Invasion of the Giant Space Cats! 

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 1991 and read “The Man Who Would be Kzin” by Greg Bear. This is part of a much larger series about giant alien space cats trying to adorably murder all of humanity. Listen to us talk about what our social position based Kzin names would be, some extremely silly technobabble and of course, cats.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“The Man Who Would be Kzin” by Greg Bear.

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0671878794/0671878794___6.htm

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Delilah by Queen

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 (which Felix thinks is 1967) and read “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin. This story has a real big mood turn about 3/4 through, and is also the most sixties story I think I’ve ever read. Come, philosophically ponder with us the implications of a happy village with a dark secret on this episode of The Anachronist.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

I’m a Believer by The Monkees

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 1994, where we talk about giant monsters built over delicate bones, justified paranoia and punching your co-worker in the face.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

A Niche by Peter Watts

https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Niche.pdf

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

The Sign by Ace of Base- period 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 back to the year 2001, again, where we talk about creepy narrators hiding in trees, 12 women with the days of the week on their underwear and food that is really more like dancing.

Stories featured on this episode: 

The Girl Detective by Kelly Link

https://oldcoder.org/etext/Short_Stories/Girl_Detective.html

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Drops of Jupiter by Train- period 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 back to the year 1968, a year full of tumult and excitement. This time Rose tells us about the Indelible Kind by Zenna Henderson, a story about aliens among us, cosmonauts stranded in space and most importantly, dirty kleenex.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

The Indelible Kind by Zenna Henderson

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781476781617/9781476781617___2.htm

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage - light speed recap theme

Hey Jude by the Beatles - period 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 back to the Soviet Union in 1961, a time full of state violence and sad violin music. This time Felix tells us about The Purple Mummy by Anatoly Dneprov, which includes surprisingly accurate 3d printing, anticlimactic cancer and people being way too nice at a scientific conference.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

The Purple Mummy by Anatoly Dneprov

https://archive.org/details/AnatolyDneprovThePurpleMummy

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

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 Soviet Union in 1961, a time full of state violence and not bad jazz. We read about a maverick genius fighter pilot clown who has a bad habit of fabricating scientific evidence and thinks he has found the true origins of the Devil, his name is Soda-Sun.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

Soda-Sun by Mikhail Ancharov in Red Star Tales: A Century of Russian and Soviet Science Fiction (p. 275). Ed. Arkady Strugatsky, Russian Information Services, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage- Lightspeed Recap theme

As You Like It by Evald Vain (Estonia 1961)

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, way back to the 2nd century AD and the Islamic medieval period. We read about holes in hams, an infinite number of flying frogs which can be vaped for nutrition, 12 men who jump off a ladder to their deaths in sequence and hypocritical grave robbers. Please enjoy our season 2 finale, we’ll be taking a two week break afterwards.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

A True History by Lucian of Samasota translated by Francis Hickes

https://lucianofsamosata.info/downloads/lucian_true_history.pdf

1001 Arabian Nights: The City of Brass. Harvard Classics edition, 1909, translated by Edward William Lane.

https://www.bartleby.com/16/701.html

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage- Lightspeed Recap theme

Hymn to the Muse-2nd century AD 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 back to the year 1960 to talk about Vlad the Impaler, but as a bird, why not to get between a mad botanist and his alcohol, betting a bottle with a bartender and double kidnapping yourself.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

The Gilashrikes by Charles G. Finney

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w1ylbna7mur04ro/FSF_1959_10.pdf?dl=0

All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein

https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a281bb7e1a24c6c2ea0c

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage- Lightspeed Recap theme

The Twist by Chubby Checker

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 2016 to talk about first date alien watching, dream voyeurism, being super happy to see your own red blood and a gentle robot doorman who just wants to go on a date with you.

 

Stories featured on this episode: 

Aliens by Richard Van Camp

Imposter Syndrome by Marie Kurisato

Both stories selected from Love Beyond Body, Space and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology. Ed. Hope Nicholson.

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage- Lightspeed Recap theme