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Writer and podcaster Nate Crawley joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 39 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown!
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NEWS
TV The Witcher
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
GAME RimWorld - Odyssey
Queen Demon - Martha Wells
TV Severance
TROPE ON A ROPE
FILM Jurassic Park
TV Once Upon A Time
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Dead POV characters/Ontologypunk
Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
Rivers of London series - Ben Aaronovitch
Shawn McGuire
Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Twice Dead King series - Nate Crawley
The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack - Nate Crawley
FILM RoboCop
MINES OF URRGH
The Amtrak Wars - Patrick Lilley
Tomorrow When the War Began - John Marsden
The Once and Future King - T. H. White
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Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 38 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast Realms Unknown!
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NEWS
COMIC/FILM/TV Something Is Killing The Children
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
FILM Frankenstein
TROPE ON A ROPE
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
FILM Apocalypse Now
TV Arcane
FILM Doctor Who: The Movie
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Portals
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Vorkosigan Saga series - Lois McMaster Bujold
GAME Portal 2
FILM Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
TV Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden
TV Doctor Who - Timelash
TV Sliders
TV Stargate SG-1
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
Hyperion Cantos series - Dan Simmons
MINES OF URRGH
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
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Myq Kaplan joins Alice Fraser this week for another sci-fi and fantasy packed episode of Realms Unknown!
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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Antkind - Charlie Kaufman
Babel - RF Kuang
TROPE ON A ROPE
Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang
FILM Looper
TV Buffy the Vampire Slayer
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - words of power
The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
Rumplestiltskin - Jacob and Willhelm Grimm
Dylan Brody - Merlyn’s Mistake
GAME Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
GAME Myst
TV Star Trek
MINES OF URRGH
COMIC/TV The Boys - Garth Ennis
COMIC/TV Preacher - Garth Ennis
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It's an Alice-only special this week on Realms Unknown!
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NEWS
APP Sora 2
FILM Barbie
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
Damned Whores and God’s Police - Anne Summers
Queen Demon - Martha Wells
The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Carusso
Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City - K.J. Parker
TROPE ON A ROPE
Being able to cut a chain with a sword
SUB-GENRE DEEP DIVE - Fan fiction
Manacled - SenLinYu
Alchemised - SenLinYu
COMIC The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore
Sun Eater series - Christopher Ruocchio
FILM Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Licence Expired: The Unauthorised James Bond - Madeline Ashby and David Nickle
COMIC Watchmen - Alan Moore
COMIC Supreme - Alan Moore
COMIC Tom Strong - Alan Moore
COMIC Neonomicon - Alan Moore
COMIC Providence - Alan Moore
COMIC The Courtyard - Alan Moore
COMIC Jack Staff - Paul Grist
COMIC Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
COMIC Michael Fiffe - Copra
Twilight series - Stephanie Meyer
Fifty Shade of Grey - E.L. James
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Maas
AUDIOBOOK A Passion For Passion - Alice Fraser. Buy NOW!
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Chris and Alice tell the story of their experiences around Alice's hit book A Passion For Passion. A book that has generated over £50,000 in sales (maybe much more), yet we have barely seen a Penny. We tell the story of the publishers Unbound and Boundless who collapsed in debt, having failed to deliver for us (and a bunch of other authors).
BUT, we won't give up. We'll fight for our money, and we have released it, in full as an Audiobook, available now... https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/
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Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for another sci-fi and fantasy packed episode of Realms Unknown!
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NEWS
TV Doctor Who
PLAY Amadeus
GAME Fortnite
TV The Boys
TV Peacemaker
FILM A Nightmare On Elm Street
FILM Longlegs
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING?
Alien:Earth
MINES OF UURGH
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
PLAY Harry Potter & The Cursed Child
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Post-colonial African sci fi and fantasy meeting Western Anglosphere markets
TV Doctor Who - The Story and the Engine
Rosewater - Tade Thompson (from the Wormwood trilogy)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
FILM District 9
FILM Elysium
FILM Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
Out There Screaming - Jordan Peele
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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the brilliant Eleanor Morton!
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Reading list to follow!
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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the satisfyingly and unrelentingly competent Tom Neenan! (The Mash Report, The Hauntening)
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NEWS
TV Severance
TV Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
FILM The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
FILM Dune
TV Twisted Metal
FILM The Creator
TV Outlander: Blood of My Blood
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
TV Only Murders In The Building
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
TROPE ON A ROPE
Something has happened here…
Straight to camera blogging as disasters unfold
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - competence
The Martian - Andy Weir
FILM The Martian
FILM All Is Lost
FILM Die Hard
FILM The Mechanic
The Expanse series - James S. A. Corey
TV The Expanse
FILMS The Bourne franchise
Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
FILM Snatch
TV Doctor Who - Midnight episode
TV Columbo
TV Poirot
TV Jonathan Creek
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
MINES OF EURGH
FILM Ready Player One
Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc
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Joining Alice Fraser this week is Realms Unknown firm favourite Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).
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NEWS
FILM Star Wars: Starfighter
FILM K-Pop Demon Hunters
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN INTO?
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix
Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix
My Best Friend’s Exorcism - Grady Hendrix
Clockwork Boys - T. Kingfisher
The Wonder Engine - T. Kingfisher
TROPE ON A ROPE
FILM Mulan
Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
DEEP DIVE - the paladin
Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold
FILM Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
TV Doctor Who - Revelation of the Daleks
COMIC Die - Kieron Gillen
MINES OF URRGH
Rapunzel
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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the mighty Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).
The subgenre deep dive this week looks at bodies / good use of embodiment - such as body swapping in Altered Carbon or Cronenbergian body horror. Tom espouses that 2025 has seen the greatest summer for cinematic horror in recent memory, discusses the trope of befuzzled kings leaving a trail of chaos in their wake, and feels a bit eurrgh about campery being shorthand for villainy.
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NEWS
FILM Red Sonja
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
FILM 28 Years Later
FILM Bring Her Back
FILM Weapons
FILM Together
Swordheart - T Kingfisher
TROPE ON A ROPE
Befuzzled kings and the chaos they leave in their wake
Looking in the mirror, pulling at something and creating a Cronenbergian horror
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - bodies
FILM Looper
FILM Together
TV Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy
TV Doctor Who - Into The Dalek
FILM Tusk
PODCAST Smodcast
Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis
Ghost In The Shell
Dune - Frank Herbert
TV Alien: Earth
FILM Ex Machina
MINES OF EURRGH
Campery to mean villainy
FILM Jupiter Ascending
TV Twilight
FILM The Little Mermaid
FILM The Lion King
FILM Robin Hood
FILM The Fifth Element
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Alice Fraser is joined this week by Jen Prokop from the Fated Mates romance podcast, so expect a lot of romance recommendations and tropes!
The subgenre deep dive looks into interesting uses of POV, and Jen is uncomfortable with the increasing use of violence in romance books but enjoyed the romance elements in recent films Superman and Sinners.
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Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!
They discuss time loops in sci-fi, the tropes of hypersexualised futures and post-coital never-nudes, and whether prison 'relationships' belong in the mines of urrggh!
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NEWS
FILM Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
FILM Spider-Man: Brand New Day
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING?
FILM Sinners
FILM Bring Her Back
TROPE ON A ROPE
Hypersexualised futures
FILM Blade Runner 2045
FILM Showgirls
FILM Starship Troopers
FILM The Fifth Element
Never nudes in sexy scenes
FILM Sex and the City
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - time loops
FILM Groundhog Day
Strange Life of Ivan Osokin - P. D. Ouspensky
TV The Twilight Zone ‘Shadow Play’
FILM Edge of Tomorrow
TV Russian Doll
FILM Happy Death Day
FILM Happy Death Day 2 U
TV Doctor Who - Eve of the Daleks
FILM Source Code
FILM Twelve Monkeys
FILM Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
PLAY Ghost Stories
FILM Triangle
TV Doctor Who - Heaven Sent
TV Dark
MINES OF URRGH
Bourne series - Robert Ludlum
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Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!
They discuss Arthurian legend in fantasy (and some sci-fi), David Bowie's tights in Labyrinth, and audible sharpness (*insert your own sword noise here!*)
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NEWS
FILM The Odyssey
TV Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING?
Perfume - Patrick Süskind
The Emperor’s Blades - Brian Staveley
The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam - Megan Bannen
TROPE ON A ROPE - audible sharpness
FILM Robin Hood
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Arthurian legends
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
FILM The Sword and the Stone
FILM Star Wars
FILM Harry Potter
TV Merlin (Sam Neill)
FILM Monty Python and the Holy Grail
PODCAST Camlann
TV The Rottentrolls
TV Sir Gadabout - The Worst Knight in the Land
FILM The Green Knight
The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper
POEM The Dragons of Dinas Emrys - Pendaran
TV Merlin (BBC)
COMIC Camelot 3000
MINES OF URRGH
FILM Labyrinth
Avalon series - Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Come journey into Realms Unknown with Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan for a whole world of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!
We discuss the use of disguises in genre fiction, the hot commie summer, and ominous portents that have double meanings.
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING?
FILM Superman
Buffalo Soldiers - Maurice Broaddus
TROPE ON A ROPE - ominous portents that have double meanings
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Deadly Education - Naomi Novik
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - disguises
FILM Snow White
FILM Superman
A Court of Thorn and Roses - Sarah J. Maas
TV Quantum Leap
TV Foundation
FILM Smile
FILM Smile 2
TV Doctor Who - Terror of the Zygons
TV Orphan Black
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Song of the Lioness series - Tamora Pierce
TV Secret Invasion
FILM Mission: Impossible series
TV Doctor Who - World Enough and Time
MINES OF URRGH
FILM Johnny Mnemonic
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Come journey into Realms Unknown with Alice Fraser and podcasting legend Chris Skinner for a whole world of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!
We discuss medieval fayres (jousting, anyone?), K Pop Demon Hunters and A Court of Thorns and Roses.
Our Trope On A Rope is characters who learn to fight way to easily, and then the one who can land the lucky punch with zero training.
We also get the ick thinking about Red Sonja.
Our genre deep dive is comedy in speculative:
All Discworld Books
Rick and Morty
Red Dwarf
The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
All My Friends Are Superheroes
Gideon The Ninth
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Come journey into Realms Unknown with Alice Fraser and US comedian and podcaster Jackie Kashian for a whole world of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!
NEWS
Isles of the Emberdark - Brandon Sanderson
Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson
Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
WHAT ARE YOU INTO?
GAME Clank!
GAME Lords of Waterdeep
Sabriel - Garth Nix
Lirael - Garth Nix
Abhorsen - Garth Nix
Sinister Booksellers of Bath - Garth Nix
Dragonsong - Anne McCaffrey
Dragonsinger - Anne McCaffrey
Dragondrums - Anne McCaffrey
The Dolphins of Pern - Anne McCaffrey
A Forbidden Alchemy - Stacey McEwan
COMIC The Uncanny X-Men - Gail Simone
COMIC Ironwood - Bill Willingham
COMIC Jack of Fables - Bill Willingham
COMIC Oglaf - Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne
COMIC Giant Days - John Allison
TROPE ON A ROPE
COMIC Thunderbolts
COMIC Lucifer
COMIC Secret Six
COMIC 100 Bullets
COMIC The Boys
DEEP DIVE - redemption arcs
The Chronicles of Severian the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
Illusions - Richard Bach (Messiah story)
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein (Messiah story)
MOVIE Thunderbolts*
MOVIE Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Prince of Thorns - Mark Lawrence
COMIC - Lucifer
TV Lucifer
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
TV Resident Alien
COMIC Irredeemable - Mark Waid
COMIC Incorruptible - Mark Waid
MINES OF URRGH
FILM You’ve Got Mail
FILM Pillow Talk
FILM Casablanca
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Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 24 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!
Episode 24
This week's news covers the Squid Game USA spinoff, Disney suing AI image generator Midjourney, and a mother suing Disney after a Stormtrooper scared her child, causing injury. Hear what Tom and Alice have been enjoying recently, men slaps and silly old women with health issues are the tropes on the rope this week and they venture into the 'mines of urrgh'. The sub genre deep dive is flintlock fantasy - combining gunpowder-era warfare with magic!
And hear the EXCLUSIVE breaking news as Tom coins what may be a brand-new genre - culturepunk. You (possibly) heard it here first!
Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion
News
TV Squid Game USA
What have you been into of late?
FILM 28 Years Later
Gods of Blood and Powder - Brian McClennan
FILM M3GAN 2.0
Sub genre deep dive - flintlock fiction
TV Sharpe
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - K. J. Parker
The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne - Brian Staveley
GAME Dungeons & Dragons Spelljammer
TV Shadow and Bone
Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo
The Cardinal’s Blades - Pierre Pevel
The Phoenix Guards - Steven Brust
Five Hundred Years After - Steven Brust
GAME Assassin’s Creed
Mines of Urrgh
FILM 28 Years Later
FILM Severance
FILM Predator
FILM Snow White
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Alice Fraser and James Nokise bring you episode 23 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!
Episode 23
This week's news covers The Odyssey, Masters of the Universe and the Highlander remake, and James and Alice dive into all manner of good things sci fi and fantasy. The sub genre deep dive is all about side characters as leads!
Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion
James Nokise - PODCAST The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior
News
FILM The Odyssey
FILM Masters of the Universe
FILM Highlander
Ads
GAME Hero’s Quest
GAME Police Quest
GAME Space Quest
What have you been enjoying?
GAMES Final Fantasy
Lirael - Garth Nix
Sub genre deep dive - side characters as leads
PLAY Rosencratz and Guildenstein Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
TV Dollhouse - Joss Whedon
The Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster Bujold
GAME Final Fantasy XII
Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold
FILM Solo
The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolf
TV Star Trek: Lower Decks
Redshirts - John Scalzi
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Magician - Raymond E. Feist
Mines of Urrgh
The Belgariad - David Eddings
FILM The Sword and the Sorcerer
FILM Close Encounters of the Third Kind
FILM Popeye
FILM Masters of the Universe
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Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 22 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!
Episode 22
This week's news respectfully looks at buff geek Henry Cavill's forthcoming Highlander movie, and Tom and Alice dive into all manner of good things sci fi and fantasy. This week's deep dive is all about translated works!
Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion
Alice Fraser - Calm World: Introduction to Meditation
Tom Neenan - Zeroes - David Reed
News
FILM Highlander
APP Zombies! Run!
What have you been enjoying?
FILM Under The Skin
Under The Skin - Michael Faber
Behooved - M. Stevenson
Trope on a rope - bikini armour / warrior maiden vagina chokehold
Jill Bearup - Just Stab Me Now
Sub genre deep dive - sci fi and fantasy in translation
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Beowulf - Maria Dahvana Headley
Beowulf - Seamus Heany
Asterix & Obelix
The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
The Melting - Lize Spit
ANIME Neon Genesis Evangelion
TV Dark
The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
FILM The City of Lost Children
Mines of Urrgh
FILM Elysium
FILM Mountainhead
Mr Men - Roger Hargreaves
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