By: Joshua Glenn

The eighth year of the Radium Age

By: Valery Bryusov

They resembled wild animals in their ferocity.

By: Joshua Glenn

Year five of sf’s Radium Age.

By: Valery Bryusov

Anarchy reached its last limits.

By: Valery Bryusov

There commenced a dreadful orgy of the despairing.

By: Valery Bryusov

The sense of property vanished.

By: Valery Bryusov

Some simulated madness in order to escape punishment.

By: Valery Bryusov

They fled in fright to the outskirts of the town.

By: Valery Bryusov

Everyone fled who could.

By: Valery Bryusov

Life was standardised even to the most minute details.

By: Valery Bryusov

The number of working hours in the day were small in the extreme.