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164 episodes
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English
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Date created
2020/06/04
Latest episode
2026/09/08
Average duration
69 min.
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13 days

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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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"Dangerous Visions" (1967), vol. 3, Part 2 | Chrononauts Episode 55.4
2026/09/08
Containing Matters of Miscreancy Timestamps: John Brunner - "Judas" (0:00) Keith Laumer - "Test to Destruction" (15:09) Norman Spinrad - "Carcinoma Angels" (23:44) Roger Zelazny - "Auto-da-Fé" (41:16) Samuel R. Delany - "Aye, and Gomorrah..." (56:19) closing reflections (1:16:15)
"Dangerous Visions" (1967), vol. 3, Part 1 | Chrononauts Episode 55.3
2026/08/10
Containing Matters of Miscreancy Timestamps: Theodore Sturgeon - "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" (0:00) Larry Eisenberg - "What Happened to Auguste Clarot?" (35:31) Henry Slesar - "Ersatz" (46:13) Sonya Dorman - "Go, Go, Go, Said the Bird" (51:36) John Sladek - "The Happy Breed" (1:08:58) Jonathan Brand - "Encounter with a Hick" (1:48:32) Kris Neville - "From the Government Printing Office" (1:51:34) R. A. Lafferty - "Land of the Great Horses" (2:06:17) J. G. Ballard - "The Recognition" (2:12:46) Bibliography: Yaszek, Lisa - "Sonya Dorman" https://womensf.loa.org/sonya-dorman/
"Dangerous Visions" (1967), vol. 2 | Chrononauts Episode 55.2
2026/07/20
Containing Matters of Miscreancy Timestamps: Howard Rodman - "The Man Who Went to the Moon - Twice" (0:00) Philip K. Dick - "Faith of Our Fathers" (17:08) Larry Niven - "The Jigsaw Man" (54:33) Fritz Leiber - "Gonna Roll the Bones" (1:03:14) Joe L. Hensley - "Lord Randy, My Son" (1:14:00) Poul Anderson - "Eutopia" (1:20:06) David R. Bunch - "Incident in Moderan" and "The Escaping" (1:32:43) James Cross - "The Doll-House" (2:01:04) Carol Emshwiller - "Sex and/or Mr. Morrison" (2:05:58) Damon Knight - "Shall the Dust Praise Thee?" (2:13:37) Bibliography: Nette, Andrew & McIntyre, Iain (eds.) - "Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985" (2021)
"Dangerous Visions" (1967), vol. 1 | Chrononauts Episode 55.1
2026/07/11
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)
Francisco Baltzer - "Summer Vacation" (1955) | Chrononauts Episode 54.6
2026/05/22
Containing Matters of Mimicry Bibliography: Abraham, Carlos - "Las revistas argentinas de ciencia ficción" (2018)
Oscar Varsavsky - "The Crimes of the LIO" (1953-54) | Chrononauts Episode 54.5
2026/05/15
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)
Más Allá and the Oesterhelds | Chrononauts Episode 54.4
2026/05/09
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
Sandro Sandrelli - "The Prototype" (1961) | Chrononauts Episode 54.3
2026/05/06
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/
Luigi Cozzi - "Rainy Day Revolution No. 39" (1965) | Chrononauts Episode 54.2
2026/05/01
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/
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - "Wanderers and Travellers" (1963) | Chrononauts Episode 54.1
2026/04/26
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
Theodore Sturgeon - "Slow Sculpture" (1970) | Chrononauts Episode 53.6
2026/03/22
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)
Margaret St. Clair - "Roberta" (1962) | Chrononauts Episode 53.5
2026/03/21
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)
R.A. Lafferty - "Rainbird" (1961) | Chrononauts Episode 53.4
2026/03/17
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
Zenna Henderson - "Something Bright" (1960) | Chrononauts Episode 53.3
2026/03/14
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/
C.M. Kornbluth - "The Marching Morons" (1951) | Chrononauts Episode 53.2
2026/03/13
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)

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Troughton is my Doctor 2020/10/26
The early history of science fiction in depth
JM and Nate have been working their way through the early years of science fiction literature. They go into much depth, and also explore more than ju...
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