Chrononauts

Containing Matters of Binary Flashes and Semaphore Dashes.

Timestamps:

Gallun biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (30:27)

Bibliography:

Ashley, Mike - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp magazines From the Beginning to 1950" (2001)

Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998)

Davin, Eric Leif - "Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction Hardcover" (1999)

Pierce, J.J. - introduction to "The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun" (1978)

Tymn, Marshall B. and Ashley, Mike (eds.) - "Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction magazines" (1985)

Containing Matters of Romans and Confederates.

Timestamps:

Tremaine-era Astounding background, Murray Leinster background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (19:50)

Bibliography:

Ashley, Mike - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp magazines From the Beginning to 1950" (2001)

Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998)

Davin, Eric Leif - "Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction Hardcover" (1999)

Duncan, Andy - "It's All SF: Science Fiction, Southern Fiction, and the Case of Murray Leinster" (2000)

Science Fiction Book Club - "Interview with Steven Silver and Billee Stallings" (2022) https://middletownpubliclib.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Interview-about-Murray-Leinster-website.pdf

Tymn, Marshall B. Tymn and Ashley, Mike (eds.) - "Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction magazines" (1985)

Music:

Beck, Sam - "Neptune Rondo" (1845) https://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1845.050900.0?st=gallery

Containing Matters in which Proteus transforms the Species.

Timestamps:

Sophie Wenzel Ellis background and non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (24:42)

Bibliography:

Adams, M.B. - "The politics of human heredity in the USSR, 1920-1940" (1989)

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

Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998)

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

Gilbert, James B. - "Collectivism and Charles Steinmetz" (1974)

Music:

Dodge, Mr. & Mrs John Wilson - "Moon, Moon, Moon" (1910) https://www.loc.gov/resource/musm1508.10020387.0/

Containing Matters in which Mutton is a Joy to All.

Timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00)

Astounding Stories background, Captain S.P. Meek biography, non-spoiler discussion (14:52)

spoiler plot summary/spoiler discussion (39:06)

Bibliography:

Astounding Stories of Super Science, January 1930 issue https://archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930/asf1930-01/

Ashley, Mike - "The History of the Science Fiction Magazine - Part 1 (1926-1935)" (1976)

Ashley, Mike - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950" (2001)

Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998)

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

Music:

Robelen, Harry - "Pluto Polka" (1874) https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1874.04744/

In which the Heavens provide a Relax of the Mind.

Timestamps:

background on Italian science fiction (0:00)

Pestriniero biography and non-spoiler discussion (30:47)

spoiler summary and discussion, "Planet of the Vampires" discussion (44:54)

Bibliography:

Catalogo Vegetti della letteratura fantastica - "Renato Pestrinero" https://www.fantascienza.com/catalogo/autori/NILF14184/renato-pestriniero/

Edizioni Solfanelli - "Renato Pestriniero" https://www.edizionisolfanelli.it/renatopestriniero.htm

Delos Books - "A Mestre omaggio a Renato Pestriniero" (2008) https://www.fantascienza.com/11588/a-mestre-omaggio-a-renato-pestriniero

Saiber, Arielle - "Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction", California Italian studies, 2011

Brioni, Simone and Comberiati, Daniele - "Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film" (2019)

Lucas, Tim - "Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark" (2007)

Science Fiction Encyclopedia - "Italy" https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/italy

Containing Matters of Radium, Evolution and Revolution.

Timestamps:

Arelsky biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

"Professor Dagin's Observatory" spoiler summary/discussion 23:20

"Two Worlds" spoiler summary/discussion 36:35

"Towards a New Sun" spoiler summary/discussion 52:06

Bibliography:

Imperia Auctions, Auction 95, Lot 220, June 24, 2022 http://www.auction-imperia.ru/wdate.php?t=booklot&i=79580

Kons - "Stefan Graal Arelsky", Laboratory of Fantastika https://fantlab.ru/autor12055

Nikolskaya, T. L. - "Graal Arelsky: Biographical Information", Library of Maxim Moshkov, http://az.lib.ru/g/graalxarelxskij/text_1994_bio.shtml

Containing Matters which keep the Human race Preserved.

Timestamps:

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

Harry Martinson biography and non-spoiler discussion (17:46)

plot summary and spoiler discussion (48:08)

opera and film discusion (1:35:42)

Bibliography:

Generation Spaceship Project - text and notes of "Aniara" https://gsproject.edublogs.org/gs-texts/texts-used-in-2017/aniara-by-harry-martinson-3/

Johannesson, Eric O. - "Aniara: Poetry and the Poet in the Modern World" Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 4 (November, 1960)

Klass, Stephen - introduction to "Aniara" (1999)

Sjöberg, Leif - "Harry Martinson: From Vagabond to Space Explorer", Books Abroad, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Summer, 1974)

Sjöberg, Leif - translator's note to "Aniara" (1999)

Smith, William Jay and Sjöberg, Leif - "On Harry Martinson", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (July/August 1985)

Titelman, David - "On Nomadic Shores Inward - Harry Martinson’s Journey to Late-Life Suicide", The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 90:2, 2021

Vowles, Richard Beckman - "Harry Martinson, Sweden's Seaman-Poet", Books Abroad, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Autumn, 1951)

Containing Matters in which the Toys play Poorly.

Timestamps:

O'Brien background and non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

plot summary and spoiler discussion (20:52)

Bibliography:

Hoppenstand, Gary - "Robots of the Past: Fitz-James O'Brien's 'The Wondersmith'", the Journal of Popular Culture, Spring 1994

Containing Matters in which Benefit the Working and the Leisure Classes.

Timestamps:

Volodymyr Vladko - "The Defeat of Jonathan Govers" (1929) (0:00)

Edward Page Mitchell - "The Ablest Man in the World" (1879) (37:46)

Bibliography:

Karatsupa, Vitaly - "Vladko, Volodymyr Mikolaiovich", Archive of Fantastika, http://archivsf.narod.ru/1900/vladimir_vladko/index.htm

Laboratory of Fantastika - "Volodymyr Vladko", https://fantlab.ru/autor2735

Containing Matters in which the Tragedy and the Comedy of the Mechanized Worker is Performed.

Timestamps:

Karel Čapek biography/non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler plot summary/discussion (46:25)

Bibliography:

Klíma - Ivan - "Karel Čapek: Life and Work" (2002)

Kussi, Peter (ed.) - "Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Čapek Reader" (1990)