Realms Unknown

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Realms Unknown episodes:

November 26, 2025 Iterations // The Running Man // King Kong
Alice Fraser is joined this week by Tom Neenan for episode 42 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown!

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NEWS
A Feast of Crows - George RR Martin
GAME Zombies, Run

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
FILM The Running Man
The Will of the Many - James Islington
The Strength of the Few - James Islington
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
TV Tumble Leaf

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Iterations
FILM The Running Man
FILM The Long Walk
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
FILM King Kong

MINES OF URRGH
FILM King Kong
TV Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll

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47min
November 21, 2025 George AI Martin? Is it art?
Alice is joined by Kate Samas to discuss the latest in speculative fiction, including an accusation that the latest George RR Martin release has AI generated art.

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🎚️ Produced by Chris Skinner, Laura Turner and Harry Gordon.
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36min
November 12, 2025 Villains as heroes // Plur1bus // Improvised crampons
Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 40 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown!

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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
FILM Full Metal Jacket
FILM Apocalypse Now
FILM Saving Private Ryan
FILM Wolf Creek
TV Dexter
Hannibal

MINES OF URRGH
FILM Wanted
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen R. Donaldson
FILM The Flintstones

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40min
November 05, 2025 Ontologypunk // RimWorld // RoboCop
Writer and podcaster Nate Crowley 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 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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38min
October 29, 2025 Portals // Frankenstein // Vorkosigan Saga
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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37min
October 21, 2025 Words of power // Magic of language // Earthsea
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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40min
October 14, 2025 Fan fiction // Alchemised // Alan Moore
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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32min
October 08, 2025 We made a hit book, and saw none of the money! Chris and Alice Unleashed!!! B'Ankruptcy Edition
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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43min
September 30, 2025 Post-colonial Africa // Alien: Earth // District 9
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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38min
September 23, 2025 Installing buttons // Katherine Rundell // Harry Potter
Joining Alice Fraser this week is the brilliant Eleanor Morton!

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Reading list to follow!

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36min

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