Katherine MacLean - "Contagion" (1950) | Chrononauts Episode 53.1

Containing Matters of Manhood

Timestamps:

introductions, non-podcast reads (0:00)

Galaxy magazine background (16:46)

Katherine MacLean biography, non-spoiler discussion (35:07)

plot summary, spoiler discussion (56:36)

Bibliography:

Ashley, Mike - "Transformations; The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970" (2005)

Delaney, Samuel - interview with Katherine Maclean at Readercon 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9swcMDVSYpY

Gold, Horace Leonard - "What Will They Think of Last - SF for Fun and Profit From the Inside" (1976)

MacLean, Katherine - "The Expanding Mind" from "Fantastic Lives - Autobiographical Essays by Notable Science Fiction Writers" (1981)

Pohl, Frederik - "The Way the Future Was" (1978)

Rosheim, David - "Galaxy Magazine: The Dark and the Light Years" (1986)

Schweitzer, Darrell - "An Interview with Katherine MacLean", The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2013