The Cosmic Cafe: Science Fiction a la Carte is an anthology of speculative short stories from before, during, and after (but with special focus on) The Radium Age. It includes writing from Johannes Kepler, Voltaire, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jonathan Swift, E.T.A. Hoffman, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Nesbit, W.E.B. DuBois, E.M. Forster, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Booth Tarkington, and many others.