Chrononauts

Containing More Matters of Metaphysical Musical Mastery.Timestamps:"Levitation" (1980), "Sonic Attack" (1981), "Church of Hawkwind" (1982), "Choose Your Masques" (1982) (0:00)"Chronicle of the Black Sword" (1985), "The Xenon Codex" (1988) (58:30)"Space Bandits" (1990), "Electric Tepee" (1992), "It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous" (1993), "White Zone" (1995), "Alien 4" (1995) (1:18:44)Bibliography:Banks, Joe - "Hawkwind: Days of the Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia" (2020)Clerk, Carol - "The Saga of Hawkwind" (2004)Tait, Kris - "This Is Hawkwind - Do Not Panic!" (1984)

Containing Matters of Metaphysical Musical Mastery.Timestamps:personal experiences with Hawkwind, band background, "Hawkwind" (1970) (0:00)interlude 1: "The Dream" (54:07)"X In Search of Space" (1971), "Doremi Fasol Latido" (1972) (59:26)interlude 2: "The Entropic Passing of An Electric Oracle" (1:37:30)Michael Moorcock - "Black Corridor" (1969), Bob Calvert solo records, "Space Ritual" (1973), "Hall of the Mountain Grill" (1974) (1:42:33)interlude 3: "The Demon" (2:30:01)"Warrior on the Edge of Time" (1975), "Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music" (1976), "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" (1977), "25 Years On" (1978), "PXR5" (1979) (2:33:15)Bibliography:Banks, Joe - "Hawkwind: Days of the Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age of Paranoia" (2020)Clerk, Carol - "The Saga of Hawkwind" (2004)Hard n Heavy "Trick or Treat" interview with Lemmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52sjYBglBsITait, Kris - "This Is Hawkwind - Do Not Panic!" (1984)

Containing Matters of MaintenanceTimestamps:Philip K. Dick biography, general discussion, "Last of the Masters" non-spoiler discussion (0:00)spoiler summary and discussion 38:55 Bibliography:Capanna, Pablo - "Idios Kosmos - Claves para una biograpfia de Philip K. Dick" (1992)Luminist Archives: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Periodicals https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/Sutin, Lawrence - "Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick" (2005)Music:Johnston, J. S. - "Electric polka" (1878) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023830168

Containing Matters Maladapted and Malconstructed.Timestamps:non-spoiler discussion (0:00)spoiler summary (38:15)spoiler discussion and film adaptations (1:00:13)

Containing Matters of VacancyTimestamps:W.E.B. Du Bois background (0:00)"The Comet" non-spoiler discussion (41:54)spoiler summary and discussion (52:07)Bibliography:Horne, Gerald - "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography" (2009)VanderMeer, Jeff and Ann (eds.) - "The Big Book of Science Fiction" (2016)

Containing Matters of Regression Timestamps: S. Belsky biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (23:07) Bibliography: Laboratory of Fantastika - "S. Belsky" https://fantlab.ru/autor10001 Music: Bellak, James - "Comet Schottisch" (1853) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023806609

Containing Matters of Canine Convincing. Timestamps: introductions, non-podcast reads, background on the apocalypse (0:00) Amado Nervo's "The Last War" non-spoiler discussion, plot summary, spoiler discussion (19:00) Bibliography: Ferreira, Rachel Haywood - "The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction" (2011) Tres Cuentos Literary Podcast #41 - "The Last War - Amado Nervo" https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/tres-cuentos/41-the-last-war-amado-nervo-1czSFyqr9Mh/ Music: Scott, Charles P. - "The Cat with the Baritone Voice" (1903) https://www.loc.gov/resource/musapschmidt.10006914/

Containing Matters of Cable Management Timestamps: James Tiptree, jr. biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) plot summary and spoiler discussion (49:56) Bibliography: Phillips, Julie - "James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" (2007)

Containing Matters of Mercy Timestamps: Harlan Ellison biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) plot summary and spoiler discussion (49:58) Bibliography: Segaloff, Nat - "A Lit Fuse: The Provocative Life of Harlan Ellison" (2017)

Containing Matters of Distant Demands. Timestamps: Frederik Pohl biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and discussion (38:57) Bibliography: Pohl, Frederik - "The Way the Future Was: A Memoir" (1978)

Containing Matters of Disorienting Displacement. Timestamps: Kersh biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (23:22) Bibliography: The Nights And Cities Of Gerald Kersh https://web.archive.org/web/20160212044247/https://harlanellison.com/kersh/

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", Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 2000)

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) Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva - "Aliens of the same world: The Case of Bangla Science Fiction" (2011) https://humanitiesunderground.org/2011/11/07/aliens-of-the-same-world-the-case-of-bangla-science-fiction/ Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva - introduction to "The Inhumans and other stories" (2024) Harder, Hans - "Indian and International: Some Examples of Marathi Science Fiction Writing", South Asia Research, 21, 1, 2001 Khanna, Rakesh - "The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction", vols 1-3 (2008-2017) Kuhad, Urvashi - "Science Fiction and Indian Women Writers: Exploring Radical Potentials" (2021) Mondal, Mini - "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part I" (2018) https://reactormag.com/a-short-history-of-south-asian-speculative-fiction-part-i/ Mondal, Mini - "A Short History of South Asian Speculative Fiction: Part II" (2018) https://reactormag.com/a-short-history-of-south-asian-speculative-fiction-part-ii/ Mund, Subhendu - "Kylas Chunder Dutt: The First Writer of Indian English Fiction", in "The Making of Indian English Literature" (2021) Phondke, Bal - preface to "It Happened Tomorrow" (1993) Saint, Tarun K. (ed) - "The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction" (2019) Sengupta, Debjani - "Sadhanbabu's Friends: Science Fiction in Bengal from 1882-1961" in "Sarai Reader 03: Shaping Technologies" (2003) Tickell, Alex - "Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947" (2012) Tickell, Alex - "Midnight's Ancestors: Kylas Chunder Dutt and the Beginnings of Indian-English Fiction", Wasafiri Vol. 21, No. 3 November 2006

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!)

Containing Matters of Malformed Materialization. Switching sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M406arpS7ZA

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/1891somequeerexperiencesmorrowargonaut Moskowitz, Sam - "Forgotten Master of Horror - The First Phase" in "Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I" (1992)

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/20140202111525/http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/library/archives/ross/biography/ Sinden, Robert E. - "Malaria, mosquitoes and the legacy of Ronald Ross", Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007 Nov; 85(11): 894–896 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636258/

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. Wells: Another Kind of Life" (1988) Shippey, Tom - "Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction" (2016) Music: Heiné, Joseph - "Madeira polka" (1874) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023820380

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 Monster Makers" anthology (1974) various articles from "The dental and surgical microcosm" (1891-1893) https://archive.org/details/dentalsurgicalmi03na/mode/2up Music: Dayton, J. - "The Mary Jane Polka" (1857) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023811721/

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)

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

Containing a Matter of Mutation. Timestamps: Judith Merril biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and discussion (35:09) Bibliography: Knight, Damon - "The Futurians" (1977) Merril, Judith and Pohl-Weary, Emily - "Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril" (2002)

Containing the matter of the Junior Philosopher. Timestamps: introductions, recent non-podcast reads, general discussion of the concept of "the family" (0:00) David H. Keller, MD background, non-spoiler discussion (29:51) plot summary and spoiler discussion (51:41) Bibliography: Hicks, Mar - "Computer Love: Replicating Social Order Through Early Computer Dating Systems" (2016) Lehmann-Haupt, Rachel - "Reconceptions: Modern Relationships, Reproductive Science, and the Unfolding Future of Family" (2023) Moskowitz, Sam - introduction to "Life Everlasting and Other Tales of Science, Fantasy and Horror" (1947)

Containing Matters of an Organic System of Movement Music: Valiashchik, Leon - "Elektro-Miss, or; the Electric Girl Fox-Trot" (c. 1920s) https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog/cf95jf74s Bibliography: Fedotova, Margarita and Taganov, Leonid - introduction to "Eight Chapters of Madness" anthology https://royallib.com/read/barkova_anna/vosem_glav_bezumiya_proza_dnevniki.html#0 Germanovna Kachalova Larisa - "The work of Anna Aleksandrovna Barkova from the 1920s to early 1930s, in the cultural paradigm of the era" https://www.dslib.net/russkaja-literatura/tvorchestvo-anny-aleksandrovny-barkovoj-1920-h-nachala-1930-h-godov-v-kulturnoj.html Laboratory of Fantastika - "Anna Barkova" https://fantlab.ru/autor6656 Lieberman, Hallie - "Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy" (2017) Maines, Rachel P. - "The technology of orgasm: hysteria, the vibrator, and women's sexual satisfaction" (1998) Vilensky, Simeon (ed) - "Till my tale is told: women's memoirs of the Gulag" (1999) https://archive.org/details/tillmytaleistold0000unse

Containing Matters of Manhattan Bibliography: Laboratory of Fantastika "Mikhail Zuev-Ordynets" https://fantlab.ru/autor3217 Music: Maiman, Zinovy - "Don't Need Nothin'" (c. 1920s) https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog/9p290d60k

Containing Matters of Dam Gold Bibliography: Kardinalowska, Tatiana - "The Ever-Present Past: Memoirs of Tatiana Kardinalowska" (2004) Kyiv - Paris - Dakar Publishing Company - "Tatiana Kardinalowska 'The Ever-present Past' with an afterward written by her daughters - Assya Humesky and Mirtala Pylypenko" https://web.archive.org/web/20201030103053/https://sites.google.com/site/kpdbook/proekty/tetana-kardinalovska-nevidstupne-minule-z-prodovzennam-ake-napisane-ieie-donkami---aseu-gumeckou-ta-mirtalou-pilipenko Shamraj, Ruth - "Reflections on my Love of Languages and Literatures: A Ukrainian Literary Evening with Professor Assya Humesky", The Slavic Scene, Volume 30, Spring 2019 https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/slavic-assets/slavic-documents/SlavicScene_May19_WEB.pdf Zhigun, S.V. - "Tatiana and Yelyzaveta Kardinalovska: Fate and Creativity" https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/37984/1/Zhygun-IF-kardynalovski.pdf Music: Prisovsky, V.A - "Ukrainian Fantasy" (c. 1912) https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog/qb98mj75w

Containing Matters of Matter. Bibliography: Laboratory of Fantastika - "Vladimir Orlovsky" https://fantlab.ru/autor8584 State University of Polotsk - "Vladimir Evgrafovich Grushvisky" https://www.psu.by/ru/slavnaya-letopis/vypuskniki-kadetskogo-korpusa/grushvitskij-vladimir-evgrafovich Music: Mizandari, Valiko - "Tango of Death" (c. 1910s) https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog/n870zv089

Containing a Matter of Maps. Timestamps: introductions, background and history on 1920s Soviet magazine science fiction (0:00) Alexey Matveyevich Volkov - "Aliens" (1928) (56:57) Music: Koval, Marian - "The Factory" (1932) https://dpul.princeton.edu/slavic/catalog/k0698b78r Bibliography: Archive of Fantastika: archivsf.narod.ru Archive of Fantastika "World of Adventure" entry: https://archivsf.narod.ru/1910/mir_priklyucheniy/index.htm Archive of Fantastika "Universal Tracker" entry: https://archivsf.narod.ru/1925/vsemirny_sledopyt/index.htm Ashley, Mike - "Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950" (2000) Ashley, Mike - "Transformations: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970" (2005) Banerjee, Anindita - "We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity" (2012) Banerjee, Anindita (ed) - "Russian Science Fiction Literature And Cinema: A Critical Reader" (2018) City Walls: A St. Petersburg Architectural Website: "P.P. Soikin Publishing House building" https://www.citywalls.ru/house4894.html Contento, William G. and Stephensen-Payne, Phil - The FictionMags Index: http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/0start.htm Episodes in Space "Bibliography of Fantastika authors, 1921-1925" https://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/fantast21-25.html Laboratory of Fantastika: fantlab.ru Laboratory of Fantastika - entry for "Aliens" https://fantlab.ru/work96387 Okulov, Valery - "On Magazine Fantastika from the First Half of the 20th Century" https://royallib.com/read/okulov_valeriy/o_gurnalnoy_fantastike_pervoy_polovini_hh_veka.html#0 Soviet amateur radio website and archives: https://sergeyhry.narod.ru/ Terra, Richard P. and Philmus, Robert M. - "Russian and Soviet Science Fiction in English Translation: A Bibliography" (1991) "The 'Ural Tracker' magazine: a jewel in the world of periodical literature" https://dzen.ru/a/ZMOX-gwCYR5r8MMS "World of Adventure" scans at Russian Public Library http://publ.lib.ru/ARCHIVES/M/''Mir_priklyucheniy''_(jurnal_izd.''P.P.Soykin'')/_MP.html

Containing Matters of Madeira, Meteors, and Mediums Timestamps: "Damnation Morning" (1959) (0:00) "Try and Change the Past" (1958) (19:07) "A Deskful of Girls" (1958) (33:10)

Containing Matters of Performance and the Transmissions of Such. Timestamps: "No Great Magic" (1963) (0:00) "The Oldest Soldier" (1960) (29:58) "Knight to Move" (1965) (43:43)

Containing Matters of an Inversion of Introversion. introductions, recent reads (0:00) Fritz Leiber background (9:55) non-spoiler discussion (41:28) plot summary, spoiler discussion (1:01:47) Bibliography: Scrolls of Lankhmar https://scrollsoflankhmar.com/ Leiber, Fritz - "The Book of Fritz Leiber" (1975) Leiber, Fritz - "Second Book of Fritz Leiber" (1976) Leiber, Fritz - "The Ghost Light" (1984)

Containing Matters of Punishment. Doctor Who personal background and novel history (0:00) "Eye of Heaven" chapter 8 reading excerpt (47:51) non-spoiler discussion (55:45) spoiler plot summary and discussion (1:23:53) Music: Jim Mortimore - "Red Ghost of the Sun", from "Ghosts of the Sun" album, 2018 (used in ch. 8 reading excerpt with permission) https://jimmortimore.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts-of-the-sun Jim Mortimore Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/%C2%ADgroups/%C2%AD1908597789294796 Jim Mortimore Bandcamp: http://jimmortimore.bandcamp.com/music

Containing Matters In which the Captain goes Once more unto the Breach. Timestamps: a brief overview and recommenations of non-literature SF media before 1965 (0:00) personal backgrounds with Star Trek (25:58) Diane Duane background, Star Trek novel history, non-spoiler discussion (47:51) spoiler summary and spoiler discussion (1:20:36) Bibliography: Ayers, Jeff - "Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion" (2006) Bacon-Smith, Camille - "Enterprising women: television fandom and the creation of popular myth" (1992) Benson, Michael - "Vintage Science Fiction Films, 1896-1949" (1985) Costa, Jordi - "Hay Algo Ahí Afuera: Una Historia del Cine de Cine-Ficción, 1895-1959" (1997) McGilligan, Patrick - "Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast" (1997) Solomon, Matthew (ed.) "Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination: Georges Méliès's Trip to the Moon" (2011) Verba, Joan Marie - "Boldly Writing: A Trekker Fan and Zine History, 1967 - 1987" (1996) Wade, John - "The Golden Age of Science Fiction: A Journey into Space with 1950s Radio, TV, Films, Comics and Books" (2019) Diane Duane personal websites: https://www.dianeduane.com/about-the-author/ https://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2022/08/30/on-becoming-a-star-trek-novelist/ https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/117189937126/whats-the-name-of-the-book-about-the-spider https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/742571028615725056/the-alien-and-the-pajamas-happened-in-the?source=share https://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2006/10/28/star-trek-the-next-generation-where-no-one-has-gone-before/ JM's Star Trek streams on John Gill's channel:https://www.youtube.com/@johngill6290

Containing Matters of Indecision Timestamps: non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler plot summary and spoiler discussion (8:08) Astounding July 1939 story ranking, general issue discussion (51:34) Music: Hirsch, Louis A. - "Sweet Kentucky Lady" (1914) https://www.loc.gov/resource/music.musihas-100006686/?sp=1&st=image Dodge, Mr. & Mrs John Wilson - "Moon, Moon, Moon" (1910) https://www.loc.gov/resource/musm1508.10020387.0/

Containing Matters of Idolatry and Interventionism Timestamps: Amelia Reynolds Long biography, non-spoiler summary (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion, "Geography for Time Travelers" non-fiction article (21:56) Bibliography: Science Fiction Encyclopedia - "Amelia Reynolds Long" https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/long_amelia_reynolds Simms, Richard - "A Tribute to Amelia Reynolds Long" amelialong.tripod.com Yaszek, Lisa - "Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Women of Science Fiction" (2016)

Containing Matters of Chromatic Death Timestamps: Rocklynne background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary, discussion (9:48) "Brass Tacks" letters section (26:37) Bibliography: Ellison, Harlan - "Dangerous Visions" (1967) Rocklynne, Ross - "Introducing the Author", Fantastic Adventures, May 1939 Rocklynne, Ross - "Meet the Author", Startling Stories, November 1942 Rocklynne, Ross - "PS's Feature Flash", Planet Stories, May 1943 Rocklynne, Ross - "Introducing the Author", Imagination, January 1954

Containing Matters of Perpetual Cooking Timestamps: Nelson Bond background, "Lightship, Ho!" non-spoiler discussion (0:00) "Lightship, Ho!" spoiler summary and discussion (12:40) "Tools for Brains" non-fiction article (30:02) Bibliography: Bond, Nelson - "Introducing the Author" Fantastic Adventures, July 1939 Bond, Nelson - "Introducing the Author" Fantastic Adventures, November 1939 Locus Magazine - "Nelson S. Bond: Looking Way Back" https://www.locusmag.com/1998/Issues/10/Bond.html Reed, Betsy - "Nelson S. Bond Obituary", The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/nov/21/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries Science Fiction Encyclopedia - "Nelson S. Bond" https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/bond_nelson_s

Containing Matters of Harg and Rockets. Timestamps: Nat Schachner background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (35:31) Bibliography: Asimov, Isaac - "Before the Golden Age" (1974) Moskowitz, Sam - "The Science-Fiction of Nat Schachner", Fantasy Commentator, #43, #44, #45/46 (1992) https://fanac.org/fanzines/Fantasy_Comment/ Schachner, Nat - "Introducing the Author", Fantastic Adventures, September 1939

Containing Matters of Divine Disagreement Timestamps: Asimov background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (54:06) Bibliography: Asimov, Isaac - "The Early Asimov" (1972) Asimov, Isaac - "Before the Golden Age" (1974) Asimov, Isaac - "In Memory Yet Green" (1979) Nevala-Lee, Alec - "Astounding" (2018) Music: Hoffman, F - "Ouverture 'Jupiter'" (1883) https://www.loc.gov/item/2023850031/

Containing Matters of Feline Carrier Difficulty Timestamps: introduction, opening sketch, 1939 "Union Leader Tobacco" ad read (0:00) Astounding 1939 cover, contents, ads, non-fiction piece on atomic power (5:42) A.E. Van Vogt background, "Black Destroyer" non-spoiler discussion (17:38) "Black Destroyer" spoiler summary and discussion (45:02) Bibliography: Aldiss, Brian and Wingrove, David - "Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction" (1986) Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 issue https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v23n05_1939-07_dtsg0318/mode/2up D'Ammassa, Don - "Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction" (2005) Hartwell, David G. - "Age of Wonders: Exploring the World of Science Fiction" (1984) James, Edward - "The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction" (2003) Panshin, Alexei - "The Early Stories of A.E. van Vogt" https://www.panshin.com/articles/vanvogt/vanvogt1.html Platt, Charles - introduction to "The World of Null-A" (1977) Music: in order of appearance in opening sketch: Hirsch, Louis A. - "Sweet Kentucky Lady" (1914) https://www.loc.gov/resource/music.musihas-100006686/?sp=1&st=image Dodge, Mr. & Mrs John Wilson - "Moon, Moon, Moon" (1910) https://www.loc.gov/resource/musm1508.10020387.0/ Bayes, Nora and Norworth, Jack - "Falling Star" (1909) https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200004367/ "Union Leader" ad read from Astounding July 1939 issue (with "Sweet Kentucky Lady")

Containing Matters of a Morgoth Diversion. Timestamps: band history, background (0:00) album picks #15-10 (37:42) album picks #9-5 (1:35:28) album picks #4-1, general discussion (2:35:35) Thumbnail art from Speed Attack #2 Links: Deceased photo history excerpt https://web.archive.org/web/20030415192525/http://www.upthetombstones.com/1986_summer_party.shtml The Corroseum fanzine archive https://thecorroseum.org/fanzines/ Zines: Anarcheology #3 Chile (1989) Barst #5 Belgium (1984) Blitzkrieg #2 Germany (1984) The Book Of Armageddon #4 USA (1988) L'ame De Fond #8/9 France (1987) Metal Madness #3 USA (1984) Metal Meltdown #8 USA (1990) Metal Warriors #2 Belgium (1987) Metallic Assault #2 Canada (1984) Sheet Metal #3 USA (1988) Slam #1 (1987) USA Sledgehammer Press #8 USA (1984) Speed Attack #2 Germany (1984)

Containing Matters of the Community. Timestamps: introductions and recent reads (0:00) personal histories with fandom (35:26) 1930s fandom history and fanzine excerpts (49:24) Sam Moskowitz - "Why Doesn't Our Ship Move" (1937) (1:48:44) James Blish - "Pursuit into Nowhere: Adopted from the Annals of Space Patrol" (1936) (1:57:49) Ralph Milne Farley - "The Rexmel" (1935) (2:09:12) Clark Ashton Smith - "The Primal City" (1934) (2:15:12) George Hamm - "Cluck Rogers in Astounding" (1936) (2:47:21) Ruth Berman - "Star Drek" (1968) (2:55:31) Bibliography: Cowan, Zagria - "Donald A Wollheim/Darrell G Raynor (1914-1990) science fiction writer and editor, trans memoirist - Part 1" https://zagria.blogspot.com/2023/05/donald-wollheimdarrell-g-raynor-1914.html Davin, Eric Leif - "Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction" (1999) The Eldritch Dark: The Sanctum of Clark Ashton Smith http://www.eldritchdark.com/ FANAC Fan History - "Early Star Trek Fandom - Ruth Berman and Devra Langsam, Fan History Zoom" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHIpNXq6wSo FANAC - "Chronological List of Fanzines on Fanac.org" https://fanac.org/fanzines/chronological_listing_of_fanzines.html Fancyclopedia 3 https://fancyclopedia.org/Fancyclopedia_3 Fancyclopedia 3 - "First Convention" https://fancyclopedia.org/First_Convention Moskowitz, Sam - "Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction Fandom" (1954) Pocket 2000 bookstore https://www.facebook.com/p/Pocket-2000-libreria-100058006428228/ Profondo Rosso store http://www.profondorossostore.com/en/ Speer, Jack - "Up To Now" (1939) Music: Wagner, Ferdinand - "Little Jupiter; Polka schnell" (1881) https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1881.10566/ (interlude 2) Bayes, Nora and Norworth, Jack - "Falling Star" (1909) https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200004367/ (interlude 7)

Concerning Matters of Fire and Ice. Timestamps: John Campbell biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (34:21) John Campbell's legacy on science fiction (1:08:27) Bibliography: Ashley, Mike - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp magazines From the Beginning to 1950" (2001) Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998) Davin, Eric Leif - "Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction Hardcover" (1999) Silverberg, Robert and Nevala-Lee, Alec - "Frozen Hell: Introduction and Foreword" (2019) Tymn, Marshall B. and Ashley, Mike (eds.) - "Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction magazines" (1985)

Containing Matters of a Preponderance of Ponderance. Timestamps: Harry Bates biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (18:00) Bibliography: "The Astounding Harry Bates" featurette, from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" DVD (2008) Schwartz, Julian and Weisinger, Mortimer - "Titans of Science Fiction: Interview with Harry Bates", Science Fiction Digest #6, February 1933 https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Digest_2/SF_Digest_0106-09.html?

Containing Matters of Binary Flashes and Semaphore Dashes. Timestamps: Gallun biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (30:27) Bibliography: Ashley, Mike - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp magazines From the Beginning to 1950" (2001) Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998) Davin, Eric Leif - "Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction Hardcover" (1999) Pierce, J.J. - introduction to "The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun" (1978) Tymn, Marshall B. Tymn and Ashley, Mike (eds.) - "Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction magazines" (1985)

Containing Matters of Romans and Confederates. Timestamps: Tremaine-era Astounding background, Murray Leinster background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (19:50) Bibliography: Ashley, Mike - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp magazines From the Beginning to 1950" (2001) Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998) Davin, Eric Leif - "Pioneers of Wonder: Conversations With the Founders of Science Fiction Hardcover" (1999) Duncan, Andy - "It's All SF: Science Fiction, Southern Fiction, and the Case of Murray Leinster" (2000) Science Fiction Book Club - "Interview with Steven Silver and Billee Stallings" (2022) https://middletownpubliclib.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Interview-about-Murray-Leinster-website.pdf Tymn, Marshall B. Tymn and Ashley, Mike (eds.) - "Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction magazines" (1985) Music: Beck, Sam - "Neptune Rondo" (1845) https://www.loc.gov/resource/sm1845.050900.0?st=gallery

Containing Matters in which Proteus transforms the Species. Timestamps: Sophie Wenzel Ellis background and non-spoiler discussion (0:00) spoiler summary and discussion (24:42) Bibliography: Adams, M.B. - "The politics of human heredity in the USSR, 1920-1940" (1989) Ashley, Mike - "The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers" (2015) Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998) Davin, Eric Leif - "Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965" (2005) Gilbert, James B. - "Collectivism and Charles Steinmetz" (1974) Music: Dodge, Mr. & Mrs John Wilson - "Moon, Moon, Moon" (1910) https://www.loc.gov/resource/musm1508.10020387.0/

Containing Matters in which Mutton is a Joy to All. Timestamps: introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00) Astounding Stories background, Captain S.P. Meek biography, non-spoiler discussion (14:52) spoiler plot summary/spoiler discussion (39:06) Bibliography: Astounding Stories of Super Science, January 1930 issue https://archive.org/details/Astounding_Stories_of_Super_Science_1930/asf1930-01/ Ashley, Mike - "The History of the Science Fiction Magazine - Part 1 (1926-1935)" (1976) Ashley, Mike - "The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950" (2001) Bleiler, Everett - "Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years" (1998) Nevala-Lee, Alec - "Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction" (2018) Music: Robelen, Harry - "Pluto Polka" (1874) https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1874.04744/

In which the Heavens provide a Relax of the Mind. Timestamps: background on Italian science fiction (0:00) Pestriniero biography and non-spoiler discussion (30:47) spoiler summary and discussion, "Planet of the Vampires" discussion (44:54) Bibliography: Catalogo Vegetti della letteratura fantastica - "Renato Pestrinero" https://www.fantascienza.com/catalogo/autori/NILF14184/renato-pestriniero/ Edizioni Solfanelli - "Renato Pestriniero" https://www.edizionisolfanelli.it/renatopestriniero.htm Delos Books - "A Mestre omaggio a Renato Pestriniero" (2008) https://www.fantascienza.com/11588/a-mestre-omaggio-a-renato-pestriniero Saiber, Arielle - "Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction", California Italian studies, 2011 Brioni, Simone and Comberiati, Daniele - "Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film" (2019) Lucas, Tim - "Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark" (2007) Science Fiction Encyclopedia - "Italy" https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/italy

Containing Matters of Radium, Evolution and Revolution. Timestamps: Arelsky biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00) "Professor Dagin's Observatory" spoiler summary/discussion 23:20 "Two Worlds" spoiler summary/discussion 36:35 "Towards a New Sun" spoiler summary/discussion 52:06 Bibliography: Imperia Auctions, Auction 95, Lot 220, June 24, 2022 http://www.auction-imperia.ru/wdate.php?t=booklot&i=79580 Kons - "Stefan Graal Arelsky", Laboratory of Fantastika https://fantlab.ru/autor12055 Nikolskaya, T. L. - "Graal Arelsky: Biographical Information", Library of Maxim Moshkov, http://az.lib.ru/g/graalxarelxskij/text_1994_bio.shtml

Containing Matters which keep the Human race Preserved. Timestamps: introductions, recent non-podcast reads (0:00) Harry Martinson biography and non-spoiler discussion (17:46) plot summary and spoiler discussion (48:08) opera and film discusion (1:35:42) Bibliography: Generation Spaceship Project - text and notes of "Aniara" https://gsproject.edublogs.org/gs-texts/texts-used-in-2017/aniara-by-harry-martinson-3/ Johannesson, Eric O. - "Aniara: Poetry and the Poet in the Modern World" Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 4 (November, 1960) Klass, Stephen - introduction to "Aniara" (1999) Sjöberg, Leif - "Harry Martinson: From Vagabond to Space Explorer", Books Abroad, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Summer, 1974) Sjöberg, Leif - translator's note to "Aniara" (1999) Smith, William Jay and Sjöberg, Leif - "On Harry Martinson", The American Poetry Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (July/August 1985) Titelman, David - "On Nomadic Shores Inward - Harry Martinson's Journey to Late-Life Suicide", The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 90:2, 2021 Vowles, Richard Beckman - "Harry Martinson, Sweden's Seaman-Poet", Books Abroad, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Autumn, 1951)