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The Yellow Peril: Asian Invasions in the Racist Literature of Yesteryear
The Yellow Peril: Asian Invasions in the Racist Literature of Yesteryear
By Benjamin Welton
October 01, 2014

At the height of dime novel and pulp magazine popularity, alarmist writers concocted — to great fanfare — racist images of Asian super villains and military takeovers.

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H. G. Wells’s Predictions: The Right, the Wrong and the Ugly
H. G. Wells’s Predictions: The Right, the Wrong and the Ugly
By Benjamin Welton
September 19, 2014

As a founder of science fiction, Wells got a surprising share the future right. He also got some things very, very wrong.

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Voices from the Past: Old-School Authors Reading on Youtube
Voices from the Past: Old-School Authors Reading on Youtube
By George Dobbs
June 03, 2014

Yeats, Tolkien, Woolf — YouTube is a time capsule of authors’ voices you probably never thought you’d ever hear.

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