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• Gender // Scholomance // Honor Harrington

  Host Alice Fraser and author Patrick Lenton bring you episode 19 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!This week, we're looking at gender!Episode 19This week's news features The Wheel of Time getting cancelled, Lilo and Stitch doing surprisingly well at the box office, and a fantasy author caught using AI to write in her own style!Hear what Alice and Patrick 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 booksAlice Fraser - A Passion for PassionPatrick Lenton - In Spite of YouNewsTV The Wheel of TimeFILM Lilo and StitchWhat have you been into?Scholomance Trilogy - Naomi NovikBlood over Bright Haven - M.L. WangTV AndorTrope on a ropeTV CharmedSub-genre deep dive: genderThe Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha ShannonThe Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le GuinAncillary Justice - Ann LeckieThe Murderbot Diaries - Martha WellsThe Wheel of Time - Robert JordanTV Rings of PowerTV Xena: Warrior PrincessEthan of Athos - Lois McMaster BujoldThe Honorverse - David WeberTV Deep Space NineTerry Pratchett Discworld seriesLady’s Knight - Amie Kaufman and Meagan SpoonerThe Bright Sword - Lev GrossmanThe mines of urrrghMalazan Book of the Fallen - Steven EriksonMists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer BradleySubscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcastSupport Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donateHelp your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment!🦋 Follow us on Bluesky!Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Patrick Lenton.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Sinners // Experiments in Form // Guards! Guards!

  Host Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening) bring you episode 18 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!This week, we're looking at experiments in form!Episode 18This week's news features the Highlander remake moving to Amazon, Sinners continuing to tear up the box office, and the sad introduction of AI-narrated audiobooks.Hear what Alice and Tom 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 bookAlice Fraser - A Passion for PassionNewsFILM Highlander remakeFILM SinnersWhat have you been into?FILM SinnersThe Blacktongue Thief - Christopher BuehlmanThe Murderbot Diaries - Martha WellsTrope on a ropeGuards! Guards! - Terry PratchettSub-genre deep dive: experiments in formThe Book of Good Times - Hank GreenThe Ship of Theseus - VM StrakaThis Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneSCP-3008Frankenstein - Mary ShelleySubcutanean - Aaron ReedPODCAST - The Last PostPODCAST - RevolutionsWEBCOMIC - xkcdWEBCOMIC - Saturday Morning Breakfast CerealPODCAST Beef and Dairy NetworkPODCAST Welcome to Night ValeConvince MeThe Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick NessRedshirts - John ScalziThe mines of urrrghFILM Indiana Jones and The Temple of DoomFILM Wall-ESubscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our showsSupport Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donateHelp your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment!🦋 Follow us on Bluesky!Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Early sci-fi and fantasy // Foundation // Ghostbusters

  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 17This 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 booksAlice Fraser - A Passion for PassionEleanor Morton - Life Lessons From Historical WomenNewsTV FoundationFILM E.T.What have you been into?The Lost World - Arthur Conan DoyleDinotopia - James GurneyThe Daughters’ War - Christopher Buelman The Edge Chronicles - Paul Stewart and Chris RiddellSub-genre deep dive: early sci-fi and fantasyFrankenstein - Mary ShelleyThe Last Man - Mary ShelleyFILM Elysium (diversion)Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne From the Earth to the Moon - Jules VerneThe Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan GarnerGulliver’s Travels - Jonathan SwiftGAME: The Landlord’s GameThe Odyssey - HomerOne Thousand and One Nights / Arabian NightsLe Morte d’Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory Lud in the Mist - Hope Mirrlees The Broken Sword - Poul AndersonJonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna ClarkeThe mines of urrrghFILM GhostbustersTintinSubscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our showsSupport Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donateHelp your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment!🦋 Follow us on Bluesky!Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Andor // The wrong side of the law // Sleeper Beach

  Host Alice Fraser and fellow writer, podcaster and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray (QI, Private Eye, There's No Such Thing As A Fish) 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!Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our showsSupport Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber thebuglepodcast.com/donateHelp your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate storeExplore the list of all books, games, films and TV series below.Episode 16In 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 booksAlice Fraser - A Passion for PassionAndrew Hunter Murray - A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and EnteringNewsNever Let Me Go / Klara and the Sun - Kazuo IshiguroI Got Abducted By Aliens And Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-com - Kimberly LemmingWhat have you been into?AndorGodzilla Minus OneWake of Vultures - Lila BowenSub-genre deep dive: heroes operating outside of the lawFireflyThe ExpanseAlien seriesSleeper Beach - Nick HarkawaySabriel - Garth NixJudge DreddHot FuzzPeter PanJungle BookTaltos - Steven BrustV For Vendetta - Alan MooreThe Watchmen - Alan MooreMinority ReportStar WarsTrope on a ropeThe World's EndIndependence DayMen In BlackMad Max: Fury RoadRings of PowerThe mines of urrrghThe Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment!🦋 Follow us on Bluesky!Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Andrew Hunter Murray.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Parenting // My Neighbour Totoro // Raised By Wolves

  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!Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our showsSupport Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber thebuglepodcast.com/donateHelp your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate storeExplore the list of all books, games, films and TV series below.Episode 15In 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 bookAlice Fraser - A Passion for PassionChris' podcastMildly InformedNewsFILM Predator: BadlandsFILM: SinnersWhat have you been into?THEATRE (/FILM) My Neighbour TotoroA Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson BennettThe Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa CarusoTV ParadiseSub-genre deep dive: parentingTV Raised by WolvesMANGA Lone Wolf and Cub - writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki KojimaTV Sweet ToothHeir to Sevenwaters - Juliet MarillierGRAPHIC NOVEL SagaFILM Beasts of the Southern WildGAME God of WarTehanu - Ursula Le GuinBroken Earth trilogy - N K JemisinThe Road - Cormac McCarthyThud - Terry PratchettThe mines of urrrghCOMIC - Phantom🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment!🦋 Follow us on Bluesky!Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Chris Skinner.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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