Realms Unknown Metaphysical libraries // Mickey 17 // Timestalker
Hosts Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 8 of Realms Unknown with all the latest genre fiction based news and recommendations.
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Episode 8
In this week's news, as Paapa Essiedu has been cast as Snape in the new TV adaptation of Harry Potter, Alice and Tom discuss the racial considerations of the casting and how this might play out within the characterisation. Also, Bong Joon-ho's new film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson intrigues them both, as does it being a Warner Bros production.
Metaphysical libraries are the focus of the sub-genre deep dive this week - with a whole library full of examples and recommendations to explore - see the affiliate store.
We also have Trope on a Rope, with certain commonly-used phrases the source of ire this week. And find out which significant public figure popping up in Iron Man 2, Star Trek Discovery, The Simpsons and Rick and Morty makes Tom uneasy.
FILMS
Mickey 17
Timestalker
TV
Harry Potter (HBO)
Dr Who - Silence in the Library + Forest of the Dead episodes
GAMES
The Last of Us Part II
BOOKS
The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
Thursday Next series - Jasper Fforde
The Book that Wouldn’t Burn - Mark Lawrence
Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow - Jessica Townsend
Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik
Service Model - Adrian Tchaikovsky
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
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