JM, Gretchen and Nate

Chrononauts

Arts EN ↓ 161 episodes

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-chrononautsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrononautspodcastTwitter: @ChrononautsSFemail: chrononautspodcast@gmail.comMusic and readings: https://chrononautspodcast.bandcamp.comOpening theme music by Ionas von ZezswitzSounds and effects by NateAI thumbnail art by DALL-E-2 and Stable Diffusion

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JM, Gretchen and Nate

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Arts

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Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

Philip K. Dick - "The Last of the Masters" (1954) | Chrononauts Episode 47.5 15.03.2025

Containing Matters of Maintenance Timestamps: 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/...

Isaac Asimov - "Nightfall" (1941) | Chrononauts Episode 47.4 11.03.2025

Containing Matters Maladapted and Malconstructed. Timestamps: non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary (38:15) spoiler discussion and film adaptations (1:00:13)

W.E.B. Du Bois - "The Comet" (1920) | Chrononauts Episode 47.3 27.02.2025

Containing Matters of Vacancy Timestamps: 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)

S. Belsky - "Under the Comet" (1910) | Chrononauts Episode 47.2 12.01.2025

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

Amado Nervo - "The Last War"(~1906) | Chrononauts Episode 47.1 11.01.2025

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.listenno...

James Tiptree, jr - "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1973) | Chrononauts Episode 46.6 12.12.2024

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)

Harlan Ellison - "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" (1967) | Chrononauts Episode 46.5 07.12.2024

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)

Frederik Pohl - "We Purchased People" (1974) | Chrononauts Episode 46.4 14.11.2024

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)

Gerald Kersh - "The Brighton Monster" (1948) | Chrononauts Episode 46.3 10.11.2024

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/

Sakyo Komatsu - "The Savage Mouth" (1979) | Chrononauts Episode 46.2 30.10.2024

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 Studie...

Kylas Chunder Dutt - "A Journal of 48 Hours In The Year 1945" (1835) | Chrononauts Episode 46.1 27.10.2024

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...

Best and Worst of the Last 14 Episodes | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 6 23.10.2024

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!)

Edward Page Mitchell - "The Man Without a Body" (1877) | Chrononauts Episode 45.5 03.09.2024

Containing Matters of Malformed Materialization. Switching sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M406arpS7ZA

W.C. Morrow - "The Monster Maker" (1887) | Chrononauts Episode 45.4 02.09.2024

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, S...

Ronald Ross - "The Vivisector Vivisected" (1882) | Chrononauts Episode 45.3 01.09.2024

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:...

H.G. Wells - "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896) | Chrononauts Episode 45.2 31.08.2024

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 Ki...

H.G. Wells - "Under the Knife" (1896) | Chrononauts Episode 45.1 30.08.2024

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&quot...

P.D. James - "The Children of Men" (1992) | Chrononauts Episode 44.4 14.07.2024

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)

E.M. Forster - "Little Imber" (1961) | Chrononauts Episode 44.3 13.07.2024

Containing a Matters which arrive at a decisive Finish. Bibliography: Moffat, Wendy - "A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster" (2010)

Judith Merril - "That Only a Mother" (1948) | Chrononauts Episode 44.2 12.07.2024

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)

David H. Keller, MD - "Unto Us a Child is Born" (1933) | Chrononauts Episode 44.1 10.07.2024

Containing the matter of the Junior Philosopher. Timestamps: introductions, recent non-podcast reads, general discussion of the concept of "the family" (0:00) David H. Keller, MD background, non-spoiler discussion (29:51) plot summary and spoiler discussion (51:41) Bibliography: Hicks, Mar - "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order Through Early Computer Dating Systems" (2016)...

Anna Barkova - "A Steel Husband" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.5 11.06.2024

Containing Matters of an Organic System of Movement Music: Valiashchik, Leon - "Elektro-Miss, or; the Electric Girl Fox-Trot" (c. 1920s) https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog/cf95jf74s Bibliography: Fedotova, Margarita and Taganov, Leonid - introduction to "Eight Chapters of Madness" anthology https://royallib.com/read/barkova_anna/vosem_glav_bezumiya_proza_dnevniki.html#0...

Mikhail Zuev-Ordynets - "The Lord of Sound" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.4 10.06.2024

Containing Matters of Manhattan Bibliography: Laboratory of Fantastika "Mikhail Zuev-Ordynets" https://fantlab.ru/autor3217 Music: Maiman, Zinovy - "Don't Need Nothin'" (c. 1920s) https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog/9p290d60k

Yelyzaveta Kardynalovska - "Death of the Happy City" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.3 09.06.2024

Containing Matters of Dam Gold Bibliography: Kardinalowska, Tatiana - "The Ever-Present Past: Memoirs of Tatiana Kardinalowska" (2004) Kyiv - Paris - Dakar Publishing Company - "Tatiana Kardinalowska 'The Ever-present Past' with an afterward written by her daughters - Assya Humesky and Mirtala Pylypenko" https://web.archive.org/web/20201030103053/https://sites.google.co...

Vladimir Orlovsky - "Steckerite" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 43.2 08.06.2024

Containing Matters of Matter. Bibliography: Laboratory of Fantastika - "Vladimir Orlovsky" https://fantlab.ru/autor8584 State University of Polotsk - "Vladimir Evgrafovich Grushvisky" https://www.psu.by/ru/slavnaya-letopis/vypuskniki-kadetskogo-korpusa/grushvitskij-vladimir-evgrafovich Music: Mizandari, Valiko - "Tango of Death" (c. 1910s) https://dpul.princeton.edu/s...

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