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Because everything must have Star Wars content now, this new episode of WMU?!? does its due diligence with a dive into the planetary romance stories of Eric John Stark by Leigh Brackett, the woman who co-wrote The Empire Strikes Back and likely inspired George Lucas in the first place.

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Take a trip across the universe with Gully Foyle, a one-man space odyssey on a mad quest for revenge, as we look at Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination!

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No, the laws of reality have not come crashing down! The world has not been thrown into chaos! You ARE getting an episode of What Mad Universe?!? for the second consecutive week! That's just to get us back on schedule after the week-long break.

There was a lot to talk about this time out, with the subject of this episode, famed occult figure Aleister Crowley and his stories of the supernatural detective Simon Iff. In fact, there's so much so that we had to cut down this show by a pretty significant chunk--if you want to hear the full, unedited version, you'll have to subscribe to Adam's Patreon or Philip's! It's worth it (don't forget that also lets you listen to the show a week early!) As Crowley himself would say, "Do As Thou Wilt..."

Other Keywords: Magick, Occult, Tao, Thelema, Somerset Maugham, Alan Moore, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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This episode looks at a favourite book of Adam's, Gilbert K. Chesterton's The Napoleon Of Notting Hill, a prescient commentary on globalization, imperialism and finding the sublime in the ridiculous.

Other Keywords: Globalization, Cheat the Prophet, C. S. Lewis, 1984, Community, Think Globally Fight Locally, Medieval, Mad king, Nicaragua, cynic, fanatic, cyberpunk, LARP, cosplay

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This chapter deals with Samuel R. "Chip" Delaney's Nova, the New Wave of SF, mythic symbolism, and the artistic process realized as space opera. Heavy, man.

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This episode looks at that famed grand-master of classic science fiction...Adolf Hitler? Actually, it's Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream, about an alternate universe in which the rise of the Nazis was entirely confined to the fevered pages of a pulp sci-fi novel. Good thing the genre fans of THIS universe would never embrace anything so reactionary, racist and authoritarian, right?

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In the 70s, high-rise buildings were old hat in the US but still a novelty in the UK. As the urban landscape changed, British, and global, society changed with it. But into what? Could architecture, born out of the human mind, influence that mind in turn? Could a building...haunt us? J. G. Ballard asked that question in his seminal novel High-Rise, and on this episode we're joined by our friend Zack Handlen to gaze into his abyss...conveniently located on the 10th floor, near the food court!

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