Chrononauts

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 of Olaf Stapledon" (1974)

Swanson, Roy Arthur - "The Spiritual Factor in Odd John and Sirius", Science Fiction Studies Vol. 9, No. 3, The Science Fiction of Olaf Stapledon (Nov., 1982)

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 Link, Eric Carl - "The Cambridge History of Science Fiction" (2019) 

Delany, Samuel R - "Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction and Some Comics - A Collection of Written Interviews" (1994)

Dery, Mark - "Black to the Future: Interviews with Samuel R. Delany, Greg Tate and Tricia Rose", in "Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture" (1994)

Ferreira, Rachel Haywood - "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction" (2011)

Jet Magazine, December 11, 1952, page 45

Kim, Myungsung - "Afrofuturism, Science Fiction, and the Reinvention of African American Culture" (2017)

Hefner, Brooks E. - "Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow" (2021)

Schuyler, George - "Black and Conservative" (1966)

Syracuse University, George S. Schuyler Papers paper index and biography https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/s/schuyler_gs.htm

Villoro, Juan - "The Transmigration of Desire: The Soul-Giver of Amado Nervo", in original Spanish text of "The Soul Giver" at "La Novela Corta" (2017), https://www.lanovelacorta.com/novelas-en-transito/el-donador-de-almas.pdf (in Spanish)

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 USSR" (1984)

Lakshin, Vladimir - "Bulgakov's Fate: Fact And Fiction" (1990)

Milne, Lesley (ed.) "Bulgakov: The Novelist-Playwright" (1995)

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-hinton/

Clarke, Bruce - "A Scientific Romance: Thermodynamics and the Fourth Dimension in Charles Howard Hinton's 'The Persian King'" Weber: The Contemporary West, Vol. 14.1, Winter 1997 https://www.weber.edu/weberjournal/Journal_Archives/Archive_B/Vol_14_1/BClarkeEss.html

Graham, Elyse - "Charles Howard Hinton: He Wrote Science Fiction Before the Genre Existed", Princeton Alumni Weekly, November 13, 2019 https://paw.princeton.edu/article/charles-howard-hinton-he-wrote-science-fiction-genre-existed

Rucker, Rudy - introduction to "Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of Charles H. Hinton" (1980) https://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/rucker_charles_hinton_intro.pdf

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 Speak to Our Deepest Fears" (2017)

McElheny, Josiah and Burgin, Christine (eds.) - "Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!: A Paul Scheerbart Reader"

Moose, Kate "Horror in the Shadows" (2007) https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/27/featuresreviews.guardianreview32

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

Vandermeer, Jeff and Ann (eds.) - "The Big Book of Science Fiction" (2016)

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, Marshall B. - "Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines" (1985)

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

Rottensteiner, Franz - introduction to "The Martian Spy" in "The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany & Austria" (2008)

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 Radio, Scotland FM - "Helen MacInnes, Queen of Spies" (2017)  https://archive.org/details/BBC_Radio_Scotland_FM_20170101_070000_Helen_MacInnes_Queen_of_Spies

Bold, Christine - "Secret negotiations: The Spy figure in Nineteenth‐century American popular fiction" in "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

Hiley, Nicholas - "Decoding German Spies: British Spy Fiction, 1908-18" in "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

Homberger, Eric - "English Spy Thrillers in the Age of Appeasement" in "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

Lassner, Phyllis - "Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film" (2016)

Miles, Peter "A Child of the Jago: Chronology of Arthur Morrison" (2012)

Morrison, Kate "Morality and the Law in British Detective and Spy Fiction, 1880–1920" (2020)

Stafford, David - "The Silent Game: The Real World of Imaginary Spies" (1988)

Goodman, Sam - "British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire" (2015)

Trotter, David - "The Politics of Adventure in the Early British Spy Novel" in "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

Wark, Wesley K. - introduction to "Spy Fiction, Spy Films and Real Intelligence" (ed. Wesley K. Wark) (1991)

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", Hispania vol. 38 iss. 2, 1955

Hanley, Terence E. - "Joel Martin Nichols, Jr. (1895-1991)", Tellers of Weird Tales, https://tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2011/08/joel-martin-nichols-jr.html

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 and after 'The Battle of Dorking'", Science Fiction Studies Vol. 24, No. 1, Mar., 1997, pp. 33-46

Earnshaw, James - "‘The Battle of Dorking’ and Combat Trauma", Journal of Victorian Culture Online, https://jvc.oup.com/2022/02/10/the-battle-of-dorking-and-combat-trauma/

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - "Skelton Kuppord", https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/kuppord_skelton

The University of Glasgow - "Sir John Adams", https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH7485&type=P