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Author: Lilith Lorraine

Lilith Lorraine was the pen-name of pulp fiction author and zine editor Mary Maude Dunn Wright (1894–1967). Her feminist utopia novelette, The Brain of the Planet, was published by Hugo Gernsback as a chapbook in 1929. Other Radium Age sf stories included "Into the 28th Century" (1929), a time-travel story featuring artificial wombs, eugenics, inhaled nutrition, hovercraft, and a woman as President of the United States in 1955; "The Jovian Jest" (1930), "The Celestial Visitor" (1935), and "The Isle of Madness" (1935).

THE BRAIN OF THE PLANET (8)

By: Lilith Lorraine

“The last stand of the old savage instincts…”

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THE BRAIN OF THE PLANET (7)

By: Lilith Lorraine

No man can be happy while others are miserable.

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THE BRAIN OF THE PLANET (6)

By: Lilith Lorraine

Humanity began to savor life itself — to probe it to its uttermost.

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THE BRAIN OF THE PLANET (5)

By: Lilith Lorraine

“Their minds cannot adjust themselves,” he sighed.

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THE BRAIN OF THE PLANET (4)

By: Lilith Lorraine

“I can literally dynamite this Sargasso sea of mental stagnation.”

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THE BRAIN OF THE PLANET (3)

By: Lilith Lorraine

“It has become a crime to give birth to an original idea.”

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THE BRAIN OF THE PLANET (2)

By: Lilith Lorraine

“It needs a super-will that can impose its mandates upon lesser lives…”

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THE BRAIN OF THE PLANET (1)

By: Lilith Lorraine

“The positive minds of the planet have wrought irreparable havoc…”

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