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 1902 to talk about a legion of women without family, friends or funds, why you shouldn’t hire a professional vampire, a fakir with a point to prove and how to destroy your life by wishing for a chocolate bar.

Stories featured on this episode: 

A Professional Vampire by Claire K. Alden

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112107852284;view=1up;seq=13

The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs.

http://www.lonestar.edu/departments/english/Jacob_Monkey.pdf

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage- Theme song

Acceptance by Rad Sewage- Lightspeed Recap theme

Gnossienne No. 1 by Erik Satie-Monkey’s Paw 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 1953 to discuss aspirational cat ownership, lures for the female (it is the 50s ya know), psych robots and the fear of being eaten while naked.

Stories featured on this episode: 

All Cats Are Grey by Andre Norton from Women of Futures Past ed. Kristine Katherine Rusch

Colony by Philip K. Dick.

http://sickmyduck.narod.ru/pkd015-0.html

 

Music featured this episode:

Down the Clouds by Rad Sewage-Theme song

String Quartet No. 7, Op. 108 (1960, Fitzwilliam quartet) Dmitri Shostakovich

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 2004 to discuss robo-oyster babies, a grass monster induced crisis of faith, doctors in black and the most refreshing shower. 

Stories featured on this episode: 

My Mother Dancing by Nancy Cress

Memento Mori by Joe Haldeman. 

Both stories selected from Science Fiction: The Best of 2004

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Fiction-Best-2004-Quality/dp/1416504044

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 1937 to talk about prehistoric pro-wrestling, how to be awful and sexist, 1930s style, a dirty son of a priest and dogs v. doors, the eternal battle. 

Stories featured in this episode: 

The Ressurection of Jimber Jaw by Edgar Rice Burroughs

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601241h.html

By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Vincent Benét

http://whalenenglish.com/sophstoriesnew/fiction/bythewatersofbabylon.pdf

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 1921 to read about midnight trysts with a pining wood sprite, throwing pine cones at sleeping people, battle rapping the gods and silent letters being just a way to show off how literate and academic you really are. 

Stories featured this episode: 

The Wood Sprite by Vladimir Nabakov

https://gist.github.com/bwhitman/5807743

The Other Gods by H.P. Lovecraft

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx

And a special thanks to Rad Sewage for providing our theme music.

Welcome to the Anachronist, a time travelling review of science fiction old and new. Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This year, we go back to the decadent year of 1895 to discover a 16 step plan to conquering the galaxy, a very mighty man struggling to dress himself, the unspeakable horror of a pale and pudgy security guard and an irritible painter who clearly just wants someone to call him daddy. 

Stories featured this episode: 

On the Moon by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/sforres1/translations/Tsiolkovsky.html

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8492/8492-h/8492-h.htm

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. Except this episode our time machine was broken, so we read some contemporary Chinese science fiction instead. We discuss how to gain super powers by keeping your mouth shut, how Felix would turn into a bellowing tube monster, seriously inconsiderate bats and making friends with someone while battling to the death. 

Featured on this episode: 

Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation, edited by Ken Liu. 

"Invisible Planets" by Hao Jingfang

“Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse” by Xia jia

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 1936 and read about supervillains with tuberculosis, the empress of tomorrow, condescending clouds and why aliens would totally choose to talk to a lonely science fiction writer and not anyone else. 

Stories featured in this episode: 

The Adaptive Ultimate by Stanley G. Weinbaum

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601511h.html

He Who Shrank by Henry Hasse

http://www.prosperosisle.org/spip.php?article874

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 2001 and read about post apocalyptic pedal bike gangs, dream boyfriends who fake their own cryogenic freezing, the world's loneliest death cult and a sad old man on a mountain who hallucinates about his college girlfriend. 

Stories featured on this episode: 

Artie's Angels by Catherine Wells

http://www.johnjosephadams.com/wastelands/contents/arties-angels-by-catherine-wells/ (excerpt) 

New Light on the Drake Equation by Ian R. MacLeod

ftp://asavage.dyndns.org/Literature/scifi.com/www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/macleod/macleod1.html

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 1967 and read about the prejudice of Mr. Pbert Pbert, the wonderful noodles which we are all made out of, five men in a four man pissoir, and just how much a frelk can get for 60 lira in Istanbul. 

 

Stories featured this episode: 

 

All at One Point by Italo Calvino

http://www.ruanyifeng.com/calvino/2007/07/ch_4_all_at_one_point.html

 

Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. "Chip" Delaney. 

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/en304/syllabus2015-16/delany_aye_and_gomorrah....pdf