Chrononauts

Chrononauts

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Chrononauts episodes

  • Leigh Brackett - "No Man's Land in Space" (1941) | Chrononauts Episode 31.6

    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) https://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1883.15920.0

    1 hr 11 min
  • Jack Williamson - "The Prince of Space" (1931) | Chrononauts Episode 31.5

    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 - "Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction" (1984)

    Williamson, Jack - essays in "The Early Williamson" (1975)


    Music:

    Hern, Herrman - "The Comet Polka" (1857) https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1857.340930/

    2 hr 4 min
  • Minna Irving - "The Moon Woman" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 31.4

    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_v04n08_1929-11_Missing_ifc-674ibcbc_AK

    Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998)

    The Daily Times, Mamaroneck, New York, August 2, 1962, page 12.

    Hanley, Terence E. "Minna Irving" (2022) https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2017/04/minna-irving-1857-1940.html

    "Minna Irving Upholds History", New York Sun, October 9, 1894, page 6.

    obituary, New York Times, July 7, 1940.

    Times-Democrat of New Orleans, January 17, 1909, page 27.

    "On the War Path", Yonkers Statesman, December 1, 1885, page 3.


    Music:

    Woolf, Edward - "Mercury Polka" (1851) https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1851.150610/ For Ralph.

    45 min
  • Leslie F. Stone - "Out of the Void" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 31.3

    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-sas

    Davin, Eric Leif - "Partners in wonder - Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965" (2005)

    Jerry eBooks - introduction to "Leslie F. Stone Collected Tales" (2020)


    Music:

    Davis, Auguste - "Neptune Mazurka" (1874) https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1874.14975/

    2 hr 16 min
  • Lucile Taylor Hansen - "The Undersea Tube" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 31.2

    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

    Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998)

    Davin, Eric Leif - "Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965" (2005)

    Yaszek, Lisa - "Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction" (2016)


    Music: 

    Sousa, John Philip - "Transit of Venus March" (1894) https://www.loc.gov/resource/ihas.100010997.0

    58 min
  • Hugo Gernsback, Amazing Stories and H.G. Wells' "New Accelerator" | Chrononauts Episode 31.1

    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_april_1926

    Ashley, Michael - "The History of the Science Fiction Magazine - Part 1 (1926-1935)" (1977)

    Ashley, Michael - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950" (2001)

    Perry, Thomas - "An Amazing Story: Experimenter in Bankruptcy", Amazing Stories, May 1978

    "A History of Science Fiction Criticism: Collective Works Cited and Chronological Bibliography", Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Jul., 1999), pp. 263-283

    World Radio History, "Hugo Gernsback Library" https://worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Bookshelf_Gernsback.htm


    Music:

    Dister, Valentine - "Saturn Polka Mazurka", 1872 https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1872.10507/

    1 hr 42 min
  • William Hope Hodgson - "Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder", pt. 1 | Chrononauts Episode 30.1

    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) (1:14:09)


    Bibliography:

    Announcement and Warning regarding "The Whistling Room" https://williamhopehodgson.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/carnacki-3-the-whistling-room/

    Ashley, Mike - "Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories" (2020)

    Gustainis, Justin - "Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives" (2011)

    Prasil, Tim - "The Chronological Bibliography of Early Occult Detectives – 1800s" https://brombonesbooks.com/for-fun/the-chronological-bibliography-of-early-occult-detectives/

    1 hr 42 min
  • Reanimated Severed Heads | Chrononauts Episode 29.2

    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 Alexander Belyaev" (2012)

    Banerjee, Anindita (ed.) - "Russian Science Fiction Literature And Cinema: A Critical Reader" (2018)

    Bar-Sella, Zeev - "Alexander Belyaev" (2013)

    Krementsov, Nikolai - "Off with your heads: isolated organs in early Soviet science and fiction", Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, June 2009

    O'Brien, Frank - "The Story of the Sun, 1833-1918" (1918)

    Rottensteiner, Franz (ed.) "The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria" (2008)

    1 hr 46 min

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