Chrononauts

Oct 30 2024 127 ep. 87 mins 15
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A science fiction literature history podcast, covering popular and obscure works. Contains spoilers for all works discussed. Texts and translations: https://chrononautspodcast.blogspot.com/ Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1093395-chrononauts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chrononautspodcast Twitter: @ChrononautsSF email: [email protected] Music and readings: https://chrononautspodcast.bandcamp.com Opening theme music by Ionas von Zezswitz Sounds and effects by Nate AI thumbnail art by DALL-E-2 and Stable Diffusion

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Sakyo Komatsu - "The Savage Mouth" (1979) | Chrononauts Episode 46.2

Oct 30 2024 31 mins  
Containing Matters of Grotesque Gastronomy. Bibliography: Gregory, Sinda and McCaffery, Larry - "Not just a Gibson Clone: An Interview with Goro Masaki" https://web.archive.org/web/20070927045310/http://www.centerforbookculture.org/review/02_2_inter/interview_masaki.html Tatsumi, Takayuki - "Generations and Controversies - An Overview of Japanese Science Fiction, 1957-1997", Scien

Kylas Chunder Dutt - "A Journal of 48 Hours In The Year 1945" (1835) | Chrononauts Episode 46.1

Oct 27 2024 42 mins  
Containing Matters most Revolting. Bibliography: Banerjee, Suparno - "Other tomorrows: postcoloniality, science fiction and India" (2010) Banerjee, Suparno - "Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity" (2020) Bhattacharya, Atanu and Hiradhar, Preet - "Own Maps/Imagined Terrain: The Emergence of Science Fiction in India", Extrapolation, vol. 55, no. 3 (2014) Chatt

Best and Worst of the Last 14 Episodes | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 6

Oct 23 2024 121 mins  
Timestamps: non-podcast reads, non-fiction background favorites (0:00) worst 3 and best 5 of episodes 32-45, future plans (47:25) Bookstores mentioned: Family Book Shop, 1301 N Woodland Blvd, DeLand, FL 32720 RBC Video, 269 Brighton Beach Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11235 (I said RBC Books by mistake and didn't catch it until after I uploaded this - sorry!)

Edward Page Mitchell - "The Man Without a Body" (1877) | Chrononauts Episode 45.5

Sep 03 2024 35 mins  
Containing Matters of Malformed Materialization. Switching sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M406arpS7ZA

W.C. Morrow - "The Monster Maker" (1887) | Chrononauts Episode 45.4

Sep 02 2024 25 mins  
Containing Matters of Malpractice. Bibliography: Joshi, S.T. - "The Evolution of the Weird Tale" (2004) Mobile, AL First National Bank - "Highlights of 75 Years in Mobile" (1940) https://archive.org/download/75yearsinmobile/75yearsinmobile.pdf Morrow, W.C. - "Some Queer Experiences" (1891) https://archive.org/details/1891somequeerexperiencesmorrowargo

Ronald Ross - "The Vivisector Vivisected" (1882) | Chrononauts Episode 45.3

Sep 01 2024 20 mins  
Containing Matters of Fluidics. Bibliography: Haining, Peter - biography on Ronald Ross from "The Monster Makers" anthology (1974) Nobel Prize and Laureates - "Ronald Ross" https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1902/ross/biographical/ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - "Biography of Sir Ronald Ross" https://web.archive.org/web/201

H.G. Wells - "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896) | Chrononauts Episode 45.2

Aug 31 2024 98 mins  
Containing Matters of Mammals. Timestamps: non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and discussion (22:18) general discussion and film adaptaions (1:08:13) Bibliography: Philmus, Robert (ed.) - "The Island of Doctor Moreau: a variorum text" (1993) Rieder, John - "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" (2008) Sherborne, Michael - "H.G

H.G. Wells - "Under the Knife" (1896) | Chrononauts Episode 45.1

Aug 30 2024 42 mins  
Containing Matters of Morphine. Timestamps: introductions, recent reads (0:00) general discussion on the legacy of "Frankenstein" (15:25) "Under the Knife" discussion (25:55) Bibliography: Gaping Blackbird - "The Purple Pileus" https://gapingblackbird.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/the-purple-pileus-by-h-g-wells Haining, Peter - introduction to "The M

P.D. James - "The Children of Men" (1992) | Chrononauts Episode 44.4

Jul 14 2024 95 mins  
Containing Matters of Midwives and Miracles. Timestamps: PD James biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and commentary (33:40) spoiler discussion (1:12:30) Bibliography: James, P.D. - "Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography" (2001)

E.M. Forster - "Little Imber" (1961) | Chrononauts Episode 44.3

Jul 13 2024 20 mins  
Containing a Matters which arrive at a decisive Finish. Bibliography: Moffat, Wendy - "A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster" (2010)