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, Austentatious) 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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Hosts Alice Fraser and Chris Skinner bring you episode 15 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for genre fiction tropes, news and recommendations!

This week, we're looking at actual parenting in sci fi and fantasy!

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Episode 15

In this week's sci fi and fantasy news, the new trailer for Predator: Badlands is pretty fantastic and horror movie Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan is doing huge things at the box office.

Chris had a really joyous time watching the stage production of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro, and enjoyed bingeing the TV series Paradise. Alice has been laid on her back reading A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett and The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso.

Chris isn't keen on the trope of the thick cockney-sounding low level bad guys, and Alice notes the trope of kids being aged up and dropped back into the plot later on, or even people having previously undeclared secret children!

Alice's mines of urrgh this week is the comic book Phantom which she enjoyed as a child, but has not dated well unless you're particularly keen on white saviour complex.

For all of the books mentioned in the sub genre deep dive this week, please see the lists below!

Alice's book

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

Chris' podcast

Mildly Informed

News

FILM Predator: Badlands

FILM: Sinners

What have you been into?

THEATRE (/FILM) My Neighbour Totoro

A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett

The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso

TV Paradise

Sub-genre deep dive: parenting

TV Raised by Wolves

MANGA Lone Wolf and Cub - writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima

TV Sweet Tooth

Heir to Sevenwaters - Juliet Marillier

GRAPHIC NOVEL Saga

FILM Beasts of the Southern Wild

GAME God of War

Tehanu - Ursula Le Guin

Broken Earth trilogy - N K Jemisin

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Thud - Terry Pratchett

The mines of urrrgh

COMIC - Phantom

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