The Bugle
Realms Unknown
Fantasy, Sci Fi and speculative fiction, observed through the comedic lens of The Bugle. Become a Bugle subscriber to enjoy this show ad free and help us thrive. Expect reviews and supernova level hot takes on literature, gaming, films, TV, board games, and anywhere else you can experience space ships, clones and beautiful elves with massive weapons. A podcast from The Bugle. Hosted by Alice Fraser and friends. Also available as a video podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Christmas // Hogfather // It's A Wonderful Life 24.12.2025 41:35
Rejoice! For Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser for a special festive episode 46 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown! 📕 'A Passion For Passion' is back on sale! https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebugle...
Narnia // Stranger Things // Space Jesus 17.12.2025 34:09
Dive into your nearest wardrobe and enjoy Eleanor Morton and Alice Fraser on episode 45 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown! ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Buy books featured in this and other episodes h...
Unfiction // Dinotopia // Implausibly large ribcages 10.12.2025 31:31
A very welcome return for SFF author Nate Crowley as he joins Alice Fraser for episode 44 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown! ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Buy books featured in this and other episodes...
Choose Your Own Adventure // Fighting Fantasy // Spider-Man 03.12.2025 45:28
The brilliant Joz Norris joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 43 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown! ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Buy books featured in this and other episodes https://uk.bookshop....
Iterations // The Running Man // King Kong 26.11.2025 46:32
Alice Fraser is joined this week by Tom Neenan for episode 42 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown! ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Buy books featured in this and other episodes https://uk.bookshop.org/sho...
George AI Martin? Is it art? 21.11.2025 35:27
Alice is joined by Kate Samas to discuss the latest in speculative fiction, including an accusation that the latest George RR Martin release has AI generated art. 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 📚 Buy books featured in this and oth...
Villains as heroes // Plur1bus // Improvised crampons 12.11.2025 39:46
Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 40 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown! ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Buy books featured in this and other episodes https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Realm...
Ontologypunk // RimWorld // RoboCop 05.11.2025 37:18
Writer and podcaster Nate Crowley joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 39 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown! ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Buy books featured in this and other episodes https://uk....
Portals // Frankenstein // Vorkosigan Saga 29.10.2025 36:33
Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 38 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast Realms Unknown! 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate ❤️🔥 Buy 'A Passion For Passion' audiobook https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/news/we-are-18-t6flf-5n9mc 📚 Buy books featured in this and other episodes https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Realms...
Words of power // Magic of language // Earthsea 21.10.2025 39:57
Myq Kaplan joins Alice Fraser this week for another sci-fi and fantasy packed episode of Realms Unknown! 🔔 Set a reminder to watch Myq's new comedy special Rini on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0uf9i_z-Aw 💰 Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate 📚 Buy books featured in this and other episodes here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Re...
Fan fiction // Alchemised // Alan Moore 14.10.2025 31:52
It's an Alice-only special this week on Realms Unknown! 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS APP Sora 2 FILM Barbie WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN? Damned Whores and God’s Police - Anne Summers Queen Demon - Martha Wells The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Carusso Sixteen Ways To Defend a Walled City - K.J. Parker TROPE ON A ROPE Being able to...
We made a hit book, and saw none of the money! Chris and Alice Unleashed!!! B'Ankruptcy Edition 08.10.2025 42:05
Chris and Alice tell the story of their experiences around Alice's hit book A Passion For Passion. A book that has generated over £50,000 in sales (maybe much more), yet we have barely seen a Penny. We tell the story of the publishers Unbound and Boundless who collapsed in debt, having failed to deliver for us (and a bunch of other authors). BUT, we won't give up. We'll fight for our money, and we...
Post-colonial Africa // Alien: Earth // District 9 30.09.2025 37:03
Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for another sci-fi and fantasy packed episode of Realms Unknown! 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS TV Doctor Who PLAY Amadeus GAME Fortnite TV The Boys TV Peacemaker FILM A Nightmare On Elm Street FILM Longlegs WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING? Alien:Earth MINES OF UURGH The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins PLAY Harry Po...
Installing buttons // Katherine Rundell // Harry Potter 23.09.2025 35:14
Joining Alice Fraser this week is the brilliant Eleanor Morton! 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown Reading list to follow! 📯 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...
Competence // Star Trek // Outlander 16.09.2025 40:25
Joining Alice Fraser this week is the satisfyingly and unrelentingly competent Tom Neenan! (The Mash Report, The Hauntening) 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS TV Severance TV Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning FILM The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King FILM Dune TV Twisted Metal FILM The Creator TV Outlander: Blood of My Blood WHAT HAVE YOU B...
Paladins // Grady Hendrix // Star Wars: Starfighter 02.09.2025 41:41
Joining Alice Fraser this week is Realms Unknown firm favourite Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening). 📚 Buy recommended books here! https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown NEWS FILM Star Wars: Starfighter FILM K-Pop Demon Hunters WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN INTO? Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix My Best Friend’s Exorcism - Grady Hendrix Clockwork Boys - T....
Big news next week 29.08.2025 0:35
For complicated reasons we've taken a week off. Enjoy our many shows, and hang on for something exciting! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Bodies // Summer of Horror // Befuzzled kings 19.08.2025 38:32
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...
Interesting POVs // Romance // Dave Bautista 12.08.2025 33:13
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.o...
Time loops // Bring Her Back // Time loops 05.08.2025 36:58
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/RealmsUnknown NEWS FILM At...
Arthurian legends // Perfume // The Dark is Rising 29.07.2025 35:43
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/RealmsUnknown NEWS FILM The Odyssey TV Star Tr...
Disguises // Superman // Quantum Leap 22.07.2025 36:17
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 meanings...
Red Sonja // Medieval Fayres // Funny Fantasy 15.07.2025 40:02
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 a...
Redemption Arcs // Comics // Resident Alien 08.07.2025 40:50
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! NEWS Isles of the Emberdark - Brandon Sanderson Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson Elantris - Brandon Sanderson The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss WHAT ARE YOU INTO? GAME Clank! GAME Lords of Waterdeep Sabriel - Garth Nix Lirael -...
Flintlock fantasy // 28 Years Later // Culturepunk 01.07.2025 42:00
Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 24 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations! Episode 24 This 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...
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