Chrononauts

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. 2/3, Alternative Archaeology (2012),

Searles, A. Langley, introduction to "Edison's Conquest of Mars", Carcosa House ed. (1947)

Music:

"Electric Sparks" (interlude 2), composed by Charles Gimbel Jr., 1872 https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1872.05600/

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:

Bleiler, Everett F. - "Science Fiction: The Early Years: A Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science Fiction Stories", 1990

Canavan, Gerry, and Link, Eric Carl  - "The Cambridge History of Science Fiction", 2019

Nevins, Jess - "The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana", second ed. 2020

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 the Young Inventor's Trip to the Far West" (1892?) (30:14)

Bibliography:

Backstory Radio, conversation with Paul Israel and Bernard Carlson, 2018 https://www.backstoryradio.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2018/03/2_23_FirstDraft_MASTER_1.pdf

Bleiler, Everett F. - "Science Fiction: The Early Years: A Full Description of More Than 3,000 Science Fiction Stories", 1990

Canavan, Gerry, and Link, Eric Carl  - "The Cambridge History of Science Fiction", 2019

Carlson, Bernard - "Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age", 2015

Israel, Paul - "Edison: A Life of Invention", 2000

Nevins, Jess - "The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana", second ed. 2020

Stross, Randall E. - "The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World", 2008

Music:

"Electric Schottisch", composed by Jean Richter, 1872, https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1872.11807/

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 Breather" (1939) (1:01:31)

Bibliography:

Coe, Lewis - "Wirelss Radio, A Brief History", 1996

Music:

"Telegraph Polka" (interlude 2) composed by Charles Voss, 1900 https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/5671?show=full

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-mechanical Romance"

- Ralph Pope - "$1,000 Reward — My Foot Race with a Telegram"

- Henry Van Hoevenbergh - "Into the Jaws of Death, A Telegraph Operator's Story"

Henry James - "In the Cage" (1898) (50:29)

Clarín - "Goodbye, Lamb!" (1893) (1:31:32)

Bibliography:

Coe, Lewis - "The Telegraph, A History of Morse's Invention and its Predecessors in the United States", 1993

Estreich, Bob - "Antonio Meucci", Bob's Old Phones, http://www.telephonecollecting.org/Bobs%20phones/Pages/Essays/Meucci/Meucci.htm

Goble, Mark - "Beautiful circuits: modernism and the mediated life", 2010

Goble, Mark - "Wired Love: Pleasure at a Distance in Henry James and Others", ELH (English Literary History), Volume 74, Number 2, Summer 2007

Gregory's Mechanics - "History of the Telegraph", 1828

Liffen, John - "The Introduction of the Electric Telegraph in Britain, a Reappraisal of the Work of Cooke and Wheatstone", The International Journal for the History of Engineering & Technology, Volume 80, Number 2, Jul. 2010

"Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes", 1877 edition https://www.google.com/books/edition/Lightning_Flashes_and_Electric_Dashes/hW8oAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

"Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes", 1882 edition https://books.google.com/books/about/Lightning_Flashes_and_Electric_Dashes.html?id=0bFEAQAAMAAJ

Otis, Laura Christine - "Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century", 2001

Schwantes, Benjamin Sidney Michael - "The Train And The Telegraph: A Revisionist History", 2019

Schöberlein, Stefan - "Call Me Maybe: Telephonic Romances and the Female Voice, 1880–1920", American Literary Realism, Volume 51, Number 1, Fall 2018

Schöberlein, Stefan - "Tapping the Wire: A Telegraphic Discourse", American Literature, Volume 88, Number 2, June 2016

Music and poetry:

"Postal Telegraph Quick Service March" (interlude 1) composed by J. Adler, 1894. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100000271/

"By Telegraph" (interlude 3), anonymous, from "Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes"

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 Georgievich Mikhailovsky - "The Genius" (1901) (1:03:10)

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer - "The Sirdar's Chess-Board" (1885) (1:18:06)

Bibliography:

Carper, Steve. Flying Cars and Food Pills. commentary on "Silas Cornu's Dry Calculator". https://www.flyingcarsandfoodpills.com/silas-p-cornu-s-dry-calculator

Fundamental Electronic Library. "Garin, N." http://www.feb-web.ru/feb/kle/kle-abc/ke2/ke2-0663.htm?cmd=p&istext=1 (in Russian)

Garin, Mikhailovsky, N.G. "Collected works in five volumes." (in Russian)

Gorky, Maxim. "About Garin Mikhailovsky" https://web.archive.org/web/20060516223250/http://www.maximgorkiy.narod.ru/garin-m.htm (in Russian)

Kasman, Alex. "The Sirdar's Chess Board" https://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf630

Kaylin, Jeff. Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. http://wilkinsfreeman.info/

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, Mark. "The King of Charisma", The New York Review, May 10, 2012. https://nybooks.com/articles/2012/05/10/alfred-jarry-king-charisma/

Glenn, Josh. "Radium Age (Proto-)Sci-fi: 100 Best" https://www.hilobrow.com/radium-age-100/

Kasman, Alex. Mathematican Fiction: https://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/

Shattuck, Roger and Taylor, Simon Watson. Introduction and notes to "Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician", Exact Change (1996)

Struik, Dirk J. Struik. "Concise History of Mathematics, Volume II: The Seventeenth Century - The Nineteenth Century" (1948)

In which the ancient lost City related by Plato is Discovered by means of Ingenuity and Explored by means of the Spirit.

Timestamps:

background, plot summary (0:00)

general discussion (33:31)

Bibliography:

The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia: "Complete Works" https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Sir_Arthur_Conan_Doyle:Complete_Works#All_fictions

In which the Ascent of the Rising Sun is marked by the Descent of the Lightning.

Timestamps:

background, plot summary (0:00)

general discussion, adaptations (46:12)

Bibliography:

Blackwood, T. "Bushido Baseball? Three 'Fathers' and the Invention of a Tradition". Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 11, issue 2, 2008.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, "Oshikawa Shunrō" http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/oshikawa_shunro

Matthew, Robert. "Japanese Science Fiction: A View of a Changing Society", 1989

Tama Cemetery, bio of Kiyoshi Oshikawa (in Japanese) http://www6.plala.or.jp/guti/cemetery/PERSON/A/oshikawa_k.html