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Steampunk
A science-fiction sub-genre that features retrofuturistic settings and steam-powered machinery from the 19th century, often set in alternative timelines.
The Difference Engine
A novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling set in an alternate timeline where Charles Babbage perfects his analytical engine, an early version of a computer that uses punch cards for complex mathematical calculations. In the end the narrator turns out to be a computer gaining consciousness.
Guy Gavriel Kay
An author known for combining history and fantasy, basing his stories on real-world cultures and incorporating elements of their mythology and folklore.
All the Seas of the World
A drama novel by Guy Gavriel Kay, published in 2022, that explores themes of life, choice, and the interconnectedness of people's fates.
A Dog Has Died - Pablo Neruda
A poem by a Chilean poet that reflects on the personality of his deceased dog, highlighting its joyful and carefree nature.
Dodo - Henry Carlile
A poem that portrays the dodo, an extinct bird, as a useless and miserable creature, emphasizing its extinction and its presence only in museum exhibits. It could also be interpreted as the author criticizing himself as people used to call him dodo.
The Dodo - Hilaire Beloc
A humorous poem that humorously reflects on the extinction of the dodo and its confinement to museum exhibits, with a hidden commentary on the colonialist treatment of native cultures.
Brazilian Telephone - Miriam Greenberg
A poem that tells the story of a group of children attempting a science experiment using an old textbook, stealing materials from their surroundings, and ultimately creating a humorous situation.
The Municipal Gallery Revisited - W. B Yeats
A poem that reflects on the difference between the reality of Ireland, marked by wars and conflicts, and the idealized vision of Ireland presented by Irish poets, with a focus on the portraits of his poet friends in a municipal gallery.
On Shakespeare - John Milton
A poem that praises the greatness of a famous English playwright’s works and suggests that his legacy lives on in the hearts
The Ugly Little Boy
A short story written by Isaac Asimov in 1958 about a Neanderthal boy brought to the present via time travel, who is kept in a compound due to the potential creation of paradoxes.
At the tomb of Napoleon - Robert G. Ingersoll
An essay that compares Napoleon’s ‘glory’ to the cost it had on people, creating widows and orphans. In the end the author states that he’d rather die a happy peasant that no one remembers rather than a murderous war ‘hero’, like Napoleon.
Kyoto - Basho
A poem about a Japanese poet’s longing for the cuckoo of Kyoto. The poem is written as a Haiku with 17 syllables (5-7-5).
The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter - Norman Dubie
A poem written from the perspective of Tsar Nicolas II after Russia became communist, expressing his regrets about his joining of WWI, and eventual demise.
A Brief History of Toa Payoh - Koh Buck Song
A poem that talks about a Singaporean city and its historical significance. The city’s name translates to ‘big swamp’ and it is compared in the poem to a pregnant woman.
Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A romantic poem about a Chinese Emperor and his glorious kingdom, mainly Xanadu city. The author wrote the poem based off an opium-influenced dream he had about a book he read the night before about said emperor. He was interrupted and didn’t complete the poem (originally it was supposed to be 200 lines) by a ‘person from Porlock’ (a term referring to someone who disrupts an inspired creative session).
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