115 episodes

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: chrononautspodcast@gmail.com
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

Chrononauts JM, Gretchen and Nate

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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: chrononautspodcast@gmail.com
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

    Anna Barkova - "A Steel Husband" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.5

    Anna Barkova - "A Steel Husband" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.5

    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

    • 54 min
    Mikhail Zuev-Ordynets - "The Lord of Sound" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.4

    Mikhail Zuev-Ordynets - "The Lord of Sound" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.4

    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

    • 29 min
    Yelyzaveta Kardynalovska - "Death of the Happy City" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.3

    Yelyzaveta Kardynalovska - "Death of the Happy City" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.3

    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

    • 39 min
    Vladimir Orlovsky - "Steckerite" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 43.2

    Vladimir Orlovsky - "Steckerite" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 43.2

    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

    • 28 min
    Alexey Volkov - "Aliens" (1928) | Chrononauts Episode 43.1

    Alexey Volkov - "Aliens" (1928) | Chrononauts Episode 43.1

    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

    • 1 hr 20 min
    More Fritz Leiber "Change War" Shorts | Chrononauts Episode 42.3

    More Fritz Leiber "Change War" Shorts | Chrononauts Episode 42.3

    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)

    • 1 hr 15 min

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