As we near the end of the trail for season 2, WMU?!? takes a look away from the fantastical towards another pulp genre: the American western. Emma Ghent Curtis's The Administratrix tells a wild story of 19th century politics, feminism...and eventually, revenge. A cowboy novel written by someone who actually lived in the time and place most western writers have to imagine for themselves, it's a fascinating historical milestone.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same...unless you've been genetically altered by aliens, I guess. In this episode we look at the Xenogenesis trilogy, better known these days as Lilith's Brood, by Octavia E. Butler, and gain a unique perspective on colonialism, consent and disability. Or maybe it's just the classiest Hentai ever written. 

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Attention, sinners, the lord's justice is upon you today in the form of the dour puritan adventurer, Solomon Kane. Created by Robert E. Howard of Conan and Kull fame, Kane sails the seas and plunges deep into the jungle in his wanderings, sometimes guided by curiosity, sometimes by vengeance. Warning: we talk about racism a LOT in this one...

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Back in our day, kids didn't sit around playing video games and doing the Fortnite dance. They were all genius inventors who were constantly creating astounding, world-changing inventions and heading off to have extremely racist adventures in the various wild frontiers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries! Yes, all of them! We know because of the genre collectively called the Edisonade, of which there are hundreds, all packed with boy geniuses creating super-scientific wonders (at least one of which manifested in the real world). It all begins with The Steam Man Of The Prairies by Edward S. Ellis, our subject this week.

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Sharpen your dueling rapier and grab hold of that chandelier, acolytes of adventure, for today What Mad Universe?!? takes a look at the original swashbuckling tale of romance, palace intrigue, and mistaken identities, The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope! While not widely known today, this book had a major impact on pop culture in the first half of the 20th century, in ways that are still popping up today.

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A spooooky new What Mad Universe?!? awaits for skeptics and believers alike, as we explore the stories of Carnacki the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson. Carnacki is the rare sleuth who both debunks frauds and tangles with genuine supernatural menaces, making him a unique fulcrum to examine the sub-subgenre of late 19th and early 20th century occult detectives. Warning: in this podcast you will encounter...Ţ̴̥̭̞̼͊͛́̈͛̐͜H̴̜̟͚̺͆͋̋̄̏Ȅ̷̙̆̕ ̸̨̯̀̌́͠͝͝H̵̭͎̋̊̾̆́̃͒O̵̢̰̜̺̮̜̘̹̹͓̓̃G̷̘̤̟͙̰͇͕͙͔͉̀ .

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Look! Up in the Sky! It's the latest in our series of bonus-length What Mad Universe?!? episodes about franchise tie-ins! This time we take a look at the Man of Steel himself, Superman, and the novel Miracle Monday by Elliot S! Maggin, published in the wake of the Christopher Reeve movie. Despite these inauspicious origins, the book turned out to be really good, and we're joined by pal, comics critic and Superman megafan Charlotte Finn to talk about it!

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