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 Passion for Passion

Alice Fraser - Calm World: Introduction to Meditation

Tom Neenan - Zeroes - David Reed

News

FILM Highlander

APP Zombies! Run!

What have you been enjoying?

FILM Under The Skin

Under The Skin - Michael Faber

Behooved - M. Stevenson

Trope on a rope - bikini armour / warrior maiden vagina chokehold

Jill Bearup - Just Stab Me Now

Sub genre deep dive - sci fi and fantasy in translation

The Odyssey

The Iliad

Beowulf - Maria Dahvana Headley

Beowulf - Seamus Heany

Asterix & Obelix

The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem

The Melting - Lize Spit

ANIME Neon Genesis Evangelion

TV Dark

The Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko

FILM The City of Lost Children

Mines of Urrgh

FILM Elysium

FILM Mountainhead

Mr Men - Roger Hargreaves

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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?

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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 simulation?

Hear what Alice and Tom have been enjoying recently, which tropes they love or hate, then take a deep dive with them into early sci-fi and fantasy, and hear the things that they used to love but now make them feel a bit urrrgh.

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

Tom Neenan - The Hauntening

Tom Neenan Is Not All Men

News

FILM Frankenstein

FILM Predator: Killer of Killers

FILM Mountainhead

What have you been into?

TV Rick and Morty

Blood Song - Anthony Ryan

Witch King - Martha Wells

Sub-genre deep dive: neurodivergent heroes

Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

TV Bones

Temperance Brennan series - Kathy Reichs

A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett

TV Star Trek

TV Red Dwarf

The mines of urrrgh

FILM Passengers

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