The studio of Dr. Moreau
science fiction
During the nineteenth century, a period of great progress in the arts and the sciences, an ancient art form slips the surly bonds of earth
Unattributed woodcut, about 1850, in the Library of Congress at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003672999/. Photoshopped. The lines of verse are by the botanist-poet Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), grandfather of Charles Darwin.
Origins of conservative thought
This (click it to enlarge) is Faith Domergue with some of the high-IQ space aliens from the science fiction classic This Island Earth. The aliens come from a world called Metaluna, which of course means “Beyond the Moon.”
And this
is Allen Tate, feeling wistful about his vanished slaves.