Chrononauts

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 Birth of Science Fiction" (2006)

Grayson, Perry M. - "Frank Belknap Long Jr.: Fantasist of Multiple Dimensions" https://web.archive.org/web/20040608205059/http://www.thevine.net/~fortress/fblhist.htm

Ricca, Brad "Meet the Reclusive Woman Who Became a Pioneer of Science Fiction", introduction to "The Artificial Man and Other Stories" https://lithub.com/meet-the-reclusive-woman-who-became-a-pioneer-of-science-fiction/

Music:

Taylor, Raymond - "A Signal From Mars", https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100003548

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 Influential Pulp Career of Francis Stevens", Dec 19, 2013, Kirkus https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/influential-pulp-career-francis-stevens/

Nemo, August - introduction to "The Woman Who Invented Dark Fantasy" (2019)

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-encyclopedia.com/entry/weird_tales

Joshi, S.T - "The Weird Tale" (1990)

Joshi, S.T. - "I am Providence - The Life and times of H. P. Lovecraft" (2013)

Lovecraft, H.P. - "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927)

Poole, W. Scott - "In the Mountains of madness - the Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft" (2016)

VanderMeer, Ann and Jeff (eds.) - "The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories" (2012)

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 Hodgson" blog, https://williamhopehodgson.wordpress.com/

Historic Headlines podcast, https://historicheadlines.podbean.com/

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 Captain of the Pole-Star" (1890) (54:01)

Bibliography:

Ashley, Mike (ed.) - "The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women" (2011)

Daly, Liza - "Always fond of the marvelous: The hidden history of Anna Adolph" https://lizadaly.com/pages/arqtiq/

Hartwell, David (ed.) - "Foundations of Fear" (1992)

Nevins, Jess - "The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana" (2020)

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 Antarctic" (2018)

Kennedy, J. Gerald - "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and the Abyss of Interpretation" (1994)

Kopley, Richard - "The Secret of Arthur Gordon Pym - The Text and the Source" (1980)

McCannon, John - "A history of the Arctic nature, exploration and exploitation" (2012)

Standish, David - "Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface" (2005)

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 Journal of Commonwealth Literature, November 2020

Langer, Jessica - "Postcolonialism and Science Fiction"

Rieder, John - "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction"

Sengupta, Debjani - "Sadhanbabu’s Friends: Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882 to 1974" in "Science fiction, imperialism and the Third World: essays on postcolonial literature and film" (eds. Ericka Hoagland, Reema Sarwal)