Chrononauts

Containing Matters in which vars. Points converge upon the Watery Part of the World. Timestamps: bio, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary/discussion (18:30) Bibliography: Blacklock, Mark - "The four-dimensional life of mathematician Charles Howard Hinton", BBC Science Focus, May 7, 2020 https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/the-four-dimensional-life-of-mathematician-charles-howard-hi...

Containing Matters pertaining to divers Calculations with particular Respect to the Dimensions most commonly labelled Three and Four. Timestamps: Algernon Blackwood - "The Pikestaffe Case" (1924) (0:00) Paul Scheerbart - "Malvu the Helmsman: A Story of Vesta" (1912) (39:22) Bibliography: Cardin, Matt - "Blackwood, Algernon" in "Horror Literature Through History: An Encyclopedia of the Stories That...

Containing Matters pertaining to vars. Doors (which perhaps should be Examined by Those holding relevant Expertise). Timestamps: introduction (0:00) a reading of "Grief", from "The House on the Borderland" (10:59) non-spoiler discussion (13:57) plot summary (27:04) general spoiler discussion (1:30:33)

Containing Matters which Pertain to the Concealment of Persons in an extramartian Environment henceforth engaged to certain Purposes. Timestamps: Carl Grunert - "The Martian Spy" (1908) (0:00) Clare Winger Harris - "The Fate of the Poseidonia" (1927) (22:06) Bibliography: Amazing Stories, June 1927 issue https://archive.org/details/Amazing_Stories_v02n03_1927-06_015/mode/2up Ashley, Mike and Tymn,...

Containing Matters conserning vars. Surveillances and other issues of Sensitivity which have been Taken into Confidence by Gosudarstvickal Bodies appearing in divers Forms hitherto Considered pre-dating Bond. Timestamps: introduction, spy fiction background (0:00) Helen MacInnes - "Above Suspicion" (1941) (34:38) Arthur Morrison - "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo" (1894) (1:35:54) Bibliography: BBC...

Containing Matters concerning novel Methods of Destruction, some benefiting the Kaiser, others benefiting None. Timestamps: Leopoldo Lugones - "The Omega Force" (1906) (0:00) Joel Martin Nichols, Jr. - "The Devil-Ray" (1926) (19:03) Bibliography: Ferreira, Rachel Haywood - "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction" (2011) Flores, Angel - "Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction", Hispan...

Containing Matters in which Technology is Advanced much to the Detractment of Humanity. Timestamps: introduction (0:00) George Tomkyns Chesney - "The Battle of Dorking" (1871) (6:44) Skelton Kuppord - "A Fortune From the Sky" (1903) (47:58) Bibliography: Clarke, I.F. - "The Battle of Dorking, 1871-1914", Victorian Studies , Jun., 1965, Vol. 8, No. 4 (Jun., 1965), pp. 309-328 Clarke, I.F. - "Before...

Containing Matters In which Angled Dimensions are Traversed via means of Psychedelics, and in which the Physical Dimensions are Traversed by means of Other Dimensions hitherto previously Mentioned. Timestamps: Frank Belknap Long - "The Hounds of Tindalos" (1929) (0:00) Clare Winger Harris - "A Runaway World" (1926) (24:25) Bibliography:  Davin, Eric Leif - "Partners in wonder: Women and the B...

In which the Schoolteacher's Instruction in Latin and Crystal is found to be Quite Excellent. Timestamps: background, plot summary (0:00) general discussion (36:55) Bibiliography: Monteiro, António - "Ghosts, Fear, and Parallel Worlds: The Supernatural Fiction of Jean Ray", added to the Weird Fiction Review in 2011, from a transcript of a talk given in 1999

Containing Matters in which vars. Elders take an Interest in Petrology. Timestamps: Francis Stevens - "Claimed!" (1920) (0:00) Nictzin Dyalhis - "The Sea-Witch" (1937) (47:26) Bibliography: Davin, Eric Leif - "Partners in wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction" (2006) Hoppenstand, Gary - introduction to "The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy" (2004) Liptak, Andrew - "The Influentia...

In which the Consumer is Consumed by the Tin of Kippered Herring. Timestamps: introduction, background on weird fiction and Weird Tales (0:00) H.P. Lovecraft - "Dagon" (1917) (33:29) Bibliography: Ashley, Mike - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950" (2001) Ashley, Mike - "Weird Tales" entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, https://sf...

Containing matters in which One is expelled from the Paradise of Bristol and Lands unto a Puritan Monster. Timestamps: background, plot summary (0:00) general discussion (47:55) Bibliography: Lamb, Hugh and Rainer, Frank - Epilogue to the 1991 German edition of "Medusa"

Concerning two Species of Fungus which have proven to be Inedible (despite how much We wish it to be So) Timestamps: William Hope Hodgson - "Shoon of the Dead" (1908) - a reading (0:00) introduction, William Hope Hodgson biography (3:58) William Hope Hodgson - "The Voice in the Night" (1907) (28:33) William Hope Hodgson - "The Derelict" (1912) (45:29) Bibliography: Gafford, Sam, "William Hope Hodg...

Containing matters related to the incredible Fantasies of the Mind, and compulsive Obsessions beckoning Perpendicular to the East. Timestamps: Anna Adolph - "Arqtiq: A Story of the Marvels at the North Pole" (1899) (0:00) Harriet Prescott Spofford - "The Moonstone Mass" (1868) - a reading (26:30) Harriet Prescott Spofford - "The Moonstone Mass" (1868) - discussion (30:43) Arthur Conan Doyle - "The...

Containing matters in which a Continuation is written by an Admirerer (though in a Fashion not at all Indulgent). Timestamps: background, plot summary (0:00) general discussion (59:51) Bibliography: Butcher, William - "Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography" (2006) Walter, Frederick Paul - notes and appendices to "The sphinx of the ice realm", State University of New York Press (2012)

Containing matters in which the Picaresque undulates via Grampusical Pendulum through the Robinsonade, Lost Race and Weird. Timestamps: introductions (0:00) plot summary (3:36) general discussion (59:17) Bibliography: Bailey, James Osler - "Pilgrims through space and time: trends and patterns in scientific and utopian fiction" (1972) Haddelsey, Stephen - "Icy Graves: Exploration and Death in the A...

In which Introductions to a new Host are made, Issues posed by a Reader are answered and recent Media commented upon. Timestamps: an arbitrary break (55:41) Bibliography: Bowers, Maggie Ann - "Magic(al) Realism" Flores, Angel - "Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction", Hispania vol. 38 iss. 2, 1955 Hoene, Christin - "Jagadish Chandra Bose and the anticolonial politics of science fiction", The...

Containing matters pertaining to a Counter-invasion in which vars. Social matters are Discarded in favor of Scientific Speculation and Patriotism. Timestamps: background (0:00) plot summary (10:30) general discussion (1:13:24) Bibliography: Crossley, Robert - "Imagining Mars: A Literary History" (2011) Richter, Jonas - "Traces of the Gods: Ancient Astronauts as a Vision of Our Future", Vol. 59, No...

Containing matters pertaining to a Voyage most similar to the Well-Revered Nautilus and the Guardianship of a  Mine by a Dromedary whose Encumberance has been exceeded. Timestamps: Philip Reade - "Tom Edison, jr.'s Electric Sea Spider; or, the Wizard of the Submarine World" (1892) (0:00) Robert Toombs - "Electric Bob's Big Black Ostrich; or, Lost on the Desert" (1893) (26:59) Bibliography: Bl...

Concerning matters pertaining to the Construction of an Inventor, from whom vars. Creations are developed in most ingenious Fashions, and the several Instances we are able find of Such in those not altogether pleasant Publications which are Most-oft found by Rail. Timestamps: Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla background (0:00) The Edisonade, Luis Senarens - "Frank Reade Jr., and His New Steam Man, or...

Containing Matters pertaining to the Wireless Telegraph, through which the Transmittance of a partickular Mode of electro-magnetic Radiation could be used to Indicate certain Spectra of Meaning. Timestamps: radio background, Rudyard Kipling - "Wireless" (1902) (0:00) Margaret Penrose - "The Radio Girls of Roselawn; or, A Strange Message from the Air" (1922) (27:21) Theodore Sturgeon - "Ether Breat...

Containing matters pertaining to that excellent Signalling Device which most nobly Sounded in a New Age of Communication, approaching thus the Speed of Light, with vars. Applications from the Military to the Personal. Timestamps: introduction, history of the telegraph and telephone (0:00) Selections from "Lighting Flashes and Electric Dashes": (1877) (18:39) - Charles Barnard - "Kate - An Electro-...

Concerning life in two Dimensions and how its Residents hitherto conduct their Lives. Timestamps: excerpt from chapter 16 - a reading (0:00) background/summary/discussion (3:04) excerpt from chapter 19 - a reading (27:30) summary/discussion continues (38:30)

Containing Matters which pertain to Brevity in approaching vars. Aspects of the mathematical Discipline, including novel Solutions to Problems, ethical Concerns and Methods of Discovery.  Timestamps: Edward Page Mitchell - "The Tachypomp" (1874) (0:00) Henry A. Hering - "Silas P. Cornu's Dry Calculator" (1898) (17:03) Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - "An Old Arithmetician" (1885) (35:25) Nikolai Geo...

Concerning Matters related to the Foundational system of Mathematics and its recent Progressions, with a Focus on the Science of Imaginary Solutions. Timestamps: introduction, mathematics background (0:00) Alfred Jarry biography and background (9:12) Alfred Jarry - "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician" (1898) (23:01) Bibliography:  Fell, Jill. "Alfred Jarry" (2010) Ford, Mar...