Tag: radium-poem
Proto sf-adjacent poetry published during the sf genre’s Radium Age (1900–1935).
THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
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“They thought War was an evil thing, and fighting / Filthy at best.”
Read This PostWELLSIAN FUTURES
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“When men are made in bottles / and emerge as squeaky globules…”
Read This PostSAILING TO BYZANTIUM
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“Once out of nature I shall never take / My bodily form from any natural thing…”
Read This PostTO LET GO OR TO HOLD ON —?
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“Is our … leaking ark / at this moment scraping tardy Ararat?”
Read This PostPORTRAIT OF A MACHINE
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“It bears a deeper malice; lives to earn / Its master’s bread…”
Read This Post“THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS”
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“Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree / If mankind perished utterly”
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