Chrononauts

Chrononauts

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Chrononauts episodes

  • W.C. Morrow - "The Monster Maker" (1887) | Chrononauts Episode 45.4

    Containing Matters of Malpractice.


    Bibliography:

    Joshi, S.T. - "The Evolution of the Weird Tale" (2004)

    Mobile, AL First National Bank - "Highlights of 75 Years in Mobile" (1940) https://archive.org/download/75yearsinmobile/75yearsinmobile.pdf

    Morrow, W.C. - "Some Queer Experiences" (1891) https://archive.org/details/1891somequeerexperiencesmorrowargonaut

    Moskowitz, Sam - "Forgotten Master of Horror - The First Phase" in "Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I" (1992)


    26 min
  • Ronald Ross - "The Vivisector Vivisected" (1882) | Chrononauts Episode 45.3

    Containing Matters of Fluidics.


    Bibliography:

    Haining, Peter - biography on Ronald Ross from "The Monster Makers" anthology (1974)

    Nobel Prize and Laureates - "Ronald Ross" https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1902/ross/biographical/

    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - "Biography of Sir Ronald Ross" https://web.archive.org/web/20140202111525/http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/ross/biography/

    Sinden, Robert E. - "Malaria, mosquitoes and the legacy of Ronald Ross", Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007 Nov; 85(11): 894–896

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636258/


    21 min
  • H.G. Wells - "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896) | Chrononauts Episode 45.2

    Containing Matters of Mammals.


    Timestamps:

    non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

    spoiler plot summary and discussion (22:18)

    general discussion and film adaptaions (1:08:13)


    Bibliography:

    Philmus, Robert (ed.) - "The Island of Doctor Moreau: a variorum text" (1993)

    Rieder, John - "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" (2008)

    Sherborne, Michael - "H.G. Wells: Another Kind of Life" (1988)

    Shippey, Tom - "Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction" (2016)

    Music:

    Heiné, Joseph - "Madeira polka" (1874) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023820380

    1 hr 39 min
  • H.G. Wells - "Under the Knife" (1896) | Chrononauts Episode 45.1

    Containing Matters of Morphine.


    Timestamps:

    introductions, recent reads (0:00)

    general discussion on the legacy of "Frankenstein" (15:25)

    "Under the Knife" discussion (25:55)


    Bibliography:

    Gaping Blackbird - "The Purple Pileus" https://gapingblackbird.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/the-purple-pileus-by-h-g-wells

    Haining, Peter - introduction to "The Monster Makers" anthology (1974)

    various articles from "The dental and surgical microcosm" (1891-1893) https://archive.org/details/dentalsurgicalmi03na/mode/2up


    Music:

    Dayton, J. - "The Mary Jane Polka" (1857) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023811721/

    43 min
  • David H. Keller, MD - "Unto Us a Child is Born" (1933) | Chrononauts Episode 44.1

    Containing the matter of the Junior Philosopher.


    Timestamps:


    introductions, recent non-podcast reads, general discussion of the concept of "the family" (0:00)

    David H. Keller, MD background, non-spoiler discussion (29:51)

    plot summary and spoiler discussion (51:41)


    Bibliography:

    Hicks, Mar - "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order Through Early Computer Dating Systems" (2016)

    Lehmann-Haupt, Rachel - "Reconceptions: Modern Relationships, Reproductive Science, and the Unfolding Future of Family" (2023)

    Moskowitz, Sam - introduction to "Life Everlasting and Other Tales of Science, Fantasy and Horror" (1947)


    1 hr 7 min
  • Anna Barkova - "A Steel Husband" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.5

    Containing Matters of an Organic System of Movement


    Music:

    Valiashchik, Leon - "Elektro-Miss, or; the Electric Girl Fox-Trot" (c. 1920s) https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog/cf95jf74s


    Bibliography:

    Fedotova, Margarita and Taganov, Leonid - introduction to "Eight Chapters of Madness" anthology https://royallib.com/read/barkova_anna/vosem_glav_bezumiya_proza_dnevniki.html#0

    Germanovna Kachalova Larisa - "The work of Anna Aleksandrovna Barkova from the 1920s to early 1930s, in the cultural paradigm of the era" https://www.dslib.net/russkaja-literatura/tvorchestvo-anny-aleksandrovny-barkovoj-1920-h-nachala-1930-h-godov-v-kulturnoj.html

    Laboratory of Fantastika - "Anna Barkova" https://fantlab.ru/autor6656

    Lieberman, Hallie - "Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy" (2017)

    Maines, Rachel P. - "The technology of orgasm: hysteria, the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction" (1998)

    Vilensky, Simeon (ed) - "Till my tale is told: women's memoirs of the Gulag" (1999) https://archive.org/details/tillmytaleistold0000unse


    55 min

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A science fiction literature history podcast, covering popular and obscure works. Contains spoilers for all works discussed.

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