Show Notes
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 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 Passion
News TV Squid Game USA
What have you been into of late? FILM 28 Years Later Gods of Blood and Powder - Brian McClennan FILM M3GAN 2.0
Sub genre deep dive - flintlock fiction TV Sharpe Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - K. J. Parker The Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne - Brian Staveley GAME Dungeons & Dragons Spelljammer TV Shadow and Bone Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo The Cardinal’s Blades - Pierre Pevel The Phoenix Guards - Steven Brust Five Hundred Years After - Steven Brust GAME Assassin’s Creed
Mines of Urrgh FILM 28 Years Later FILM Severance FILM Predator FILM Snow White
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