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Containing Matters of Miscreancy

Timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00)

"Dangerous Visions" background (14:28)

Lester del Rey - "Evensong" (39:41)

Robert Silverberg - "Flies" (51:18)

Frederik Pohl - "The Day After the Day the Martians Came" (1:00:17)

Philip José Farmer - "Riders of the Purple Wage" (1:04:43)

Miriam Allen deFord - "The Malley System" (1:46:40)

Robert Bloch - "A Toy for Juliette" (1:59:04)

Harlan Ellison - "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" (2:07:32)

Brian W. Aldiss - "The Night That All Time Broke Out" (2:11:58)

Bibliography:

Farmer, Philip José - introduction to "The Black Tower" (1988)

Nette, Andrew & McIntyre, Iain (eds.) - "Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985" (2021)

Containing Matters of Mimicry

Bibliography:

Abraham, Carlos - "Las revistas argentinas de ciencia ficción" (2018)

Containing Matters of Hostile Work Environment

Timestamps:

Varsavsky background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (16:41)

Bibliography:

Abraham, Carlos - "Las revistas argentinas de ciencia ficción" (2018)

Rietti, Sara (ed) "Oscar Varsavsky: Una Lectura Postergada" (2007)

Schoijet, Mauricio - "Ultra-left science policy and anti-modernization in Argentina: Oscar Varsavsky", Science and Policy, Feb 2002

Varsavsky - "Hacia Una Politica Cientifica Nacional" (1972)

Containing Matters of Miscalculation

Timestamps:

Más Allá background (0:00)

Héctor Germán and Jorge Oesterheld background (24:13)

"Beware of the Dog" (1953) (34:43)

"Boomerang" (1953) (52:50)

Bibliography:

Abraham, Carlos - "Las revistas argentinas de ciencia ficción" (2018)

Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas, "Más Allá de la Ciencia y de la Fantasía" archive, https://ahira.com.ar/revistas/mas-alla-de-la-ciencia-y-de-la-fantasia/

Capanna, Pablo - "La sci-fi en Argentina", El taco en la brea, May 2018

de Pedro, Roque - "Los Primeros Pasos de la Ciencia Fiction Argentina: Acá también hay un más allá”", pp. 20-22, Expreso Imaginario #38, Sept 1979

Ferreira, Rachel Haywood - "How Latin America Saved the World and Other Forgotten Futures", Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 43, No. 2 (July 2016), pp. 207-225

Ferreira, Rachel Haywood - "Más Allá, El Eternauta, and the Dawn of the Golden Age of Latin American Science Fiction (1953-59)", Extrapolation 51.2 (2010), pp. 281-303

Hennum, Shea - "The Interrupted Eternity: How the ’70s Argentinian Government Removed Rebel Cartoonist Héctor Germán Oesterheld", Paste Magazine, 18 November 2025 https://www.pastemagazine.com/comics/the-interrupted-eternity-how-the-argentinian-governme

Lambiek Comicylopedia - "Hector German Oesterheld" entry https://www.lambiek.net/artists/o/oesterheld_hg.htm

Noguerol, Claudio Omar - "A History of Science Fiction and Fandom in Argentina" (1989) https://fanac.org/Fan_Histories/Argentina/history_sf_fandom_in_argentina.pdf

Porrúa, Francisco - unpublished letter to Forrest J Ackerman, October 22, 1955, Box 133, "Porrúa, Francisco 1954-1955, 1957, 1960" folder, Forrest J Ackerman Papers, Syracuse University Libraries Special Collections Research Center https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/a/ackerman_fj.htm

Quereilhac, Soledad - "Más Allá de la Ciencia y de la Fantasía: Revista mensual de aventuras apasionantes en el mundo de la magia científica (1953-1957)", Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas https://ahira.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Presentaci%C3%B3n-M%C3%A1s-All%C3%A1-SQ.pdf

Standal, CJ - "Comics’ Own Martyr: Héctor Oesterheld’s Life and Death", Cartoonist Cooperative, August 2023 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/comics-own-martyr-hector-oesterhelds-life-and-death/

Tercera Fundacion, "Nueva Dimensión 49 (1973)" entry https://tercerafundacion.net/biblioteca/ver/ficha/7825

Thielman, Sam - "The Comic-Strip Writer Who Became a Legend", The New Yorker, 26 April 2023 https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-comic-strip-writer-who-became-a-legend

Containing Matters Of Manifestations

Bibliography:

Barbieri, Daniele - "Ricordando Sandro Sandrelli" (2018) https://www.labottegadelbarbieri.org/ricordando-sandro-sandrelli/

Biblioteca di via Senato Fondazione - "Fondo Fantascienza" https://bibliotecadiviasenato.it/patrimonio/fondo-fantascienza/

Jarok, Andrea - "1963/1968: la nascita del fandom"

Proietti, Salvatore - "Un viaggio nella narrativa di uno dei padri della fantascienza italiana" (2010) https://www.fantascienza.com/13483/la-scienza-l-assurdo-e-i-mille-mondi-sandro-sandrelli

Sandrelli bibliography at fantascienza.com https://www.fantascienza.com/catalogo/autori/NILF14680/sandro-sandrelli/

Containing Matters of Mass Transit

Timestamps:

Luigi Cozzi background (0:00)

"Rainy Day Revolution No. 39" discussion (27:31)

Bibliography:

Bałaga, Marta, interview with Luigi Cozzi (2024) https://cineuropa.org/es/interview/470204/

Frau, Fabio Secchi "Il principe della fantascienza italiana" https://www.mymovies.it/persone/luigi-cozzi/52276/

DeSentis, John "Talking COZZILLA: An Interview with Italian GODZILLA Director Luigi Cozzi", (2009) https://www.scifijapan.com/godzilla-toho/talking-cozzilla-an-interview-with-italian-godzilla-director-luigi-cozzi

de Voogd, Barend, interview with Luigi Cozzi (2011) https://www.flashbackfiles.com/luigi-cozzi-interview

Torretti, Barbara, interview with Luigi Cozzi (2006) https://www.darkveins.com/en/interview-with-luigi-cozzi/

Containing Matters of Marine Movement

Timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads, "International Science Fiction" background (0:00)

"Wanderers and Travellers" discussion, spoiler summary (21:40)

Bibliography:

WSFA Journal #51, Jan 1968https://fanac.org/fanzines//WSFA_Journal/wsfa_journal_51_miller_1968-01.pdf

Containing Matters of Cultivation

Timestamps:

Sturgeon background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (26:52)

Bibliography:

Delany, Samuel - introduction from "The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Vol. II)"

Ellison, Harlan - introduction from "The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Vol. XI)"

Heinlein, Robert - introduction from "The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon (Vol. III)"

Menger, Lucy - "Theodore Sturgeon" (1981)

Containing Matters of Misappropriation

Timestamps:

St. Clair biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (34:20)

Bibliography:

St. Clair, Margaret - "Wight in Space: An Autobiographical Sketch" from "Fantastic Lives - Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers" (1981)

St. Clair, Margaret - "Twenty-Seven Captured Suns" (1947)

St. Clair, Margaret - "Supplement to Twenty-Seven Captured Suns" (1947)

Containing Matters of Falconry

Timestamps:

Lafferty biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (34:14)

Bibliography:

Arrive at Easterwine blog https://www.arriveateasterwine.com/portfolio

Jackson, Tom - "My interview with R.A. Lafferty" https://sanduskyregister.com/news/166265/my-interview-with-ra-lafferty/

Otto Jack Petersen, Daniel - "The Hole on the Corner" podcast https://www.youtube.com/@Doctor_Rockter

Containing Matters of Matronly Materialization

Timestamps:

Henderson biography, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (10:43)

Bibliography:

Mormon Literature and Creative Arts - "Zenna Chlarson Henderson" https://web.archive.org/web/20120204042207/http://mormonlit.lib.byu.edu/lit_author.php?a_id=2767

Webster, Bud - "Zenna Henderson" http://www.philsp.com/articles/pastmasters_04.html

Yaszek, Lisa - "Zenna Henderson" https://womensf.loa.org/zenna-henderson/

Containing Matters of Mental Minusculity

Timestamps:

Kornbluth background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (24:06)

Bibliography:

Knight, Damon - "The Futurians: The Story of the Science Fiction 'Family' of the 30's That Produced Today's Top SF Writers and Editors" (1977)

Pohl, Frederik - "The Way the Future Was by Frederik Pohl" (1978)

Pohl, Frederik - introduction to "The Best of C. M. Kornbluth" (1976)

Pohl, Frederik - introduction to "His Share of Glory" (1997)

Pohl-Weary, Emily - "Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril" (2002)

Containing Matters of Manhood

Timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00)

Galaxy magazine background (16:46)

Katherine MacLean biography, non-spoiler discussion (35:07)

plot summary, spoiler discussion (56:36)

Bibliography:

Ashley, Mike - "Transformations; The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970" (2005)

Delaney, Samuel - interview with Katherine Maclean at Readercon 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swcMDVSYpY

Gold, Horace Leonard - "What Will They Think of Last - SF for Fun and Profit From the Inside" (1976)

MacLean, Katherine - "The Expanding Mind" from "Fantastic Lives - Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers" (1981)

Pohl, Frederik - "The Way the Future Was" (1978)

Rosheim, David - "Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years" (1986)

Schweitzer, Darrell - "An Interview with Katherine MacLean", The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2013

Containing Matters of Talks, Trips, and Tubies

Timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00)

Elgin biography, non-spoiler discussion (12:49)

spoiler summary (46:56)

spoiler discussion (1:58:13)

Bibliography:

Elgin, Suzette Haden - "Song at the Ready" https://youtu.be/SlElFLJqW_0 (1984)

Elgin, Suzette Haden - "Suzette Haden Elgin's Verbal Self Defense Home Page" - https://www.adrr.com/aa/

Encyclopedia of Arkansas - "Suzette Haden Elgin (1936–2015)" https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/suzette-haden-elgin-3403/

Láadan Language homepage - https://laadanlanguage.com/

Marsh, Stephen R. - "An update on Suzette Haden Elgin from her husband" (2012) https://ethesis.blogspot.com/2012/02/update-on-suzette-haden-elgin-from-her.html?m=1

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America - "Suzette Haden Elgin biography" https://www.sfwa.org/members/elgin/index.html#Biography

Wells, Kim - "An Interview with Suzette Haden Elgin" (1999) https://web.archive.org/web/20170302034339/http://womenwriters.net/editorials/hadenelgin.htm

Containing Matters of Continental Drift

timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00)

"War with the Newts" background, non-spoiler discussion (13:41)

spoiler summary and discussion (34:35)

general spoiler discussion and audio adaptations (1:48:11)

Music:

German, Edward - "In Praise of Neptune" (1912) https://imslp.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Neptune_(German%2C_Edward)

A. C. B., Miss - "Sea Nymph Polka" (1855) https://imslp.org/wiki/Sea_Nymph_Polka_(Miss_A._C._B.)

Sousa, John Philip - "The Triton March" (1892) https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Audio-Resources/The-Complete-Marches-of-John-Philip-Sousa/The-Triton-March/

Bibliography:

Klima, Ivan - introduction to "War with the Newts"

Rieder, John - "On Karel Čapek’s Prophetic Science Fiction Novel ‘War With the Newts’" in "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival From Speculative Fiction" (2022)

Containing Matters of Falconry

Timestamps:

Planet Stories background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (33:39)

Bibliography:

Brackett, Leigh - introduction to "Enchantress of Venus" from "The Space Opera Renaissance" (2006)

Hartwell, David G. and Cramer, Kathryn - introduction to "The Space Opera Renaissance" (2006)

Containing Matters of Medusas

Timestamps:

non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary and discussion (18:14)

Bibliography:

Luminist "Weird Tales" archive https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/WT.htm

Containing Matters of the Gentleman

Timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00)

background on space opera and planetary romance (16:40)

"Princess of Mars" non-spoiler discussion (39:16)

spoiler summary and discussion (1:03:06)

spoiler general discussion, film discussion (2:14:01)

Music:

Hill, Ferd. K. - "General Grant's Polka" (1865) https://www.loc.gov/resource/music.muscivilwar-200000454/

Bibliography:

Hartwell, David G. and Cramer, Kathryn - introduction to "The Space Opera Renaissance" (2006)

Porges, Irwin - "Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man Who Created Tarzan" (1975)

Containing Matters of Monkey

Timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00)

Strugatsky brothers biography, non-spoiler discussion (24:56)

spoiler summary and discussion (1:01:13)

"Stalker" film discussion (1:51:27)

Bibliography:

Cordasco, Rachel - "Fantastic Fiction: The Strugatsky Brothers in 1962" https://seattlein2025.org/2025/07/11/fantastic-fiction-the-strugatsky-brothers-in-1962/

The Guardian - "Boris Strugatsky: Russia mourns death of sci-fi writer – even Vladimir Putin" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/20/boris-strugatsky-russia-sci-fi-writer

Howell, Yvonne - "Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky (August 28, 1925-October 13, 1991)" Science Fiction Studies, volume 19, issue 1 (1992)

Laboratory of Fantastika - "Roadside Picnic" entry https://fantlab.ru/work569
Lem, Stanislaw, Elsa Schieder and R.M.P.- “About the Strugatskys’ ‘Roadside Picnic,’” Science Fiction Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (1983)

Riley, John - "Boris Strugatsky: Acclaimed writer of science fiction" obituary (2012) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/boris-strugatsky-acclaimed-writer-of-science-fiction-8424590.html

Science Fiction Encyclopedia - "Strugatski, Arkady and Boris" https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/strugatski_arkady

Simon, Erik - “The Strugatskys in Political Context,” Science Fiction Studies, volume 31, issue 3 (2004)

Strugatsky, Arkadii, Vladimir Gopman, Mark Knighton, and Darko Suvin- “Science Fiction Teaches the Civic Virtues: An Interview with Arkadii Strugatsky,” Science Fiction Studies, volume 18, issue 1 (1991)

Strugatsky, Boris Natanovich, Erik Simon- “Working for Tarkovsky,” Science Fiction Studies, volume 31, issue 3 (2004)

Containing Matters of Mapping Memory

Timestamps:

Ted Chiang background, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler summary, spoiler discussion, "Arrival" discussion (17:21)

Bibliography:

Brady, Amy - "Barack Obama’s 2019 Summer Reading List", Chicago Review of Books, https://chireviewofbooks.com/2019/08/20/barack-obamas-2019-summer-reading-list/

Grant, Gavin J. - interview with Ted Chiang, indiebound https://web.archive.org/web/20170407032812/http://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/chiangted

McCarron, Meghan - "The Legendary Ted Chiang on Seeing His Stories Adapted and the Ever-Expanding Popularity of SF"https://electricliterature.com/the-legendary-ted-chiang-on-seeing-his-stories-adapted-and-the-ever-expanding-popularity-of-sf/

Containing Matters of Masque and Basque

Timestamps:

Delany bio, non-spoiler discussion (0:00)

spoiler plot summary (26:37)

spoiler discussion (52:29)

Bibliography:

Delany, Samuel R. - "Silent Interviews" (1994)

Delany, Samuel R. - "Why I Write: Getting ready not to be", The Yale Review https://yalereview.org/article/samuel-r-delany-science-fiction-why-i-write

Delany, Samuel R., Takayuki Tatsumi- “Interview: Samuel R. Delany,” Diacritics, volume 16, issue 3 (1986)

Hardesty, William H.- “Semiotics, Space Travel, and ‘Babel-17,’” Mosaic, Volume 13, Issue 3 (1980)

Lukin, Josh - “About Samuel Delany,” The Minnesota Review, issue 65 (2006)

Samuel Delany website biography https://www.samueldelany.com/biography

Steiner, K. Leslie - "Samuel R. Delany" https://www.pseudopodium.org/repress/KLeslieSteiner-SamuelRDelany.html

Containing Matters of Merchants

Timestamps:

Jack Vance bio (0:00)

non-spoiler discussion (38:14)

spoiler plot summary (53:21)

spoiler discussion (1:39:33)

Bibliography:

Vance, Jack - "This is Me, Jack Vance" (2009)

Containing Matters of Milkweeds.

Timestamps:

introductions, recent non-podcast reads (0:00)

general overview and discussion of linguistics and science fiction (28:28)

Ursula K. Leguin - "Author of the Acacia Seeds" (1974) (1:06:09)

Bibliography:

Akmajian, Adrian et al. - "Linguistics: An Introduction to language and Communication" (2001)

Ahearn, Laura M.- "Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology" (2021)

Alim, H. Samy - "The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race" (2020)

Artichoke - "Le Guin the Reconstructionist" https://onionandartichoke.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/le-guin-the-reconstructionist/

Bakker, Peter, Yaron Matras - "Contact Languages: A Comprehensive Guide" (2013)

Burton, Strange et al. - "Linguistics for Dummies" (2012)

Dyke, Heather - "Weak Neo-Whorfianism and the Philosophy of Time," Mind and Language, volume 37 (2022)

Everett, Caleb - "A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think" (2023)

Freedman, Carl (ed). - "Conversations with Ursula K. Le Guin" (2008)

Le Guin, Ursula K. - "The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination" (2004)

Le Guin, Ursula K. - "Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places" (1989)

Sapir, Edward, Pierre Swiggers - "General Linguistics" (2008)

Sebeok, Thomas - "Perspectives in zoosemiotics" (1972)

Spivack, Charlotte - "Ursula K. Le Guin" (1984)

Stableford, Brian - "Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia" (2006)

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Westfahl, Gary (ed.) - "The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy: themes, works, and

White, Donna - "Dancing with Dragons: Ursula K. LeGuin and the Critics" (1999)

Whorf, Benjamin Lee et al.- "Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf" (2012)

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=52sjYBglBsI

Tait, Kris - "This Is Hawkwind - Do Not Panic!" (1984)

Containing Matters of Maintenance

Timestamps:

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 Vacancy

Timestamps:

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