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Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Gothic, Pulp and SF classics

Golden Age writer of over 100 stories Clark Ashton Smith enjoyed a reputation for fast-paced, evocative narratives in the thrilling forms of the golden age genre fiction: horror, science fiction, heroic fantasy and the macabre.

Italian Futurism, These Fantastic Worlds

Only Connect: Fantastic Futurism

“Why should we look back, when what we want is to break down the mysterious doors of the Impossible? Time and Space died yesterday.” So announced Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s in his 1909 ‘Fondazione e Manifest del Futurismo’ (The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism). Along with all other forces of Modernism the Futurists were both agents and reflections of the change in Western …