Today’s show considers some of the ways that science fiction has drawn inspiration from planetary science.
Host essay: “Dying Planet”
- for further reading:
- Robert Markley, Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005).
- Michael J. Crowe, The Extraterrestrial Life Debate 1750-1900: The Idea of a Plurality of Worlds from Kant to Lowell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
- Richard Grove, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860, new ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Guest essay:
Megan Healy, “Attack of the Lady Scientists!”
- films referenced in this essay:
- Tarantula (1955)
- Rocket Ship X-M (1950)
- for further reading:
- Bonnie Noonan, Women Scientists in Fifties Science Fiction Films (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005).
- Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoffrey Rayner-Canham, Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Washington, DC: American Chemical Society, 1998).
- Margaret Rossiter, Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
- Megan Healy graduated in May from Southwestern University, where she concentrated on theater, French, and feminist studies. She begins law school at Tulane next month.
Audio credits:
- All music on this program courtesy of the Podsafe Music Network:
- Sunburn in Cyprus, History (intro & outro)
- 3vr3n, Spaces (in background during host essay)
- 3rd Man, Entropology (in interludes during host essay)
- The WindowPanes, Mars Needs Beef (following host essay)
- Jimmy Golding, Supernatural Girl (following guest essay)
- Happy Gemini 3, Pondering the 10th Planet (transitions)
Guest voices:
Jack Green Musselman
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