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)

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)

wonders"

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

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)