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A seventeenth-century drawing of a black beetle on bare paper

The Metamorphosis

Kafka's 1915 novella about a salesman who wakes as a giant insect, and a family that learns it can live without him.

Franz Kafka · 603 tokensExplore →

Piranesi's Drawbridge from the Imaginary Prisons: endless stairs, ropes and bridges

Peculiarities of Planetary Conquest at the Peak of Industrial Development

A short story: an alien scout conquers Earth with four broadcasts that convince humanity the invaders are already inside. Then the recording goes home.

Andrei Navrotskii · 3,043 tokensExplore →

Earth as a single faint point of light inside a band of scattered sunlight, seen by Voyager 1 from six billion kilometres away

Shards: Echo

A short story: a starship pilot learns of war on Earth, flees seventy light-years out, and listens as the voices of a vanished humanity travel through space.

Andrei Navrotskii · 1,343 tokensExplore →