Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go to 2010 and 1995, and we have a new co-host Marianne! Our first story is "The Books" by Kage Baker, a fun romp about circus kids who kill an old man in a post-apocalyptic library and our second story is "Elegy" by Mary Rosenblum and is about a neurosurgeon with maybe alzheimers who can telepathically communicate with squid (maybe).

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

"The Books" by Kage Baker (2010)

"Elegy" by Mary Rosenblum (1995)

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - Recap music

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go to 2017 to read an excellent story, “What Cheer” by RJ Edwards. A young trans woman named Addie finds a strange walnut sized seed in the park which then grows rapidly and from it an alien emerges. They hang out for 29 hours as the alien gets to know Earth and Addie learns a bit more about herself. 

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“What Cheer” by RJ Edwards

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - Lightspeed recap music

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go to the distinctly sub par year of 2016 to read an excellent story, “The Shape of My Name” by Nino Cipri. This is a time travel story centred around a trans man named Heron and their relationship with their non-accepting mom who abandoned them at the age of 12. That sounds really heavy, but the podcast episode isn’t. We also try out a new end segment where we talk about our various obsessions.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“The Shape of My Name” by Nino Cipri from Transcendent: the Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Race Sewage - Lightspeed recap music

Closer by the Chainsmokers

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go to the year 1972 (the gayest year?) to read “When it Changed” by Joanna Russ. In a world, where there has only been women for the last 30 generations, some men show up and are a bunch of condescending jerks. Featuring, a cool duellist, bad Russian, a sense of visceral disgust at the sight of a man and a deep and justified sense of impending doom, also it’s hella gay for Pride month.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“When it Changed” by Joanna Russ

https://boblyman.net/englt392/texts/When%20It%20Changed.pdf

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Rocketman by Elton John

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go to Sweden in the year 2012 to read “Beatrice” by Karin Tidbeck. A man falls in love with an airship, a woman falls in a love with a semi-portable steam engine, through a real estate mix up they have to share the same warehouse, it’s the new hit sitcom/ depressing piece of Swedish science fiction.

Content warning for non-consensual relationship.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

"Beatrice" by Karin Tidbeck from the collection Jagannath 

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Euphoria by Loreen

Bedroom Eyes from Freebeats.io

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go back to the year 1934 to read “Sidewise in Time” by  Murray Leinster. A mere mathematics professor kidnaps 7 students and takes them through a rift in time to who knows what end. We also go on a long digression about bank robbing in the 1930s and the evil Edgar J. Hoover.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

Sidewise in Time by Murray Leinster

https://www.scribd.com/document/199920368/Murray-Leinster-Sidewise-in-Time

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Moonglow by Benny Goodman

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go back to the year 1973 to read “Moby, Too” by Gordon Eklund. A psychic whale grows to hate humanity and kills a bunch of people while they are pooping and we have things to say about nipples, on both humans and whales.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“Moby, Too” by Gordon Eklund from The 1974 Annual World’s Best SF

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Songs of the Humpback Whale collected by Roger Payne

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go back to the year 2003 to read “Lemmings in the Third Year” by Jerome Stuart. The story is about a young woman scientist finds herself in an alternate dimension where all animals can talk, and she quickly makes friends with a bunch of lemming researchers. A funny episode about a weird lemming cult and why rodents are bad at the scientific method. 

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“Lemmings in the Third Year,” by Jerome Stueart in Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction, eds. Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go back to the year 2010 and read “Goodnight Moon” by Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker. This story is about two Hollywood writers trying to make a blockbuster hit, except they are writing a dream. Also, the moon is gone. But don’t worry about that, it’s not important.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“Goodnight Moon” by Bruce Sterling and Rudy Rucker

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Welcome to The Anachronist, a time traveling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go back to the year 1930 and read “The Ape Cycle” by Clare Winger Harris. Warning! This story is both very silly and very racist, so expect an equal amount of cringe and shocked laughter. It’s basically Planet of the Apes but much worse and In it we read about the heroic adventures of Rex, a gorilla butler who is tragically murdered by his former master whose life he had spared in an act of mercy.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“The Ape Cycle” by Clare Winger Harris from Science Wonder Quarterly

https://archive.org/details/Science_Wonder_Quarterly_v01n03_1930-Spring/page/n101

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Puttin’ on the Ritz by Harry Richman