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

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Containing Matters of ManhoodTimestamps: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=9swcMDVSYpYGold, 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

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