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 1983 where we read about resentful failed writers who are totally not Stephen King on a bad day, strange warbling guitar chords, nude grandmas and opt out euthenasia. 

Stories featured on this episode:

The Word Processor of the Gods by Stephen King

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The Byrds by Michael G. Coney in Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction, eds. David Hartwell and Glenn Grant, 1994.

Every week we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This week we went back to the year 1915, and read a stories about a UV blinding laser, Barry Sue the captain hero surgeon, magical "business" and D&D monsters before they were D&D monsters. 

Stories featured this episode: 

How Nuth Would Have Pratised His Art Upon the Gnoles by Lord Dunsany

http://doyleandmacdonald.com/d_nuth.htm

Beyond the Spectrum by Morgan Robertson in Ancestral Voices: An Anthology of Early Science Fiction edited by Douglas Menville and R. Reginald.

Every episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode, we went back to 1999 to read about an astronaut with an inferiority complex, meth induced hallucinations, fairy tale plumbing and beating up your awful ex by spitting gemstones out of your mouth. 

Stories featured in this episode:

Precious by Nalo Hopkinson

The Very Pulse of the Machine by Michael Swanwick

Three eights, three emperors, welcome to the year 1888 in science fiction history. Each episode we go back to a different year in history and read their science fiction. This episode we go back to the year 1888 to read about maybe gay time travelling best buds, an extremely rotten house, the existential horror of being naked in public, except it's your mind that's naked, and several cases of sudden explained death caused by sheer disinterest. 

Stories featured in this episode. 

The Chronic Argonauts by H.G. Wells 

To Whom This May Come by Edward Bellamy

This episode we go back to the ancient and fabled year of 2009, when the world was in the midst of the Great Recession, Rose was in high school and Lady Gaga was at the height of her fame. We take the opportunity of being farther forward in time to read science fiction short stories about cryogenically frozen lesbians, dead mom feels and sex aliens. 

Stories featured on this episode: 

Bridesicle by Will McIntosh

Spar by Kij Johnson

In our second episode, we go back to the year 1949 to read science fiction both great and terrible. Jerk roman centurions, resigned trogoladytes, quartz coral and exploding bullets, its all here. 

Stories featured in this episode: 

The Immortal by Jorge Luis Borges

Trigger Tide by Wyman Guin (aka Norman Menasco)

Other stories mentioned

And Be Merry by Katherine Maclean

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

This episode we go back to the year 1977 to read and discuss The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov and Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison.