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.”

By: Zhimo Xu

“All its trust in two narrow lines, some kind of rails…”

By: Edward A. Johnson

“I silently prayed, ‘God bless the New South!'”

By: Georg Heym

“Comets with their fiery trails / Creep threateningly about…”

By: Edward A. Johnson

“The much despised Yankee has taught the South many lessons…”