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Chrononauts
Author: JM, Gretchen and Nate
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A science fiction literature history podcast, covering popular and obscure works. Contains spoilers for all works discussed.
Texts and translations: https://chrononautspodcast.blogspot.com/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1093395-chrononauts
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrononautspodcast
Twitter: @ChrononautsSF
email: chrononautspodcast@gmail.com
Music and readings: https://chrononautspodcast.bandcamp.com
Opening theme music by Ionas von Zezswitz
Sounds and effects by Nate
AI thumbnail art by DALL-E-2 and Stable Diffusion
Texts and translations: https://chrononautspodcast.blogspot.com/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1093395-chrononauts
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrononautspodcast
Twitter: @ChrononautsSF
email: chrononautspodcast@gmail.com
Music and readings: https://chrononautspodcast.bandcamp.com
Opening theme music by Ionas von Zezswitz
Sounds and effects by Nate
AI thumbnail art by DALL-E-2 and Stable Diffusion
136 Episodes
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Containing Matters of MaintenanceTimestamps:Philip K. Dick biography, general discussion, "Last of the Masters" non-spoiler discussion (0:00)spoiler summary and discussion 38:55 Bibliography:Capanna, Pablo - "Idios Kosmos - Claves para una biograpfia de Philip K. Dick" (1992)Luminist Archives: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Periodicals https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/Sutin, Lawrence - "Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick" (2005)Music:Johnston, J. S. - "Electric polka" (1878) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023830168
Containing Matters Maladapted and Malconstructed.Timestamps:non-spoiler discussion (0:00)spoiler summary (38:15)spoiler discussion and film adaptations (1:00:13)
Containing Matters of VacancyTimestamps:W.E.B. Du Bois background (0:00)"The Comet" non-spoiler discussion (41:54)spoiler summary and discussion (52:07)Bibliography:Horne, Gerald - "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography" (2009)VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann (eds.) - "The Big Book of Science Fiction" (2016)
Containing Matters of Regression
Timestamps:
S. Belsky biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)
spoiler summary and discussion (23:07)
Bibliography:
Laboratory of Fantastika - "S. Belsky" https://fantlab.ru/autor10001
Music:
Bellak, James - "Comet Schottisch" (1853) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023806609
Containing Matters of Canine Convincing.
Timestamps:
introductions, non-podcast reads, background on the apocalypse (0:00)
Amado Nervo's "The Last War" non-spoiler discussion, plot summary, spoiler discussion (19:00)
Bibliography:
Ferreira, Rachel Haywood - "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction" (2011)
Tres Cuentos Literary Podcast #41 - "The Last War - Amado Nervo" https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/tres-cuentos/41-the-last-war-amado-nervo-1czSFyqr9Mh/
Music:
Scott, Charles P. - "The Cat with the Baritone Voice" (1903) https://www.loc.gov/resource/musapschmidt.10006914/
Containing Matters of Cable Management
Timestamps:
James Tiptree, jr. biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)
plot summary and spoiler discussion (49:56)
Bibliography:
Phillips, Julie - "James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" (2007)
Containing Matters of Mercy
Timestamps:
Harlan Ellison biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)
plot summary and spoiler discussion (49:58)
Bibliography:
Segaloff, Nat - "A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison" (2017)
Containing Matters of Distant Demands.
Timestamps:
Frederik Pohl biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)
spoiler plot summary and discussion (38:57)
Bibliography:
Pohl, Frederik - "The Way the Future Was: A Memoir" (1978)
Containing Matters of Disorienting Displacement.
Timestamps:
Kersh biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)
spoiler summary and discussion (23:22)
Bibliography:
The Nights And Cities Of Gerald Kersh https://web.archive.org/web/20160212044247/https://harlanellison.com/kersh/
Containing Matters of Grotesque Gastronomy.
Bibliography:
Gregory, Sinda and McCaffery, Larry - "Not just a Gibson Clone: An Interview with Goro Masaki" https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045310/http://www.centerforbookculture.org/review/02_2_inter/interview_masaki.html
Tatsumi, Takayuki - "Generations and Controversies - An Overview of Japanese Science Fiction, 1957-1997", Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 2000)
Containing Matters most Revolting.
Bibliography:
Banerjee, Suparno - "Other tomorrows: postcoloniality, science fiction and India" (2010)
Banerjee, Suparno - "Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity" (2020)
Bhattacharya, Atanu and Hiradhar, Preet - "Own Maps/Imagined Terrain: The Emergence of Science Fiction in India", Extrapolation, vol. 55, no. 3 (2014)
Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva - "Aliens of the same world: The Case of Bangla Science Fiction" (2011) https://humanitiesunderground.org/2011/11/07/aliens-of-the-same-world-the-case-of-bangla-science-fiction/
Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva - introduction to "The Inhumans and other stories" (2024)
Harder, Hans - "Indian and International: Some Examples of Marathi Science Fiction Writing", South Asia Research, 21, 1, 2001
Khanna, Rakesh - "The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction", vols 1-3 (2008-2017)
Kuhad, Urvashi - "Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials" (2021)
Mondal, Mini - "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part I" (2018) https://reactormag.com/a-short-history-of-south-asian-speculative-fiction-part-i/
Mondal, Mini - "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part II" (2018)
https://reactormag.com/a-short-history-of-south-asian-speculative-fiction-part-ii/
Mund, Subhendu - "Kylas Chunder Dutt: The First Writer of Indian English Fiction", in "The Making of Indian English Literature" (2021)
Phondke, Bal - preface to "It Happened Tomorrow" (1993)
Saint, Tarun K. (ed) - "The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction" (2019)
Sengupta, Debjani - "Sadhanbabu’s Friends: Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882-1961" in "Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies" (2003)
Tickell, Alex - "Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947" (2012)
Tickell, Alex - "Midnight’s Ancestors: Kylas Chunder Dutt and the Beginnings of Indian-English Fiction", Wasafiri Vol. 21, No. 3 November 2006
Timestamps:
non-podcast reads, non-fiction background favorites (0:00)
worst 3 and best 5 of episodes 32-45, future plans (47:25)
Bookstores mentioned:
Family Book Shop, 1301 N Woodland Blvd, DeLand, FL 32720
RBC Video, 269 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11235
(I said RBC Books by mistake and didn't catch it until after I uploaded this - sorry!)
Containing Matters of Malformed Materialization.
Switching sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M406arpS7ZA
Containing Matters of Malpractice.
Bibliography:
Joshi, S.T. - "The Evolution of the Weird Tale" (2004)
Mobile, AL First National Bank - "Highlights of 75 Years in Mobile" (1940) https://archive.org/download/75yearsinmobile/75yearsinmobile.pdf
Morrow, W.C. - "Some Queer Experiences" (1891) https://archive.org/details/1891somequeerexperiencesmorrowargonaut
Moskowitz, Sam - "Forgotten Master of Horror - The First Phase" in "Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I" (1992)
Containing Matters of Fluidics.
Bibliography:
Haining, Peter - biography on Ronald Ross from "The Monster Makers" anthology (1974)
Nobel Prize and Laureates - "Ronald Ross" https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1902/ross/biographical/
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - "Biography of Sir Ronald Ross" https://web.archive.org/web/20140202111525/http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/ross/biography/
Sinden, Robert E. - "Malaria, mosquitoes and the legacy of Ronald Ross", Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007 Nov; 85(11): 894–896
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636258/
Containing Matters of Mammals.
Timestamps:
non-spoiler discussion (0:00)
spoiler plot summary and discussion (22:18)
general discussion and film adaptaions (1:08:13)
Bibliography:
Philmus, Robert (ed.) - "The Island of Doctor Moreau: a variorum text" (1993)
Rieder, John - "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" (2008)
Sherborne, Michael - "H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life" (1988)
Shippey, Tom - "Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction" (2016)
Music:
Heiné, Joseph - "Madeira polka" (1874) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023820380
Containing Matters of Morphine.
Timestamps:
introductions, recent reads (0:00)
general discussion on the legacy of "Frankenstein" (15:25)
"Under the Knife" discussion (25:55)
Bibliography:
Gaping Blackbird - "The Purple Pileus" https://gapingblackbird.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/the-purple-pileus-by-h-g-wells
Haining, Peter - introduction to "The Monster Makers" anthology (1974)
various articles from "The dental and surgical microcosm" (1891-1893) https://archive.org/details/dentalsurgicalmi03na/mode/2up
Music:
Dayton, J. - "The Mary Jane Polka" (1857) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023811721/
Containing Matters of Midwives and Miracles.
Timestamps:
PD James biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)
spoiler plot summary and commentary (33:40)
spoiler discussion (1:12:30)
Bibliography:
James, P.D. - "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography" (2001)
Containing a Matters which arrive at a decisive Finish.
Bibliography:
Moffat, Wendy - "A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster" (2010)
Containing a Matter of Mutation.
Timestamps:
Judith Merril biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)
spoiler plot summary and discussion (35:09)
Bibliography:
Knight, Damon - "The Futurians" (1977)
Merril, Judith and Pohl-Weary, Emily - "Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril" (2002)
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