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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Alice is joined by Chris Skinner to discuss the work of Tamora Pierce. They also chat about Murderbot and Sarah J Maas - is Romantasy sexy enough?

Search for Chris’s show Mildly Informed in your pod feed now.

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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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Host Alice Fraser and author Patrick Lenton bring you episode 19 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!

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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Host Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening) bring you episode 18 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!

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

SCP-3008

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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Host Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton bring you episode 17 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!

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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Host Alice Fraser and fellow writer, podcaster and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray (QI, Private Eye, There's No Such Thing As A Fish) bring you episode 16 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for genre fiction tropes, news and recommendations!

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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