Containing Matters of Cooking, Cleaning and Marriage.

Timestamps:

Elizabeth W. Bellamy - "Ely's Automatic Housemaid" (1899) (0:00)

Alice W. Fuller - "A Wife Manufactured to Order" (1895) (20:04)

Bibliography:

Ashley, Mike - "The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers" (2015)

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

Containing matters of Self-Replication.

Bibliography:

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction - "Karl Hans Strobl" https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/strobl_karl_hans

Schoolfield, George C. - "Young Rilke and His Time" (2009)

Strobl, Karl Hans - "My Debt to Books", Books Abroad vol. 13 no. 2, Spring 1939

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

Containing Matters concerning the Evolution of Inorganics towards a new Revolution.

Timestamps:

introductions, recent non-podcast reads (0:00)

historical background on computing and calculating machines, plus artificial intelligence (16:50)

Samuel Butler background/biography (34:45)

"Erewhon" discussion and summary (50:16)

Bibliography:

Boole, George - "Collected Logical Works" (1916) https://archive.org/details/collectedlogical02booluoft/mode/2up

Ceruzzi, Paul - "Inventing the Computer" https://ethw.org/Inventing_the_Computer

Columbia University Computing History - "The Jacquard Loom" http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/jacquard.html

Economist, the - "The Power of Seven", Dec 20th, 2001 http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/week.htm

Garnett, R.S. - "Samuel Butler and His Family Relations" (1926)

Harris, John F. - "Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon - The Man and His Work" (1916)

Hyman, Anthony - "Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer" (1982) https://archive.org/details/charlesbabbagepi0000hyma_j5s4/page/192/mode/2up

International Slide Rule Museum (ISRM) https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/

Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation - "Blaise Pascal: Pascaline Calculator" https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/blaise-pascal

Martin, Ernst - "The calculating machines (Die Rechenmaschinen): their history and development" (1925) https://archive.org/details/calculatingmachi00mart/mode/2up

Mudford, Peter - introduction and notes to "Erewhon" (1970)

Nagai, Toshiya - "Why Did Sumerians Use the Sexagesimal System?" (2013) https://www.nagaitoshiya.com/en/2013/sexagesimal/

Napier, John - "Rabdologiæ, seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo" (1617) https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/rabdologiaseunu00napi

Pugh, Emerson - "Early Punched Card Equipment, 1880-1951" https://ethw.org/Early_Punched_Card_Equipment,_1880_-_1951

Stephenson, Steve - "Ancient Computers" https://ethw.org/Ancient_Computers

Williams, Michael - "Differential Analyzers" https://ethw.org/Differential_Analyzers

Music:

Butler, Samuel - "Ulysses" (1904), as excerpted by John F. Harris in "Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon - The Man and His Work" (segment 2)

Handel, George Frideric - excerpted harpsichord suite from "Erewhon", chapter 5 (1733) (segment 3)

Containing Matters of an Aristocratic Prerogative.

Timestamps:

C.L. Moore background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler plot summary (26:39)

spoiler discussion, film adaptation (42:34)

Bibliography:

Del Rey, Lester - introduction to "The Best of C. L. Moore" (1977)

Moore, C.L. - "Footnote to ‘Shambleau’...and Others" in "The Best of C. L. Moore" (1975)

Science Fiction Bookclub - interview with Allen Muller on Kuttner and Moore (2019) https://middletownpubliclib.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Discussion-of-Kuttner.Moore-Aug-2019.pdf

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

Yaszek, Lisa - "The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women" (2018)

Containing Matters into which Realism is Introduced.

Timestamps:

Anderson background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler plot summary and discussion (19:38)

Bibliography:

Martin, Douglas - "Poul Anderson, Science Fiction Novelist, Dies at 74". The New York Times, August 3, 2001

Nevala-Lee, Alec - "Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction" (2018)

Shippey, Tom - "Science Fiction and the Idea of History" in "Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction" (2016)

Containing Matters which are best Discussed with Brandy.

Timestamps:

introductions, de Camp background (0:00)

non-spoiler discussion, historical background (42:02)

spoiler summary, discussion (1:12:09)

Bibliography:

Ashley, Mike and Tymn, Marshall - "Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines: (Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers)" (1985)

Cassiodorus - "The Letters of Cassiodorus" (6. c) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18590/pg18590-images.html

de Camp, L. Sprague - "Time and Chance: An Autobiography" (1996)

Hodgkin, Thomas - "Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation" (1897) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20063/pg20063-images.html

Hodgkin, Thomas - "Italy and Her Invaders" (1892) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Texts/HODIHI/home.html

Nevala-Lee, Alec - "Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction" (2018)

Pringle, David - "The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: The Definitive Illustrated Guide" (1996)

Procopius - "The Secret History of the Court of Justinian" (558) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12916/pg12916.html

Shippey, Tom - "Science Fiction and the Idea of History" in "Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction" (2016)

Stableford, Brian - "Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia" (2006)

Containing matters in which the Boss locates the Root of ills.

Timestamps:

introductions (0:00)

Mark Twain biography, background on Arthurian cycle (7:42)

non-spoiler discussion (1:09:44)

spoiler plot summary (1:27:38)

spoiler general discussion (2:59:28)

Bibliography:

Canavan, Gerry (ed.) - "The Cambridge History of Science Fiction" (2019)

Great Courses: King Arthur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDfHlZ3_LSY&list=PL0IAN1A2ENLxjsGLproWiknUfRq1fU22W

Loving, Jerome - "Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens" (2010)

Malory, Sir Thomas - "Le Morte D'Arthur" (original uncorrected text) https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:4?rgn=div1;view=toc

Powers, Rot - "Mark Twain: A Life" (2005) 

Scharnhorst, Gary - "The Life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years, 1871–1891" (2019)

Twain, Mark - "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" original 1889 printing https://archive.org/details/connecticutyanke1889twai

Music:

Webster, Joseph P. - "In the Sweet By-and-By" (1868) http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/i/n/t/s/intsbab.htm

Containing Matters in which the Past reaches the Present.

Timestamps:

introductions, Butler biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler plot summary (48:17)

spoiler general discussion, tv show discussion (1:57:58)

Bibliography:

Behrent, Megan -"The Personal is Historical: Slavery, Black Power, and Resistance in Octavia Butler's Kindred", College Literature, volume 46, issue 4 (2019)

Butler, Octavia E. - "Positive Obsession" in "Bloodchild and Other Stories" (1995)

Donaldson, Eileen - "A contested freedom: The fragile future of Octavia Butler's Kindred" English Academy Review, volume 31, issue 2 (2014)

Flagel, Nadine, “It's Almost Like Being There”: Speculative Fiction, Slave Narrative, and the Crisis of Representation in Octavia Butler's Kindred, Canadian Review of American Studies, volume 42, issue 2 (2012)

Francis, Conseula (ed.) - "Conversations with Octavia Butler" (2010)

Guha-Majumdar, Jishnu - "The Dilemmas of Hope and History: Concrete Utopianism in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred" Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, volume 6, issue 1 (2017)

Hua, Linh U. - "Reproducing Time, Reproducing History: Love and Black Feminist Sentimentality in Octavia Butler’s Kindred", African American Review, volume 44, issue 3 (2011)

LaCroix, David - "To Touch Solid Evidence: The Implicity of Past and Present in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred", The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, volume 40, issue 1 (2007)

Levecq, Christine - "Power and Repetition: Philosophies of (Literary) History in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred", Contemporary Literature, volume 41, issue 3 (2000)

Long, Lisa A. - "A Relative Pain: The Rape of History in Octavia Butler's Kindred and Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata", College English, volume 64, issue 4 (2002)

Miletic, Philip - "Octavia E. Butler’s Response to Black Arts/Black Power Literature and Rhetoric in Kindred" African American Review, volume 49, issue 3 (2016)

Mitchell, A. - "Not Enough of the Past Feminist Revisions of Slavery in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred", MELUS, volume 26, issue 3 (2001)

Octavia E. Butler official website https://www.octaviabutler.com/

Parham, Marisa - "Saying “Yes”: Textual Traumas in Octavia Butler’s Kindred", Callaloo, volume 32, issue 4 (2009)

Popescu, Irina - "Empathetic Trappings: Revisiting the Nineteenth Century in Octavia Butler's Kindred", Journal of Human Rights (2017)

Robertson, Benjamin - "Some Matching Strangeness: Biology, Politics, and the Embrace of History in Octavia Butler's Kindred", Science Fiction Studies, volume 37, issue 3 (2010)

Rowell, Charles H. and Butler, Octavia E. - "An Interview with Octavia E. Butler", Callaloo (1997)

Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. - "Families of Orphans: Relation and Disrelation in Octavia Butler's Kindred", College English, volume 55, issue 2 (1993)

West, C. S. Thembile - "The Competing Demands of Community Survival and Self-Preservation in Octavia Butler's Kindred", Femspec, volume 7, issue 2 (2006)

Containing matters concerning the Program Itself.

Timestamps:

recent non-podcast reads, podcast music (0:00)

bottom 3/top 5 of 2022 podcast titles (1:09:20)

an arbitrary imposed break/top 5 cont./2023 plans (1:52:05)

Works mentioned:

Agustina Bazterrica - "Tender is the Flesh"

Ray Bradbury - "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

Antoni Careta i Vidal - "The Accusing Eye"

Leonora Carrington - "The Hearing Trumpet"

Charles Dickens - "Our Mutual Friend"

George Eliot - "Middlemarch"

Stephen Graham Jones - "The Only Good Indians"

James Joyce - "Ulysses"

Gerald Kersh - "The Song of the Flea"

Jamaica Kincaid - "Annie John"

Lisa Koznak - unpublished manuscripts

Edward Lee - "City Infernal"

Brian Lumley - various short stories in  "Screaming Science Fiction"

Florence McLandburgh - "The Automaton Ear and other Stories"

Tayeb Salih - "Season of Migration to the North"

J.R.R. Tolkien - "The Lord of the Rings"

unknown - "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

Douglas E. Winter - "Run"

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