Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 20 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!

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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