Realms Unknown

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

Alice Fraser and James Nokise bring you episode 23 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations! Episode 23 This 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 -...

Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 22 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations! Episode 22 This week's news respectfully looks at buff geek Henry Cavill's forthcoming Highlander movie, and Tom and Alice dive into all manner of good things sci fi and fantasy. This week's deep dive is all about translated works! Alice Fraser - A Passio...

Alice is joined by Chris Skinner to discuss the work of Tamora Pierce. They also chat about Murderbot and Sarah J Maas - is Romantasy sexy enough? Search for Chris’s show Mildly Informed in your pod feed now. 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://thebuglepodcas...

Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 20 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations! This week, it's all about neurodivergent heroes in sci-fi and fantasy! Episode 20 This week's news features Guillermo del Toro's new Frankenstein movie, the new Predator: Killer of Killers movie and is gravity proof that life on Earth is actually a simula...

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 w...

Host Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening) bring you episode 18 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations! This week, we're looking at experiments in form! Episode 18 This week's news features the Highlander remake moving to Amazon, Sinners continuing to tear up the box office, and the sad introduction of AI-narrated audi...

Host Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton bring you episode 17 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations! This week, we're looking at early sci fi and fantasy! Episode 17 This week's news features the Apple TV+ series Foundation, a surprisingly sexual story about E.T. and how Margaret Attwood receiving an entertainment award may distract from similar...

Host Alice Fraser and fellow writer, podcaster and comedian Andrew Hunter Murray (QI, Private Eye, There's No Such Thing As A Fish) bring you episode 16 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for genre fiction tropes, news and recommendations! This week, we're looking at heroes operating outside of the law in sci fi and fantasy! Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our show...