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.”

By: Hirato Renkichi

“A GIANT MAGNETIC ENERGY SWALLOWED THEM WHOLE”

By: Olaf Stapledon

“It was becoming increasingly difficult to devise new lines of research.”

By: Lola Ridge

“A thin black piston flying, / One with her machine.”

By: Olaf Stapledon

“The great brain was wholly lacking in all normal instinctive responses…”

By: Jean de La Hire

“It’s the world’s largest radiotelegraph installation…”

By: Pierre Drieu de La Rochelle

“The lines of the sphere are sensitive…”

By: Edward A. Johnson

“The man she helped rescue from his trip in an air ship.”

By: John Peale Bishop

“We did not know the end was coming: nor why / It came…”

By: Jean de La Hire

“He could see only the bizarre phosphorescent eyes of the Nyctalope.”