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R.U.R. - Rossum's Universal Robots 

Groundbreaking 1920 stage drama that introduced the term "robot" to popular culture. A powerful industrialist creates human-like machines that become self-aware and rebel against their creators. 

Last Ride On The Galena Coach Road and Other Tales 

Twenty original, road-bound stories spanning America's long memory, following ordinary people at extraordinary crossroads, where a single mile can change everything. 


Iron & Ashes: An Epic Poem in the Homeric Tongue in Three Acts 

On a stretch of U.S. 40 near Effingham, Illinois, a scrapyard stands in stubborn order.
Silas Vance is a scrap man—precise, disciplined, unwilling to let iron or principle slip out of alignment. When developers and county officials begin circling the property, the test is quiet but decisive: can stewardship withstand ambition?
Set in the 1970s Midwest, this poem is the first work in a four-part literary cycle. 
John Brown's Body 

This epic poem by Stephen Vincent Benet won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928 and remains one of the best known examples of American epic poetry. It recounts the Civil War from the perspective of the soldiers, civilians, statesmen, and enslaved persons who lived and died in the nation's defining conflict.
METHEIA: An Epic of the Caucasus in Four Movements 

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NEW! An original poem of fire, defiance, sacrifice, and the enduring human struggle against impossible odds. Enter the ancient world of Prometheus — and witness the breaking of chains forged by the gods.