“He read the well-known symbols with defiant eyes. He saw that it was just a quarter to thirteen in the afternoon of Thursday, July 18th, 13,000,085 A.D.”

So says the hero in George C Wallis’ Last Days of Earth. Yes, we’re off on our Edwardian Arcane theme again, with some early speculative fiction, a weekly comic of the times, and a great article on themes in Victorian and Edwardian SF by John Guy Collick – author, lecturer and fount of knowledge when it comes to this sort of thing.

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