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…”

By: Jean de La Hire

“The very nature of the base’s danger was a mystery.”

By: Amy Lowell

“Careening and circling,/Over the dying/Of England.”

By: Walter Everette Hawkins

“I break the limbs of idols / And smash the traditions of men.”

By: Edward A. Johnson

“You Georgians had degenerated in my day.”