller you grew and dimmer yet / As eons dawned and millennia set…”

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

“Time,” he said, “is an illusion of the senses.”

By: Olaf Stapledon

“An age-long schooling in admiration of an ever-vanishing cosmos.”

By: Joaquín Pasos

“This is Norway / possessed of metal trees…”

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

“For a split fraction of a second, Ramsay’s hand vanished.”

By: H.D.

“We await great events. / We are spread through this earth.”

By: Olaf Stapledon

“A highly sophisticated race, devoted almost wholly to art and science, must take special measures to preserve its contact with the primitive.”

By: Georgia Douglas Johnson

“The world has its motion, all things pass away…”

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

“Everything was entirely normal, save and except for that sudden disappearance of Carl Ramsay’s right hand.”

By: Olaf Stapledon

“They became the Adam and Eve of a new and glorious human species…”

By: William Empson

“Each point in one direction ends the world.”

By: Jean de La Hire

“He discovered no opening in the featureless surface.”