Chrononauts

Containing Matters in which Benefit the Working and the Leisure Classes. Timestamps: Volodymyr Vladko - "The Defeat of Jonathan Govers" (1929) (0:00) Edward Page Mitchell - "The Ablest Man in the World" (1879) (37:46) Bibliography: Karatsupa, Vitaly - "Vladko, Volodymyr Mikolaiovich", Archive of Fantastika, http://archivsf.narod.ru/1900/vladimir_vladko/index.htm Labor...

Containing Matters in which the Tragedy and the Comedy of the Mechanized Worker is Performed. Timestamps: Karel Čapek biography/non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary/discussion (46:25) Bibliography: Klíma - Ivan - "Karel Čapek: Life and Work" (2002) Kussi, Peter (ed.) - "Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Čapek Reader" (1990)

Containing Matters of The Worms Timestamps: introductions, recent reads (0:00) E.M. Forster background, non-spoiler discussion (12:38) spoiler plot summary, spoiler discussion (49:59) Bibliography: Lago, Mary - "Forster on E. M. Forster", Twentieth Century Literature, Summer - Autumn (1985) Moffat, Wendy - "A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster" (2010) Rau, Sa...

Containing Matters of Cooking, Cleaning and Marriage. Timestamps: Elizabeth W. Bellamy - "Ely's Automatic Housemaid" (1899) (0:00) Alice W. Fuller - "A Wife Manufactured to Order" (1895) (20:04) Bibliography: Ashley, Mike - "The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers" (2015) Ashley, Mike - "The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imaginat...

Containing matters of Self-Replication. Bibliography: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - "Karl Hans Strobl" https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/strobl_karl_hans Schoolfield, George C. - "Young Rilke and His Time" (2009) Strobl, Karl Hans - "My Debt to Books", Books Abroad vol. 13 no. 2, Spring 1939 VanderMeer, Ann and Jeff (eds.) - "The Big Book of Science Ficti...

Containing Matters concerning the Evolution of Inorganics towards a new Revolution. Timestamps: introductions, recent non-podcast reads (0:00) historical background on computing and calculating machines, plus artificial intelligence (16:50) Samuel Butler background/biography (34:45) "Erewhon" discussion and summary (50:16) Bibliography: Boole, George - "Collected Logical Works"...

Containing Matters of an Aristocratic Prerogative. Timestamps: C.L. Moore background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary (26:39) spoiler discussion, film adaptation (42:34) Bibliography: Del Rey, Lester - introduction to "The Best of C. L. Moore" (1977) Moore, C.L. - "Footnote to ‘Shambleau’...and Others" in "The Best of C. L. Moore" (1975) Science Fic...

Containing Matters into which Realism is Introduced. Timestamps: Anderson background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and discussion (19:38) Bibliography: Martin, Douglas - "Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74". The New York Times, August 3, 2001 Nevala-Lee, Alec - "Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and...

Containing Matters which are best Discussed with Brandy. Timestamps: introductions, de Camp background (0:00) non-spoiler discussion, historical background (42:02) spoiler summary, discussion (1:12:09) Bibliography: Ashley, Mike and Tymn, Marshall - "Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines: (Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers)" (1985) Cassiodoru...

Containing matters in which the Boss locates the Root of ills. Timestamps: introductions (0:00) Mark Twain biography, background on Arthurian cycle (7:42) non-spoiler discussion (1:09:44) spoiler plot summary (1:27:38) spoiler general discussion (2:59:28) Bibliography: Canavan, Gerry (ed.) - "The Cambridge History of Science Fiction" (2019) Great Courses: King Arthur https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Containing Matters in which the Past reaches the Present. Timestamps: introductions, Butler biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary (48:17) spoiler general discussion, tv show discussion (1:57:58) Bibliography: Behrent, Megan -"The Personal is Historical: Slavery, Black Power, and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred", College Literature, volume 46, issue 4 (2019) Butler, O...

Containing matters concerning the Program Itself. Timestamps: recent non-podcast reads, podcast music (0:00) bottom 3/top 5 of 2022 podcast titles (1:09:20) an arbitrary imposed break/top 5 cont./2023 plans (1:52:05) Works mentioned: Agustina Bazterrica - "Tender is the Flesh" Ray Bradbury - "Something Wicked This Way Comes" Antoni Careta i Vidal - "The Accusing Eye" Leonora Carrington - "The Hear...

Containing Matters concerning proper Disposal of vars. chemical Wastes. Timestamps: background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and discussion (16:18) Bibliography: Amazing Stories, July 1941 issue https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v15n07_1941-07_cape1736 Brackett, Leigh - "Meet the Authors", Amazing Stories, July 1941 Music: Sharplie, Gus - "Asteroid polka" (1883) htt...

Containing Matters in which the Highwayman assails his Celestial Neighbor. Timestamps: background, non-spoiler discussion, a reading (0:00) spoiler plot summary (49:36) spoiler general discussion (1:36:28) Bibliography: Amazing Stories, January 1931 https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v05n10_1931-01_Missing_ifc Server, Lee - "Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers" (2002) Williamson, Jack -...

Containing Matters pertaining to the Cadillac pulling out of the Graveyard. Timestamps: Minna Irving: various readings (0:00) - "Sea-Wind" (1937) - "Legend of the Moonflower" (1924) - "Via the Ouija Board" (1920) Irving background/non-spoiler discussion (6:09) plot summary and spoiler discussion (19:50) Bibliography: Amazing Stories, November 1929 issue https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_...

Containing matters pertaining to a Ruby, a Rocket and a Romance. Timestamps: background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary (38:26)  spoiler general discussion (1:49:00) Bibliography: Amazing Stories, August 1929 issue https://archive.org/details/AmazingStoriesVolume04Number05 Amazing Stories, September 1929 issue https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v04n06_1929-09_jvh-...

Containing matters pertaining to vars. Cylinders passing in a most novel Fashion through our Old Friend Atlantis (incl. the Ethics of such Voyages). Timestamps: Hansen bio/background and non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and discussion (24:15) Bibliography: Amazing Stories, November 1929 issue https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v04n08_1929-11_Missing_ifc-674ibcbc_AK Bleil...

Containing Matters pertaining to an extraordinary Publication that conducted its Business in Scientifiction and hitherto established a Forum to further the Discussion of Such. Timestamps: introduction, Amazing Stories history, genre discussion (0:00) H.G. Wells - "The New Accelerator" (1901) (1:02:15) Bibliography: Amazing Stories, April 1926 issue https://archive.org/details/amazing_stories_...

Containing matters pertaining to a direct Continuation of the previous. Timestamps: "The Thing Invisible" (1912) (0:00) "The Haunted Jarvee" (1929) (17:23) "The House Among the Laurels" (1910) (41:31) "The Searcher of the End House" (1910) (1:00:39) "The Find" (1947) (1:06:41) "The Hog" (1947) and other fanfiction (1:13:58)

Containing matters pertaining to the most novel Methods of Detection, Repulsion and Attraction, in which the practical Applications of the Edison Effect is Manifested for divers Purposes in Investigation. Timestamps: introductions (0:00) psychic/occult detective background (10:53) "The Gateway of the Monster" (1910) (29:19) "The Horse of the Invisible" (1910) (53:07) "The Whistling Room" (1910) (1...

Containing matters pertaining to several Remembrances of things Past after vars. Installments of Lost Time. Timestamps: background/non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and discussion (19:26) Bibliography: Joshi, S.T. - "I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft" (1996)

Containing matters in which vars. Experiments pertaining to Cranial Rejuvenation are performed by the Empire and the People. Timestamps: Carl Grunert - "Mr. Vivacius Style" (1908) (0:00) Alexander Belyaev - "Professor Dowell's Head" (1925) - background and non-spoiler discussion (28:45) "Professor Dowell's Head" spoiler summary and discussion (55:28) Bibliography: Andrienko, Anna - "The Unknown Al...

Containing matters in which the Frankenstein story is extrapolated from the Wolf, hitherto known as Wolfenstein. Timestamps: introductions (0:00) Olaf Stapledon biography/non-spoiler discussion (6:25) spoiler plot summary (24:42) general discussion (1:08:06) Bibliography: McCarthy, Patrick A. - "Olaf Stapledon" (1982) Moskowitz, Sam - "Far future calling: Uncollected science fiction and fantasies...

Containing matteres in which vars. Elements of the Skull are continued from the Previous part in a Fashion that includes the Metaphysical, the Mysterical and the Tragical. Timestamps: Amado Nervo - "The Soul Giver" (1899) (0:00) George Schuyler - "The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue" (1934) (40:00) Edward Page Mitchell - "Old Squids and Little Speller" (1885) (1:36:25) Bibliography: Canavan, Gerry and L...

In which the Best Friend of Man becomes the Best Friend of the Party. Timestamps: intro and neurology history (0:00) Mikhail Bulgakov biography (10:26) discussion and plot summary (33:11) Bibliography: Aminoff, Michael J., Boller, François, and Swaab, Dick F. (eds.) - Handbook Of Clinical Neurology, vol. 95, "History of Neurology" (2010) Andrusz, Gregory D. - "Housing and Urban Development in the...