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Category: Radium Age SF

Sci-fi from the overlooked 1904–33 era.

NYPL RADIUM (3)

By: HILOBROW

Diorama of radium refining laboratory

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BEATRICE THE SIXTEENTH (9)

By: Irene Clyde

The thief drew a heavy sword, and aimed a blow at the other…

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GARE DU MIDI

By: W. H. Auden

“He walks out briskly to infect a city…”

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THE DOOMSMAN (11)

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“A woman cannot be moved about like a piece of furniture.”

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NYPL RADIUM (2)

By: HILOBROW

Diorama of radium being loaded onto airplane

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NYPL RADIUM (1)

By: HILOBROW

“Marie Curie discovered radium…”

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A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS

By: Gertrude Stein

“An arrangement in a system to pointing…”

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BEATRICE THE SIXTEENTH (8)

By: Irene Clyde

I had never learnt the art of fencing, but I was not unfamiliar with the feel of a sword.

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RADIUM AGE ART (1914)

By: Joshua Glenn

SF-adjacent art from the Radium Age’s year 15

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THE DOOMSMAN (10)

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

Men had tamed the lightning and bade it speak their will.

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“I COOKED MY BRAIN…”

By: Aleksei Kruchenykh

“I cooked my brain on an iron rod…”

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A COMPARISON

By: Amy Lowell

“This man is like a mechanical toy…”

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UNPROFESSIONAL (8)

By: Rudyard Kipling

‘What does all this lunacy of ours prove?’

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THE DOOMSMAN (9)

By: Van Tassel Sutphen

“You are not of the children of the Doomsmen.”

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RADIUM AGE ART (1913)

By: Joshua Glenn

SF-adjacent art from the Radium Age’s year 14

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