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A Trade of Blood - Robert Jackson Bennett

Platform Decay - Martha Wells

Queen Demon - Martha Wells

Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman

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Twelve Months - Jim Butcher

TV Silo

The Tapestry of Fate - Shannon Chakraborty

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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

FILM Batman

TV Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

Gumnut Babies - May Gibbs

Wallet Babies - May Gibbs

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King’s Watch series - Mark Hayden

TROPE ON A ROPE

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GAME Subnautica

GAME Borderlands

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FILM Godzilla vs Kong

Perdido Street Station - China Miéville

Shadow of the Gods series - John Gwynne

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SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Unfiction / fictional non-fiction

Dinotopia series - James Gurney

Expedition - Wayne Barlowe

PODCAST Revolutions - Mike Duncan

The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island - Weta Workshop

FILM King Kong

GAME Neuorocracy

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MINES OF URRGH

The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson

TV Wolf Hall

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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

GAME Spirit Island

Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson

All Fours - Miranda July

The 13th Witch - Mark Hayden

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Choose Your Own Adventure

SHOW The Dark Room - John Robertson

Fighting Fantasy series - Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone

FILM Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman

FILM Groundhog Day

Vulcanverse - Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson

To Be Or Not To Be - Ryan North

Romeo And/Or Juliet - Ryan North

GRAPHIC NOVEL: Star Trek: Lower Decks - Warp Your Own Way - Ryan North

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MINES OF URRGH

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FILM The Running Man

The Will of the Many - James Islington

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Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

TV Tumble Leaf

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Iterations

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TV IT: Welcome To Derry

FILM The Fly

FILM Alien

FILM Aliens

FILM Nosferatu

Circe - Madelline Miller

Song of Achilles - Madelline Miller

Stone Blind - Natalie Haynes

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

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MINES OF URRGH

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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

FILM Predator: Badlands

Queen Demon - Martha Wells

The Flashman Papers - George MacDonald Fraser

TV Plur1bus - Vince Gilligan

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Villains as heroes

Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

Dune - Frank Herbert

FILM Jurassic Park

FILM A Nightmare on Elm Street

FILM Child’s Play

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FILM Apocalypse Now

FILM Saving Private Ryan

FILM Wolf Creek

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Hannibal

MINES OF URRGH

FILM Wanted

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen R. Donaldson

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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 Crowley

The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack - Nate Crowley

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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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

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The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman

Hyperion Cantos series - Dan Simmons

MINES OF URRGH

The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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NEWS

Who Is Elara Voss?

FILM Highlander

TV Outlander

Epic Games secures legal win against Google

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

Superman

Sinners

TROPE ON A ROPE

Jack Reacher series - Lee Child

The Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - single POV

The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison

Not Your Sidekick - C.B. Lee

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

The Baby Dragon Cafe - A.T. Qureshi

The Baby Dragon Bakery - A.T. Qureshi

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

MINES OF EURRGH

Girls and their dragons

Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

Jack West Jr series - Matthew Reilly

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

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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 Tom Neenan are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This week, it's all about neurodivergent heroes in sci-fi and fantasy!

Episode 20

This week's news features Guillermo del Toro's new Frankenstein movie, the new Predator: Killer of Killers movie and is gravity proof that life on Earth is actually a simulation?

Hear what Alice and Tom have been enjoying recently, which tropes they love or hate, then take a deep dive with them into early sci-fi and fantasy, and hear the things that they used to love but now make them feel a bit urrrgh.

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

Tom Neenan - The Hauntening

Tom Neenan Is Not All Men

News

FILM Frankenstein

FILM Predator: Killer of Killers

FILM Mountainhead

What have you been into?

TV Rick and Morty

Blood Song - Anthony Ryan

Witch King - Martha Wells

Sub-genre deep dive: neurodivergent heroes

Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

TV Bones

Temperance Brennan series - Kathy Reichs

A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett

TV Star Trek

TV Red Dwarf

The mines of urrrgh

FILM Passengers

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This week, we're looking at gender!

Episode 19

This week's news features The Wheel of Time getting cancelled, Lilo and Stitch doing surprisingly well at the box office, and a fantasy author caught using AI to write in her own style!

Hear what Alice and Patrick have been enjoying recently, which tropes they love or hate, then take a deep dive with them into early sci-fi and fantasy, and hear the things that they used to love but now make them feel a bit urrrgh.

Host books

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

Patrick Lenton - In Spite of You

News

TV The Wheel of Time

FILM Lilo and Stitch

What have you been into?

Scholomance Trilogy - Naomi Novik

Blood over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang

TV Andor

Trope on a rope

TV Charmed

Sub-genre deep dive: gender

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan

TV Rings of Power

TV Xena: Warrior Princess

Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Honorverse - David Weber

TV Deep Space Nine

Terry Pratchett Discworld series

Lady’s Knight - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman

The mines of urrrgh

Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson

Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

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This week, we're looking at experiments in form!

Episode 18

This week's news features the Highlander remake moving to Amazon, Sinners continuing to tear up the box office, and the sad introduction of AI-narrated audiobooks.

Hear what Alice and Tom have been enjoying recently, which tropes they love or hate, then take a deep dive with them into early sci-fi and fantasy, and hear the things that they used to love but now make them feel a bit urrrgh.

Host book

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

News

FILM Highlander remake

FILM Sinners

What have you been into?

FILM Sinners

The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

Trope on a rope

Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett

Sub-genre deep dive: experiments in form

The Book of Good Times - Hank Green

The Ship of Theseus - VM Straka

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Subcutanean - Aaron Reed

PODCAST - The Last Post

PODCAST - Revolutions

WEBCOMIC - xkcd

WEBCOMIC - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

PODCAST Beef and Dairy Network

PODCAST Welcome to Night Vale

Convince Me

The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness

Redshirts - John Scalzi

The mines of urrrgh

FILM Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom

FILM Wall-E

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This week, we're looking at early sci fi and fantasy!

Episode 17

This week's news features the Apple TV+ series Foundation, a surprisingly sexual story about E.T. and how Margaret Attwood receiving an entertainment award may distract from similarities with current issues.

Hear what Alice and Eleanor have been enjoying recently, which tropes they love or hate, then take a deep dive with them into early sci-fi and fantasy, and hear the things that they used to love but now make them feel a bit urrrgh.

Host books

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

Eleanor Morton - Life Lessons From Historical Women

News

TV Foundation

FILM E.T.

What have you been into?

The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle

Dinotopia - James Gurney

The Daughters’ War - Christopher Buelman

The Edge Chronicles - Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell

Sub-genre deep dive: early sci-fi and fantasy

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Last Man - Mary Shelley

FILM Elysium (diversion)

Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner

Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift

GAME: The Landlord’s Game

The Odyssey - Homer

One Thousand and One Nights / Arabian Nights

Le Morte d’Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory

Lud in the Mist - Hope Mirrlees

The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke

The mines of urrrgh

FILM Ghostbusters

Tintin

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This week, we're looking at heroes operating outside of the law in sci fi and fantasy!

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Episode 16

In this week's news roundup of sci-fi and fantasy in the real world, there's an actual working bionic hand, actor Issa Rae says she could never fall in love with a chatbot, and there's also book news of an alien abduction Rom-Com!

Andrew has been enjoying the latest Star Wars series Andor and the Japanese epic kaiju film Godzilla Minus One, while Alice has been deep into reading Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen.

We, of course, bring you tropes galore! Hey, remember though, guys - humans are messy and you're going to love this back story about girls cross-dressing as boys to become attractive to other girls.

Alice's mines of urrgh this week is Enid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree, and they wonder should you edit on the fly while reading to your child and should books have newer editions without the discomfort?

Host books

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

Andrew Hunter Murray - A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering

News

Never Let Me Go / Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

I Got Abducted By Aliens And Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-com - Kimberly Lemming

What have you been into?

Andor

Godzilla Minus One

Wake of Vultures - Lila Bowen

Sub-genre deep dive: heroes operating outside of the law

Firefly

The Expanse

Alien series

Sleeper Beach - Nick Harkaway

Sabriel - Garth Nix

Judge Dredd

Hot Fuzz

Peter Pan

Jungle Book

Taltos - Steven Brust

V For Vendetta - Alan Moore

The Watchmen - Alan Moore

Minority Report

Star Wars

Trope on a rope

The World's End

Independence Day

Men In Black

Mad Max: Fury Road

Rings of Power

The mines of urrrgh

The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

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This week, we're looking at actual parenting in sci fi and fantasy!

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Episode 15

In this week's sci fi and fantasy news, the new trailer for Predator: Badlands is pretty fantastic and horror movie Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan is doing huge things at the box office.

Chris had a really joyous time watching the stage production of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro, and enjoyed bingeing the TV series Paradise. Alice has been laid on her back reading A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett and The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso.

Chris isn't keen on the trope of the thick cockney-sounding low level bad guys, and Alice notes the trope of kids being aged up and dropped back into the plot later on, or even people having previously undeclared secret children!

Alice's mines of urrgh this week is the comic book Phantom which she enjoyed as a child, but has not dated well unless you're particularly keen on white saviour complex.

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Alice's book

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

Chris' podcast

Mildly Informed

News

FILM Predator: Badlands

FILM: Sinners

What have you been into?

THEATRE (/FILM) My Neighbour Totoro

A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett

The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso

TV Paradise

Sub-genre deep dive: parenting

TV Raised by Wolves

MANGA Lone Wolf and Cub - writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima

TV Sweet Tooth

Heir to Sevenwaters - Juliet Marillier

GRAPHIC NOVEL Saga

FILM Beasts of the Southern Wild

GAME God of War

Tehanu - Ursula Le Guin

Broken Earth trilogy - N K Jemisin

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Thud - Terry Pratchett

The mines of urrrgh

COMIC - Phantom

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It's a mushroom / plant life / flora core / sentient forest special!

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Episode 14

In this week's sci fi and fantasy/real world crossover news, is there life on distant planet K2-18B, and are dire wolves making a comeback?

James has been enjoying The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie and Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, while Alice has been dipping a toe into Mushroom Blues by Adrian M. Gibson.

In this week's Trope on a Rope section, the forced 'here's six months earlier' flashbacks are annoying James and Alice really wishes that people would just wear appropriate headwear in the desert.

Kurt Vonnegut's use of misogyny tarnishes James' otherwise love of the author, along with fatness being used as shorthand for evil of some sort.

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Hosts' books

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

James Colley - The Next Big Thing

What have you been into?

The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie

Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges

Mushroom Blues - Adrian M. Gibson

Sub-genre deep dive: plant life / flora core

The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham

War of the Worlds - HG Wells

FILM Little Shop of Horrors

Hyperion - Dan Simmons

TV Farscape

‘Amnesty’ from Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

TV/GAME The Last of Us

The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett

TV Seeds of Doom - Dr Who episode

Blue Moon Rising - Simon R Green

GAME Botanica

GAME Strange Horticulture

GAME Caves of Qud

GAME Hollow Knight

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Episode 13

In this week's news, Alice makes international front pages after she decides not to take a trip the US, Nanowrimo is cancelled (the organisation, not the event) and we may soon see more quality sci-fi from China.

Tom has recently been enjoying the start of season two of The Last of Us, while Alice has been distracting herself from real-life dystopian futures by dipping back into the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.

Tom's trope on a rope for this week is the oil pit fire scene, used way too often, while Alice's is the antisocial heroine.

In Mines of Urgh, Tom is looking for positive representations of limb difference, given that it's commonly used as a signifier for evil.

And listener Jen convinces Tom so convincingly to read The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness, that he orders the book during the podcast record!

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What have you been into?

TV - The Last of Us

Temeraire series - Naomi Novik

Convince Me

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

Sub-genre deep dive: admin/bureaucracy

TV Star Trek

The Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone

FILM Terry Gilliam - Brazil

Vorkosigan Saga series - Lois McMaster Bujold

FILM Alien Romulus

TV Dr Who episodes The Sunmakers / Paradise Towers

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

GAME Papers Please

GAME Return of the Obra Dinn

FILM Shin Godzilla

Tyrant Philosophers series - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Landover series - Terry Brooks

The Traitor Baru Cormorant series - Seth Dickinson

Dagger and Coin series - Daniel Abraham

Terry Pratchett

FILM Amazing Grace

Mines of Urgh

Star Wars

Good Omens

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Episode 12

In this week's news, rumours abound that Meryl Streep could be cast as Aslan in Greta Gerwig's forthcoming Narnia films, and Alice and Jen discuss Simon & Schuster's rebrand and 'Simon Maverick' audiobook imprint.

Jen has recently been enjoying mafia romance such as The Kings of Italy series by Mila Finelli and the Perfectly Imperfect series by Neva Altaj.

Alice's trope on a rope for this week is people being granted immortality and being pissed about it, while Jen takes issue with fake dating.

In Mines of Urgh, Alice has a problem with her beloved The Dragonriders of Pern and then Jen sees how the heteronormative style of books of a past era, such as Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward show us how far gender and sex have come in recent years.

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What have you been into?

The Kings of Italy series - Mila Finelli

Perfectly Imperfect series - Neva Altaj

These Summer Storms - Sarah MacLean

Romance in sci-fi

Shards of Honor / Barrayar / A Civil Campaign - Lois McMaster Bujold

Fiasco - Constance Fay (read Jen's article here)

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

This is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone

The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

Winter’s Orbit - Everina Maxwell

Ringworld - Larry Niven

Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky

Dragonriders of Pern - Anne McCaffrey

The Kushiel’s series - Jacqueline Carey

Aurora Blazing - Jessie Mihalik

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Hosts Alice Fraser and James Colley bring you episode 11 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for genre fiction tropes, news and recommendations!

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Episode 11

In this week's news, Edgar Wright has finished filming his remake of The Running Man, while set images from The Odyssey, starring Zendaya and Tom Holland have been released.

James has been enjoying The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, Alice has been reading The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone, and they both loved Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

In this week's Trope on a Rope section, James wonders if anyone has seen the 'Filbert report on Liberia'? and Alice notices all of the noir detectives getting the shit beaten out of them.

The 'Convince Me' section sees listener Joyce Ketterer give the big pitch to the Tiffany Aching series of books by Terry Pratchett.

And take a plunge in the deep dive sub-genre submarine, as James and Alice rattle off all manner of evil corporations in the worlds of film, games and books.

News

FILMS

The Running Man

The Odyssey

What have you been into of late?

BOOKS

Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley

Max Gladstone - The Craft Sequence

Hyperion - Dan Simmons

Convince Me

Terry Pratchett - Tiffany Aching series

Terry Pratchett - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin Abbott Abbott

Sub genre submarine - Evil corporations

TV

Futurama

FILM

The Fifth Element

Tank Girl

Alien

Judge Dredd

BOOKS

Thursday Next series - Jasper Fforde

Murderbot series - Martha Wells

Hit - Delilah S Dawson

GAMES

Portal

Fallout

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Episode 10

In this week's news, we look at the cinema release of Snow White, Wheel of Time on Amazon, and The Electric State on Netflix - starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.

Hear why Tom is enjoying re-reading Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, what he thought of the film Opus, and what drew Alice to reading The Unorthodox Chronicles by James J Butcher.

In this week's Trope on a Rope section you can hear the various examples of a 'special little boy' and why Tom has issue with it, and Alice discusses the trope of being able to sense someone walking into a busy room.

Take a plunge in the deep dive sub-genre submarine, as Tom and Alice totally recall the various memory modification based books, films, TV shows and games.

And Tom opens up an interesting conversation about the representation of little people on screen.

News

FILMS

Snow White - cinemas

The Electric State - Netflix

TV

Wheel of Time - Amazon

What have you been into of late?

BOOKS

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Unorthodox Chronicles - James J Butcher

FILM

Opus

Trope on a rope

TV Daredevil - Disney+

Sub genre submarine - Memory modification

FILMS

Bourne Identity

Total Recall

The Prestige

Companion

TV

Dollhouse

Severance

Altered Carbon

The Shining Girls - Apple TV

Dr Who episode Mawdryn Undead

BOOKS

We Can Remember It For You Wholesale - Philip K Dick

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

Reasons to be Cheerful - Greg Egan

The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes

Memory - Lois McMaster Bujold

GAME Soma

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Episode 9

In this week's news, Terry Brooks is to retire from writing the Shannara series books, with Delilah S. Dawson taking over as the new author, Sarah J. Maas’ publisher launches new sci fi and fantasy imprint, Bloomsbury Archer, and Naruto has become the most watched anime on Netflix.

Henry has been enjoying Miles Cameron, with the Cold Iron trilogy and Artefact Space duology coming highly recommended. But the real big recommendation this week - from both Henry and Alice - is for everyone to marvel at the incredible archery skills of Lars Anderson on YouTube.

Post-apocalypse (specifically post-technological and post-AI-collapse) fiction books are the focus of the sub-genre submarine deep dive - with a whole library full of examples and recommendations to explore - see the affiliate store. There are also games such as Horizon Zero Dawn and story-based fitness apps like Zombies Run and The Walk to explore.

We also have Trope on a Rope, with Henry questioning the 'blood brothers' hand cuts, and Alice's trope gripe is female protagonists supposedly not reading the really quite obvious signs from their admirers.

TV

Shannara Chronicles

Naruto

Blue Eye Samurai

YOUTUBE

Lars Anderson: A new level of archery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk&

GAMES

Horizon Zero Dawn

Zombies Run - story based running app

The Walk - story based fitness app

BOOKS

WHAT ARE YOU INTO OF LATE?

Miles Cameron - Cold Iron trilogy (Masters and Mages)

Miles Cameron - Artefact Space duology

POST-APOCALYPSE/POST-TECHNOLOGICAL/POST-AI-COLLAPSE

Dune - Frank Herbert

Shattered Sea trilogy - Joe Abercrombie

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M Miller Jr

Sun Eater series - Christopher Ruocchio

Anathem - Neal Stephenson

Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Bee Speaker - Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Hungry Gods - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Cold Fire trilogy - CS Friedman

CONVINCE ME

Sum: Tales from the Afterlife by David Eagleman (sent in by Thomas Craven)

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Episode 8

In this week's news, as Paapa Essiedu has been cast as Snape in the new TV adaptation of Harry Potter, Alice and Tom discuss the racial considerations of the casting and how this might play out within the characterisation. Also, Bong Joon-ho's new film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson intrigues them both, as does it being a Warner Bros production.

Metaphysical libraries are the focus of the sub-genre deep dive this week - with a whole library full of examples and recommendations to explore - see the affiliate store.

We also have Trope on a Rope, with certain commonly-used phrases the source of ire this week. And find out which significant public figure popping up in Iron Man 2, Star Trek Discovery, The Simpsons and Rick and Morty makes Tom uneasy.

FILMS

Mickey 17

Timestalker

TV

Harry Potter (HBO)

Dr Who - Silence in the Library + Forest of the Dead episodes

GAMES

The Last of Us Part II

BOOKS

The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges

Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett

The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins

Thursday Next series - Jasper Fforde

The Book that Wouldn’t Burn - Mark Lawrence

Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow - Jessica Townsend

Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik

Service Model - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

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Hosts Alice Fraser and Chris Skinner bring you the second of two child-friendly World Book Day (UK) episodes of Realms Unknown this week, with today's focusing on children's fantasy and science fiction books for ages 12-17 years old. Part 1, which looked at books for 0-12 years old, is available in your podcast feed and on YouTube. 

Before diving into the many great books in this episode, Chris and Alice recommend some music with a sci-fi/fantasy twist, with Janelle Monáe's 2010 album The ArchAndroid being enjoyed at the family dinner table for Chris, and Alice enjoying the storytelling of LayLow's TRINITY album, released in 2020.

In this episode’s Trope on a Rope, Alice brings the use of parental neglect to the table, preferring the loving and engaged parenting in books like The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik, while Chris bemoans beings magically being able to just learn a language at a speed unfamiliar to a Duolingo user like himself.

Chris and Alice then enthuse over a number of fantasy and sci-fi books that shaped them as teenagers, which you can find listed below and can buy in our Bookshop affiliate store, which supports your local bookshops.

Age 12-17 books

Loving and engaged parents

The Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik

Sibling adventures

Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper

Narnia series - CS Lewis

Gillian Rubinstein - Space Demons

The Storm Keeper’s Island - Catherine Doyle

Why teenagers should read fantasy

Phillip Pullman - His Dark Materials

Phillip Pullman - The Ruby in the Smoke

Phillip Pullman - The Book of Dust

Sabriel series - Garth Nix

Lioness series - Tamora Pierce

Terry Pratchett - Mort

Terry Pratchett - Eric

Galax-Arena - Gillian Rubinstein

Short stories

Dangerous Women - George R R Martin & Gardner Dozois

More to explore

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Dune - Frank Herbert

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Hosts Alice Fraser and Chris Skinner bring you two child-friendly World Book Day (UK) episodes of Realms Unknown this week, focusing on children's books from 0-10 years old.

The second episode, looking at books for older children, will be out on Thursday 6 March!

In the regular news section, they touch on Doctor Who and Pokémon Go while detouring down memory lane, recalling He-Man, Thundercats and The Trap Door.

Chris is pleasantly surprised to be enjoying the Amazon series The Rings of Power, having not taken to The Hobbit off-shoots of Lord of the Rings. While Alice is enjoying the gentle calm of toddler books such as Kuma-Kuma Chan by Kazue Takahashi and Grug by Ted Prior.

In this episode’s Trope on a Rope, Alice wonders where tropes of boys being ballerinas, or girls wanting to play soccer are still relevant in a more inclusive age.

Chris and Alice recommend a number of books they've enjoyed both as children and as parents, which you can find listed below and can buy in our Bookshop affiliate store. Bookshop supports the local and independent book stores in your area.

Age 0-5 books

The Tiger Who Came To Tea - Judith Kerr

Not Now Bernard - David McKee

I Want My Hat Back - Jon Klassen

The Gruffalo, Zog, The Smeds and the Smoos - Julia Donaldson

Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc

Meg and Mog - Helen Nicholl and Jan Pienkowski

Age 5-8 books

Isadora Moon and Mirabelle series - Harriet Muncaster

Age 8-10 books

The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

The 13 Clocks - James Thurber

The Stormkeeper’s Island - Catherine Doyle

Also, don’t miss our recommendations for what to do, watch, or read this week. Tune in for a packed episode full of insightful discussions, book and TV recommendations, and much more!

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They take a deep dive into this week's sub-genre of steampunk, making recommendations from film, books and games such as Mortal Engines, Cinder Spires, Bioshock Infinite, Howl's Moving Castle, and more.

In this episode’s Trope on a Rope, Tom explains the much-used prop of an epic city final battle featuring a column of light or energy, while Alice is baffled by sexy fights in films.

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Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan.

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They take a deep dive into this week's sub-genre of cyberpunk, discussing books like Neuromancer, Mindstar Rising, and Ten Low. They discuss the similarities and differences with steampunk and Jackie recommends When Gravity Falls by George Alec Effinger, while Alice suggests Market Forces by Richard Morgan.

In this episode’s Trope on a Rope, Jackie bemoans the Marvel trope of a female character meeting their end off a cliff, while Alice recalls the scientists trying to save the world who panic and try to open the airlock. Meanwhile, listener Elyse makes the case for reading the Lost Omens: Divine Mysteries Pathfinder RPG book.

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They also shine a spotlight on the gritty world of Grimdark fiction, discussing epic books like Prince of Thorns, The Black Company, and Legends & Lattes. Eleanor shares her thoughts on the game Hobbs Barrow, while Alice recommends the TV series Pantheon.

In this episode’s Trope on a Rope, Eleanor breaks down the redhead trope in fantasy and sci-fi, touching on Gulliver’s Travels, Eddie Redmayne’s role in Jupiter Ascending, and Gimli from Lord of the Rings. Plus, Sandy convinces us to read Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold in the Convince Me to Read This Book segment!

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Produced by Chris Skinner. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton.

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Expect sharp insights, unexpected tangents, and plenty of laughs as Alice and Tom unravel what makes these stories so enduring (and weird). Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner for The Bugle, Realms Unknown is your guide to the best and strangest corners of speculative fiction.

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We cover...

Astrobot - the cutest Sci Fi game there is? Rebecca Yarros and the rise of Romantasy. The return of Severance. A deep dive into 'Progression Fantasy'

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Featuring:

Alice Fraser

Tom Neenan

Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner.

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