By: Joshua Glenn

Hesse’s THE GLASS BEAD GAME

By: HILOBROW

“I thought I’d take readers on a mini-tour of SF’s literary sources…”

By: Leslie F. Stone

“The Five were sufficient unto themselves.”

By: Francis Stevens

“And I’m to be sole audience?”

By: Leslie F. Stone

“We make a mistake in descending to the Earth’s core.”

By: Francis Stevens

“A face so expressive of pure, malicious cruelty…”

By: Francis Stevens

“SEE THE GREAT UNSEEN!”

By: Leslie F. Stone

He was floating like a bubble over the city.

By: Francis Stevens

“I suspect he’s been guilty of ‘showing off.’”

By: Leslie F. Stone

They gave no thought to the future at all.

By: Leslie F. Stone

For the last million of years the Earth’s people had been retrograding…

By: Francis Stevens

“Ta-Nezem must rest secure in her gilded house of death.”

By: Francis Stevens

“Are even you quite strong enough to close that door?”

By: Francis Stevens

“You should have seen her face, my dear Quentin…”

By: Francis Stevens

‘The Songstress of the House’ she was called…