Host Alice Fraser, and Tom Neenan bring you episode 13 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for genre fiction tropes, news and recommendations!
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Episode 13
In this week's news, Alice makes international front pages after she decides not to take a trip the US, Nanowrimo is cancelled (the organisation, not the event) and we may soon see more quality sci-fi from China.
Tom has recently been enjoying the start of season two of The Last of Us, while Alice has been distracting herself from real-life dystopian futures by dipping back into the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.
Tom's trope on a rope for this week is the oil pit fire scene, used way too often, while Alice's is the antisocial heroine.
In Mines of Urgh, Tom is looking for positive representations of limb difference, given that it's commonly used as a signifier for evil.
And listener Jen convinces Tom so convincingly to read The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness, that he orders the book during the podcast record!
For all of the books mentioned in the romance in sci -fi sub genre deep dive this week, please see the lists below!
What have you been into?
TV - The Last of Us
Temeraire series - Naomi Novik
Convince Me
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Sub-genre deep dive: admin/bureaucracy
TV Star Trek
The Craft Sequence - Max Gladstone
FILM Terry Gilliam - Brazil
Vorkosigan Saga series - Lois McMaster Bujold
FILM Alien Romulus
TV Dr Who episodes The Sunmakers / Paradise Towers
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
GAME Papers Please
GAME Return of the Obra Dinn
FILM Shin Godzilla
Tyrant Philosophers series - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Landover series - Terry Brooks
The Traitor Baru Cormorant series - Seth Dickinson
Dagger and Coin series - Daniel Abraham
Terry Pratchett
FILM Amazing Grace
Mines of Urgh
Star Wars
Good Omens
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