Realms Unknown

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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the mighty Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).The subgenre deep dive this week looks at bodies / good use of embodiment - such as body swapping in Altered Carbon or Cronenbergian body horror. Tom espouses that 2025 has seen the greatest summer for cinematic horror in recent memory, discusses the trope of befuzzled kings leaving a trail of chaos in their wake, and feels a bit eurrgh about campery being shorthand for villainy.📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknownNEWSFILM Red SonjaWHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?FILM 28 Years LaterFILM Bring Her BackFILM WeaponsFILM TogetherSwordheart - T KingfisherTROPE ON A ROPEBefuzzled kings and the chaos they leave in their wakeLooking in the mirror, pulling at something and creating a Cronenbergian horrorSUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - bodiesFILM LooperFILM TogetherTV Doctor Who - The Invisible EnemyTV Doctor Who - Into The DalekFILM TuskPODCAST SmodcastAltered Carbon - Richard K. MorganThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. LewisGhost In The ShellDune - Frank HerbertTV Alien: EarthFILM Ex MachinaMINES OF EURRGHCampery to mean villainyFILM Jupiter AscendingTV TwilightFILM The Little MermaidFILM The Lion KingFILM Robin HoodFILM The Fifth Element📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate📚 Help 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 Tom Neenan.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice Fraser is joined this week by Jen Prokop from the Fated Mates romance podcast, so expect a lot of romance recommendations and tropes!The subgenre deep dive looks into interesting uses of POV, and Jen is uncomfortable with the increasing use of violence in romance books but enjoyed the romance elements in recent films Superman and Sinners.📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknownNEWSWho Is Elara Voss?FILM HighlanderTV OutlanderEpic Games secures legal win against GoogleWHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?SupermanSinnersTROPE ON A ROPEJack Reacher series - Lee ChildThe Faraway Tree - Enid BlytonThe Hunger Games - Suzanne CollinsSUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - single POVThe Fifth Season - N.K. JemisonNot Your Sidekick - C.B. LeeAncillary Justice - Ann Leckie The Baby Dragon Cafe - A.T. QureshiThe Baby Dragon Bakery - A.T. QureshiPiranesi - Susanna ClarkeMINES OF EURRGHGirls and their dragonsFourth Wing - Rebecca YarrosJack West Jr series - Matthew ReillyAmerican Gods - Neil Gaiman📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate📚 Help 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 Jen Prokop.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!They discuss time loops in sci-fi, the tropes of hypersexualised futures and post-coital never-nudes, and whether prison 'relationships' belong in the mines of urrggh!📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknownNEWSFILM Attack of the 50 Foot WomanFILM Spider-Man: Brand New DayWHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING?FILM SinnersFILM Bring Her BackTROPE ON A ROPEHypersexualised futuresFILM Blade Runner 2045FILM ShowgirlsFILM Starship TroopersFILM The Fifth ElementNever nudes in sexy scenesFILM Sex and the CitySUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - time loopsFILM Groundhog DayStrange Life of Ivan Osokin - P. D. OuspenskyTV The Twilight Zone ‘Shadow Play’FILM Edge of TomorrowTV Russian DollFILM Happy Death DayFILM Happy Death Day 2 UTV Doctor Who - Eve of the DaleksFILM Source CodeFILM Twelve MonkeysFILM Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesThe Dark Tower - Stephen KingPLAY Ghost StoriesFILM TriangleTV Doctor Who - Heaven SentTV DarkMINES OF URRGHBourne series - Robert Ludlum📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate📚 Help 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 Tom Neenan.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.comAlice Fraser and Tom Neenan are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton are your guides for this week as they traverse through manner of fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!They discuss Arthurian legend in fantasy (and some sci-fi), David Bowie's tights in Labyrinth, and audible sharpness (*insert your own sword noise here!*)📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknownNEWSFILM The OdysseyTV Star Trek: Starfleet AcademyWHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING?Perfume - Patrick SüskindThe Emperor’s Blades - Brian StaveleyThe Undercutting of Rosie and Adam - Megan BannenTROPE ON A ROPE - audible sharpnessFILM Robin HoodSUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Arthurian legendsThe Once and Future King - T.H. WhiteFILM The Sword and the StoneFILM Star WarsFILM Harry PotterTV Merlin (Sam Neill)FILM Monty Python and the Holy GrailPODCAST CamlannTV The RottentrollsTV Sir Gadabout - The Worst Knight in the LandFILM The Green KnightThe Dark is Rising - Susan CooperPOEM The Dragons of Dinas Emrys - PendaranTV Merlin (BBC)COMIC Camelot 3000MINES OF URRGHFILM LabyrinthAvalon series - Marion Zimmer Bradley📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate📚 Help 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 Eleanor Morton.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come journey into Realms Unknown with Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan for a whole world of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!We discuss the use of disguises in genre fiction, the hot commie summer, and ominous portents that have double meanings. WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING?FILM Superman Buffalo Soldiers - Maurice Broaddus TROPE ON A ROPE - ominous portents that have double meaningsMacbeth - William ShakespeareLord of the Rings - J.R.R. TolkienStar Wars: The Last JediDeadly Education - Naomi NovikSUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - disguisesFILM Snow WhiteFILM SupermanA Court of Thorn and Roses - Sarah J. MaasTV Quantum LeapTV FoundationFILM Smile FILM Smile 2TV Doctor Who - Terror of the Zygons TV Orphan BlackSherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Song of the Lioness series - Tamora PierceTV Secret InvasionFILM Mission: Impossible seriesTV Doctor Who - World Enough and TimeMINES OF URRGHFILM Johnny Mnemonic📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate📚 Help 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 Tom Neenan.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come journey into Realms Unknown with Alice Fraser and podcasting legend Chris Skinner for a whole world of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!We discuss medieval fayres (jousting, anyone?), K Pop Demon Hunters and A Court of Thorns and Roses.Our Trope On A Rope is characters who learn to fight way to easily, and then the one who can land the lucky punch with zero training.We also get the ick thinking about Red Sonja.Our genre deep dive is comedy in speculative:All Discworld BooksRick and MortyRed DwarfThe Hitchhikers Guide To The GalaxyAll My Friends Are SuperheroesGideon The Ninth📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate📚 Help 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 Laura Turner. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Chris Skinner.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Come journey into Realms Unknown with Alice Fraser and US comedian and podcaster Jackie Kashian for a whole world of sci-fi and fantasy recommendations, tropes and news!NEWSIsles of the Emberdark - Brandon SandersonMistborn - Brandon SandersonElantris - Brandon SandersonThe Name of the Wind - Patrick RothfussWHAT ARE YOU INTO?GAME Clank!GAME Lords of WaterdeepSabriel - Garth NixLirael - Garth NixAbhorsen - Garth NixSinister Booksellers of Bath - Garth NixDragonsong - Anne McCaffreyDragonsinger - Anne McCaffreyDragondrums - Anne McCaffreyThe Dolphins of Pern - Anne McCaffreyA Forbidden Alchemy - Stacey McEwanCOMIC The Uncanny X-Men - Gail SimoneCOMIC Ironwood - Bill WillinghamCOMIC Jack of Fables - Bill WillinghamCOMIC Oglaf - Trudy Cooper and Doug BayneCOMIC Giant Days - John AllisonTROPE ON A ROPECOMIC ThunderboltsCOMIC LuciferCOMIC Secret SixCOMIC 100 BulletsCOMIC The BoysDEEP DIVE - redemption arcsThe Chronicles of Severian the Torturer - Gene WolfeThe Book of the New Sun - Gene WolfeIllusions - Richard Bach (Messiah story)Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein (Messiah story)MOVIE Thunderbolts*MOVIE Spider-Man: Into the Spider-VersePrince of Thorns - Mark LawrenceCOMIC - LuciferTV LuciferGoing Postal - Terry PratchettHogfather - Terry PratchettTV Resident AlienCOMIC Irredeemable - Mark WaidCOMIC Incorruptible - Mark WaidMINES OF URRGHFILM You’ve Got MailFILM Pillow TalkFILM Casablanca📯 Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows https://www.youtube.com/@BuglePodcast💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate📚 Help 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 Jackie Kashian.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 24 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!Episode 24This week's news covers the Squid Game USA spinoff, Disney suing AI image generator Midjourney, and a mother suing Disney after a Stormtrooper scared her child, causing injury. Hear what Tom and Alice have been enjoying recently, men slaps and silly old women with health issues are the tropes on the rope this week and they venture into the 'mines of urrgh'. The sub genre deep dive is flintlock fantasy - combining gunpowder-era warfare with magic! And hear the EXCLUSIVE breaking news as Tom coins what may be a brand-new genre - culturepunk. You (possibly) heard it here first!Alice Fraser - A Passion for PassionNewsTV Squid Game USAWhat have you been into of late?FILM 28 Years LaterGods of Blood and Powder - Brian McClennanFILM M3GAN 2.0Sub genre deep dive - flintlock fictionTV SharpeSixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - K. J. ParkerThe Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne - Brian StaveleyGAME Dungeons & Dragons SpelljammerTV Shadow and BoneShadow and Bone - Leigh BardugoThe Cardinal’s Blades - Pierre PevelThe Phoenix Guards - Steven BrustFive Hundred Years After - Steven BrustGAME Assassin’s CreedMines of UrrghFILM 28 Years LaterFILM SeveranceFILM PredatorFILM Snow WhiteSubscribe 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 Tom Neenan.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice Fraser and James Nokise bring you episode 23 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!Episode 23This week's news covers The Odyssey, Masters of the Universe and the Highlander remake, and James and Alice dive into all manner of good things sci fi and fantasy. The sub genre deep dive is all about side characters as leads!Alice Fraser - A Passion for PassionJames Nokise - PODCAST The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior NewsFILM The OdysseyFILM Masters of the UniverseFILM HighlanderAdsGAME Hero’s QuestGAME Police QuestGAME Space QuestWhat have you been enjoying?GAMES Final FantasyLirael - Garth NixSub genre deep dive - side characters as leadsPLAY Rosencratz and Guildenstein Are Dead - Tom StoppardTV Dollhouse - Joss WhedonThe Curse of Chalion - Lois McMaster BujoldGAME Final Fantasy XIIPaladin of Souls - Lois McMaster BujoldFILM SoloThe Book of the New Sun - Gene WolfTV Star Trek: Lower DecksRedshirts - John ScalziAncillary Justice - Ann LeckieThe Wheel of Time - Robert JordanMagician - Raymond E. FeistMines of UrrghThe Belgariad - David EddingsFILM The Sword and the Sorcerer FILM Close Encounters of the Third KindFILM PopeyeFILM Masters of the UniverseSubscribe 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 James Nokise.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at realmsunknown@thebuglepodcast.com🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.