Science Fiction and Arthur Conan Doyle, with Anastasia Klimchynskaya

About this episode

Dr. Anastasia Klimchynskaya discusses the intersection of Arthur Conan Doyle's work and science fiction.

This month, we are delighted to welcome to the podcast Dr Anastasia Klimchynskaya to talk all things Arthur Conan Doyle and Science Fiction. Anastasia Klimchynskaya Anastasia is a scholar of nineteenth-century literature, particularly science fiction, and is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University in the USA. She has presented widely on Sherlock Holmes, Jules Verne, Frankenstein, and science fiction, and contributed to the Rosenbach Museum and Library's Sherlock Monthly webinar series. She is also the author of Science Fiction and the Modern World, a sweeping study of the emergence of science fiction in the nineteenth century, which has just been published by Liverpool University Press. https://www.anaklimchy.com/ Books by Anastasia: Anastasia Klimchynskaya, Science Fiction and the Modern World (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2026) - https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836244905 Anastasia Klimchynskaya (ed.), From the Earth to the Moon, Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age (Forthcoming) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553865/from-the-earth-to-the-moon/ Next time on Doings of Doyle… For our 75th episode, we cover…

People in this episode

Guest: Anastasia Klimchynskaya

Topics covered

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Science Fiction
• Nineteenth-century literature
• Sherlock Holmes
• Literary scholarship

Keywords

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• science fiction
• Anastasia Klimchynskaya
• literature
• Sherlock Holmes

Sponsors

Belanger Books

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Illinois Wesleyan University, Liverpool University Press

Books & works: Science Fiction and the Modern World, From the Earth to the Moon, Annotated for Our Spacefaring Age

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