What Mad Universe?!?

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Hey kids, do you like fantasy stories written by a woman about a kid going to wizard school? Forget the imitators, and join us as we take a look at Ursula K. Le Guin's seminal fantasy series, A Wizard of Earthsea, and the shape of post-Tolkien fantasy in the 20th century!

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It's time to talk about the original Angry Man of science fiction, Harlan Ellison: editor, critic, author of hundreds of stories, comics, and screenplays, strong-willed defender of justice, and raving jerk. We're joined by pal James Reilly-English to discuss his seminal novella A Boy And His Dog, along with much of his other work, and, unavoidably, the domineering personality that is Ellison himself. Lots of profanity in this slightly overlength episode--if you want the unbleeped and extended version, check out our Patreons!

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Once upon a midnight dreary, the fabled titan of American literature Edgar Allen Poe published his first and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Despite its rough and awkward plotting and lack of an ending, this novel captured the imaginations of horror and SF writers for generations to come, and still casts a long shadow over speculative fiction...and its soul from out that shadow shall be lifted...nevermore...

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Sorry about the delay, but WMU?!? is back for 2021 with another installment in our series looking at spinoff books from SF franchises, and this time up it's Doctor Who! Appropriately for a series that's all about finding new variations on its main character, the foundational British SF show came in a lot of different, mutually contradictory iterations during the years after its cancellation in 1989 and before it was brought back. Today we're joined by our friend (and Who spinoff author himself) Andrew Hickey to look at Alien Bodies by Lawrence Miles, a non-canon "Eighth Doctor" book that's had a tremendous impact on the mythos of Who, including the series itself.

As with our similar shows about Star Wars and Star Trek spinoff books, we had a very substantial and LONG discussion about the franchise in question, leading to an extra-long episode. This publicly-available version has been edited down to just over an hour but we really do recommend the full version with lots more interesting discussion, which you can get by subscribing to either Adam's or Phil's Patreon. Stay subscribed and you get bonus stuff and the ability to listen to the show early, as well as comics, illustrations, prose and more!

Truly, What Mad Universe?!? is the podcast that's bigger on the inside...

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Gather round, children, and hearken to the tale of a talking flea, battling philosophers, and ambulatory thistles, all dictated by a man dying of syphilis! It's our Christmas episode! Ring out 2020 the way it deserves with the year's final WMU?!? episode, and here's hoping for better times to come...

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To reward you for our brief absence, the latest episode of What Mad Universe?!? features both of Adam and Philip's lovely singing voices! It's natural for an episode that ties into Gilbert and Sullivan, which The Innominato, or, The Wizard of the Mountain, certainly does--it was written by W. S. Gilbert's father. A selection of whimsical fables about a sorceror and his dabbling in mortal affairs, this isn't quite as fun as a comic opera but at least it goes out on a high note...

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