Reanimated Severed Heads | Chrononauts Episode 29.2

Containing matters in which vars. Experiments pertaining to Cranial Rejuvenation are performed by the Empire and the People.

Timestamps:

Carl Grunert - "Mr. Vivacius Style" (1908) (0:00)

Alexander Belyaev - "Professor Dowell's Head" (1925) - background and non-spoiler discussion (28:45)

"Professor Dowell's Head" spoiler summary and discussion (55:28)

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Banerjee, Anindita (ed.) - "Russian Science Fiction Literature And Cinema: A Critical Reader" (2018)

Bar-Sella, Zeev - "Alexander Belyaev" (2013)

Krementsov, Nikolai - "Off with your heads: isolated organs in early Soviet science and fiction", Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, June 2009

O'Brien, Frank - "The Story of the Sun, 1833-1918" (1918)

Rottensteiner, Franz (ed.) "The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany and Austria" (2008)