Rian nerds out over a new favourite anime, Kris gets hooked on a game about…. cooking? And the pair barely scratch the surface on a mega topic for discussion: adaptations and cross-overs.

⁠Best movie adaptations of popular novels⁠

⁠The Way of Unity - Sarah K. Balstrup⁠

⁠Leviathan Wakes - James S. A. Corey⁠

⁠The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu⁠

⁠Annihilation - Jeff Vandermeer⁠

⁠Authority - Jeff Vandermeer⁠ 

⁠What you are looking for is in the library - Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts⁠ 

⁠Terminator Zero⁠

⁠Aliens (1986)⁠

⁠The Wickwire Watch⁠

⁠Chef RPG (Steam)⁠

⁠Of Love and Loss - B.S.H. Garcia⁠ 

⁠The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan⁠

⁠Mass Effect⁠

⁠Death Stranding⁠

⁠Obsidian Awakening - Sienna Frost⁠

⁠Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami⁠

⁠Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton⁠

⁠Foundation - Isaac Asimov⁠ 

⁠The Life of Pi - Yann Martel⁠

⁠A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin⁠

⁠Icebreaker - Steven William Hannah⁠

⁠Neuromancer - William Gibson⁠

⁠Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan⁠

⁠Firefly⁠

⁠Serenity (2005)⁠

⁠The Shannara Chronicles⁠

⁠Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)⁠

⁠The Salt Grows Heavy - Cassandra Khaw⁠

⁠Lilly Wachowski to co-produce animated adaptation of trans novel Hell Followed With Us⁠

⁠Wicked (2024)⁠

⁠The Greatest Showman (2017)⁠

⁠Burlesque⁠

⁠Shrek The Musical⁠

⁠Willow Talks Books⁠

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