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 19
This 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 books
Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion
Patrick Lenton - In Spite of You
News
TV The Wheel of Time
FILM Lilo and Stitch
What have you been into?
Scholomance Trilogy - Naomi Novik
Blood over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang
TV Andor
Trope on a rope
TV Charmed
Sub-genre deep dive: gender
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
TV Rings of Power
TV Xena: Warrior Princess
Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Honorverse - David Weber
TV Deep Space Nine
Terry Pratchett Discworld series
Ladyâs Knight - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman
The mines of urrrgh
Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson
Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
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