Chrononauts
By JM, Gretchen and Nate
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Episodes: 158
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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
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
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Más Allá and the Oesterhelds | Chrononauts Episode 54.4
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May 09, 2026 |
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Sandro Sandrelli - "The Prototype" (1961) | Chrononauts Episode 54.3
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May 06, 2026 |
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Luigi Cozzi - "Rainy Day Revolution No. 39" (1965) | Chrononauts Episode 54.2
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May 01, 2026 |
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - "Wanderers and Travellers" (1963) | Chrononauts Episode 54.1
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Theodore Sturgeon - "Slow Sculpture" (1970) | Chrononauts Episode 53.6
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Margaret St. Clair - "Roberta" (1962) | Chrononauts Episode 53.5
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Mar 21, 2026 |
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R.A. Lafferty - "Rainbird" (1961) | Chrononauts Episode 53.4
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Zenna Henderson - "Something Bright" (1960) | Chrononauts Episode 53.3
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Mar 14, 2026 |
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C.M. Kornbluth - "The Marching Morons" (1951) | Chrononauts Episode 53.2
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Katherine MacLean - "Contagion" (1950) | Chrononauts Episode 53.1
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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Suzette Haden Elgin - "Native Tongue" (1984) | Chrononauts Episode 52
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Karel Čapek - "War with the Newts" (1936) | Chrononauts Episode 51
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Leigh Brackett - "Enchantress of Venus" (1949) | Chrononauts Episode 50.3
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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C.L. Moore - "Shambleau" (1933) | Chrononauts Episode 50.2
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Edgar Rice Burroughs - "A Princess of Mars" (1912) | Chrononauts Episode 50.1
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - "Roadside Picnic" (1972) | Chrononauts Episode 49
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Ted Chiang - "Story of Your Life" (1998) | Chrononauts Episode 48.4
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Samuel Delany - "Babel-17" (1966) | Chrononauts Episode 48.3
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Jack Vance - "The Languages of Pao" (1958) | Chrononauts Episode 48.2
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Ursula K. Le Guin - "Author of the Acacia Seeds" (1974) | Chrononauts Episode 48.1
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Hawkwind: 1980-1995 | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 7.2
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May 22, 2025 |
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Hawkwind: 1969-1979 | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 7.1
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May 11, 2025 |
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Philip K. Dick - "The Last of the Masters" (1954) | Chrononauts Episode 47.5
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Isaac Asimov - "Nightfall" (1941) | Chrononauts Episode 47.4
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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W.E.B. Du Bois - "The Comet" (1920) | Chrononauts Episode 47.3
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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S. Belsky - "Under the Comet" (1910) | Chrononauts Episode 47.2
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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Amado Nervo - "The Last War"(~1906) | Chrononauts Episode 47.1
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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James Tiptree, jr - "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" (1973) | Chrononauts Episode 46.6
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Harlan Ellison - "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" (1967) | Chrononauts Episode 46.5
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Dec 07, 2024 |
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Frederik Pohl - "We Purchased People" (1974) | Chrononauts Episode 46.4
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Gerald Kersh - "The Brighton Monster" (1948) | Chrononauts Episode 46.3
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Sakyo Komatsu - "The Savage Mouth" (1979) | Chrononauts Episode 46.2
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Kylas Chunder Dutt - "A Journal of 48 Hours In The Year 1945" (1835) | Chrononauts Episode 46.1
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Best and Worst of the Last 14 Episodes | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 6
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Edward Page Mitchell - "The Man Without a Body" (1877) | Chrononauts Episode 45.5
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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W.C. Morrow - "The Monster Maker" (1887) | Chrononauts Episode 45.4
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Ronald Ross - "The Vivisector Vivisected" (1882) | Chrononauts Episode 45.3
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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H.G. Wells - "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896) | Chrononauts Episode 45.2
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Aug 31, 2024 |
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H.G. Wells - "Under the Knife" (1896) | Chrononauts Episode 45.1
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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P.D. James - "The Children of Men" (1992) | Chrononauts Episode 44.4
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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E.M. Forster - "Little Imber" (1961) | Chrononauts Episode 44.3
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Judith Merril - "That Only a Mother" (1948) | Chrononauts Episode 44.2
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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David H. Keller, MD - "Unto Us a Child is Born" (1933) | Chrononauts Episode 44.1
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Anna Barkova - "A Steel Husband" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.5
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Mikhail Zuev-Ordynets - "The Lord of Sound" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.4
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Yelyzaveta Kardynalovska - "Death of the Happy City" (1926) | Chrononauts Episode 43.3
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Vladimir Orlovsky - "Steckerite" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 43.2
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Alexey Volkov - "Aliens" (1928) | Chrononauts Episode 43.1
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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More Fritz Leiber "Change War" Shorts | Chrononauts Episode 42.3
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Fritz Leiber's "Change War" short stories | Chrononauts Episode 42.2
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Fritz Leiber - "The Big Time" (1958) | Chrononauts Episode 42.1
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Jim Mortimore - "Eye of Heaven" (1998) | Chrononauts Episode 41.2
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Diane Duane - "The Wounded Sky" (1983) | Chrononauts Episode 41.1
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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C.L. Moore - "Greater than Gods" (1939) | Chrononauts Episode 40.7
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Amelia Reynolds Long - "When the Half Gods Go" (1939) | Chrononauts Episode 40.6
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Ross Rocklynne - "The Moth" | Chrononauts Episode 40.5
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Nelson Bond - "Lightship, Ho!" (1939) | Chrononauts Episode 40.4
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Nat Schachner - "City of the Cosmic Rays" (1939) | Chrononauts Episode 40.3
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Isaac Asimov - "Trends" (1939) | Chrononauts Episode 40.2
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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A. E. van Vogt - "Black Destroyer" (1939) | Chrononauts Episode 40.1
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Voivod Discography Ranking | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 5
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Fandom, Fanzines and Fanfiction | Chrononauts Episode 39
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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John W. Campbell - "Who Goes There?" (1938) | Chrononauts Episode 38.6
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Harry Bates - "Alas, All Thinking!" (1935) | Chrononauts Episode 38.5
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Raymond Z. Gallun - "Old Faithful" (1934) | Chrononauts Episode 38.4
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Murray Leinster - "Sidewise in Time" (1934) | Chrononauts Episode 38.3
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Sophie Wenzel Ellis - "Creatures of the Light" (1930) | Chrononauts Episode 38.2
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Captain S. P. Meek - "The Cave of Horror" (1930) | Chrononauts Episode 38.1
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Renato Pestriniero - "A Night of 21 Hours" (1960) | Chrononauts Episode 37.3
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Graal Arelsky - "Tales of Mars" (1925) | Chrononauts Episode 37.2
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Harry Martinson - "Aniara" (1956) | Chrononauts Episode 37.1
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Fitz-James O'Brien - "The Wondersmith" (1859) | Chrononauts Episode 36.4
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Robotics in the Soviet Union and Russian Empire | Chrononauts Episode 36.3
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Karel Čapek - "Rossum's Universal Robots" (1920) | Chrononauts Episode 36.2
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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E.M. Forster - "The Machine Stops" (1909) | Chrononauts Episode 36.1
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Robotics and the Domestic Sphere | Chrononauts Episode 35.3
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Karl Hans Strobl - "The Triumph of Mechanics" (1907) | Chrononauts Episode 35.2
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Samuel Butler - "Erewhon" (1872) | Chrononauts Episode 35.1
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner - "Vintage Season" (1946) | Chrononauts Episode 34.3
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Poul Anderson - "The Man Who Came Early" (1956) | Chrononauts Episode 34.2
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Mar 25, 2023 |
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L. Sprague de Camp - "Lest Darkness Fall" (1939) | Chrononauts Episode 34.1
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Mark Twain - "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889) | Chrononauts Episode 33
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Octavia E. Butler - "Kindred" (1979) | Chrononauts Episode 32
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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2022 Review | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 4
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Leigh Brackett - "No Man's Land in Space" (1941) | Chrononauts Episode 31.6
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Jack Williamson - "The Prince of Space" (1931) | Chrononauts Episode 31.5
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Minna Irving - "The Moon Woman" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 31.4
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Leslie F. Stone - "Out of the Void" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 31.3
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Lucile Taylor Hansen - "The Undersea Tube" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 31.2
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Hugo Gernsback, Amazing Stories and H.G. Wells' "New Accelerator" | Chrononauts Episode 31.1
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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William Hope Hodgson - "Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder", pt. 2 | Chrononauts Episode 30.2
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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William Hope Hodgson - "Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder", pt. 1 | Chrononauts Episode 30.1
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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H.P. Lovecraft - "Herbert West - Reanimator" (1922) | Chrononauts Episode 29.3
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Reanimated Severed Heads | Chrononauts Episode 29.2
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Olaf Stapledon - "Sirius" (1944) | Chrononauts Episode 29.1
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Souls, Beasts and Squids | Chrononauts Episode 28.2
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Jul 23, 2022 |
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Mikhail Bulgakov - "A Dog's Heart" (1925) | Chrononauts Episode 28.1
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Charles H. Hinton - "An Unfinished Communication" (1885) | Chrononauts Episode 27.3
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Jun 25, 2022 |
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The Funnelheads' Magic Mirror | Chrononauts Episode 27.2
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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William Hope Hodgson - "The House on the Borderland" (1908) | Chrononauts Episode 27.1
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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The Hidden Martians Among Us | Chrononauts Episode 26.2
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May 28, 2022 |
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Spies and Detectives | Chrononauts Episode 26.1
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May 26, 2022 |
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Strange Forces and Devilish Rays | Chrononauts Episode 25.2
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Future War and Weapons | Chrononauts Episode 25.1
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Curves and Orbits | Chrononauts Episode 24.4
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Jean Ray - "The Mainz Psalter" (1930) | Chrononauts Episode 24.3
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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Atlantis and Valhalla | Chrononauts Episode 24.2
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Mar 19, 2022 |
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H.P. Lovecraft and Weird Tales | Chrononauts Episode 24.1
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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E.H. Visiak - "Medusa" (1929) | Chrononauts Episode 23.2
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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The Sea and William Hope Hodgson | Chrononauts Episode 23.1
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Electromagnetic Spiritualism in the Northern Sky | Chrononauts Episode 22.3
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Jules Verne - "The Sphinx of the Ice Realm" (1897) | Chrononauts Episode 22.2
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Edgar Allan Poe - "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1838) | Chrononauts Episode 22.1
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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New Introductions | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 3
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Garrett Serviss - "Edison's Conquest of Mars" (1898) | Chrononauts Episode 21.3
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Metallic Vehicular Animals | Chrononauts Episode 21.2
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Nov 27, 2021 |
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Edison, Tesla and a New Steam Man | Chrononauts Episode 21.1
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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The Wireless Broadcast | Chrononauts Episode 20.2
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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The Electric Telegraph | Chrononauts Episode 20.1
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Edwin Abbott Abbott - "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" (1884) | Chrononauts Episode 19.3
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Five Brief Theorems | Chrononauts Episode 19.2
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Mathematics and 'Pataphysics | Chrononauts Episode 19.1
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Maracot Deep" (1928-29) | Chrononauts Episode 18.3
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Oshikawa Shunrō - "The Undersea Warship: A Fantastic Tale of Island Adventure" (1900) | Chrononauts Episode 18.2
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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The Submarine and Jules Verne | Chrononauts Episode 18.1
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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Rudyard Kipling's Aerial Board of Control | Chrononauts Episode 17.2
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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George Griffith - "The Angel of the Revolution" (1893) | Chrononauts Episode 17.1
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Herrmann Lang - "The Air Battle" (1859) | Chrononauts Episode 16.3
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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H.G. Wells - "The War in the Air" (1908)| Chrononauts Episode 16.2
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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The Aeroplane: An introduction, a history, and a reading | Chrononauts Episode 16.1
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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An Additional Assessment | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 2
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Nictzin Dyalhis - "When the Green Star Waned" (1925) | Chrononauts Episode 15.11
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Miguel de Unamuno - "Mechanopolis" (1913) | Chrononauts Episode 15.10
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford - "The Ray of Displacement" (1903) | Chrononauts Episode 15.9
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace - "Where the Air Quivered" (1898) | Chrononauts Episode 15.8
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Jagadish Chandra Bose - "Runaway Cyclone" (1896/1921) | Chrononauts Episode 15.7
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Charles Epheyre - "Professor Bakermann's Microbe" (1890) | Chrononauts Episode 15.6
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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J.-H. Rosny - "Tornadres" (1888) | Chrononauts Episode 15.5
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Nilo María Fabra - "Teitan the Proud - Tale of Things to Come" (1895) | Chrononauts Episode 15.4
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Clarín - "Future Story" (1892) | Chrononauts Episode 15.3
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Robert W. Chambers - "The Repairer of Reputations" (1895) | Chrononauts Episode 15.2
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Ten Steps on the Quest for Genre: Introduction and a history of the magazine | Chrononauts Episode 15.1
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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The Interplanetary Gnosis, part 2: Out of the Silent Planet | Chrononauts Episode 14
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May 08, 2021 |
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The Interplanetary Gnosis, part 1: A Voyage to Arcturus | Chrononauts Episode 13
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May 07, 2021 |
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The Spiritualist Revelation | Chrononauts Episode 12
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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The Mesmeric Trance | Chrononauts Episode 11
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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The Feminist Utopia and the Anti-feminist Dystopia | Chrononauts Episode 10
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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The Hollow Earth, part 2: Adventures at the Center | Chrononauts Episode 9
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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The Hollow Earth, part 1: Preliminary Drillings | Chrononauts Episode 8
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Automata | Chrononauts Episode 7
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Initial reflections | Chrononauts Bonus Episode 1
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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The Temporal Traveller | Chrononauts Episode 6
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Selenomania! | Chrononauts Episode 5
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Ten Steps on the Quest for the Ideal | Chrononauts Episode 4
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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The Mummy from Star Psi! | Chrononauts Episode 3
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Mary Shelley | Chrononauts Episode 2
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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The Imaginary Traveller | Chrononauts Episode 1
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Introductions, Genre and Scope | Chrononauts Episode 0
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May 31, 2020 |