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The MIT Press is rescuing early 20th-century science fiction from obscurity. The excerpts that follow might remind you of stories that came later.

Michael Dirda THE WASHINGTON POST – In What Is Literature? Jean-Paul Sartre emphasised that authors shouldn’t think about posterity but rather write for their own time. This has always struck me as an obvious precept, even when poets and novelists can’t help but hope that somehow their best work might become, as Horace boasted of […]

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Is evil a cosmic constant, or a human construct? The answer may not be easy to find and hinge on the intensity of religious belief. But, there is no doubt in accepting that evil, regardless of its origin, has to be countered when it harms ...

In 1953, Hellboy and Professor Bruttenholm hear a first hand account from the legendary Silver Lantern Club about a strange incident in the past.