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Alice has an important update about what's to come in 2026
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Alice Fraser is joined by Chris Skinner as they look ahead to 2026 and discuss the exciting forthcoming releases in the sci-fi and fantasy realms.
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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka
Fire Boy - Sami Shah
FILM The Grinch
FILM Mary Poppins
TROPE ON A ROPE
FILM Disclosure Day
COMING UP IN 2026
A Trade of Blood - Robert Jackson Bennett
Platform Decay - Martha Wells
Queen Demon - Martha Wells
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
Operation Bounce House - Matt Dinniman
TV A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight
FILM Twins
Twelve Months - Jim Butcher
TV Silo
The Tapestry of Fate - Shannon Chakraborty
Wolf Worm - T. Kingfisher
FILM The Odyssey
TV Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85
TV Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen
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Rejoice! For Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser for a special festive episode 46 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown!
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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!
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Eleanor Morton - Life Lessons From Historical Women
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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!
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The Twice-Dead King: Omnibus - Nate Crowley
Notes from Small Planets - Nate Crowley
NEWS
FILM The Magic Faraway Tree
Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
FILM Batman
TV Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
Gumnut Babies - May Gibbs
Wallet Babies - May Gibbs
Snugglepot and Cuddlepie - May Gibbs
King’s Watch series - Mark Hayden
TROPE ON A ROPE
Implausibly large ribcages
GAME Subnautica
GAME Borderlands
FILM Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
FILM Godzilla vs Kong
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
Shadow of the Gods series - John Gwynne
Looming roar monsters
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Unfiction / fictional non-fiction
Dinotopia series - James Gurney
Expedition - Wayne Barlowe
PODCAST Revolutions - Mike Duncan
The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island - Weta Workshop
FILM King Kong
GAME Neuorocracy
Notes from Small Planets - Nate Crowley
MINES OF URRGH
The Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
TV Wolf Hall
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The brilliant Joz Norris joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 43 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown!
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NEWS
TV Stargate
The Will Of The Many - James Islington
The Strength Of The Few - James Islington
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
GAME Spirit Island
Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson
All Fours - Miranda July
The 13th Witch - Mark Hayden
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Choose Your Own Adventure
SHOW The Dark Room - John Robertson
Fighting Fantasy series - Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone
FILM Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman
FILM Groundhog Day
Vulcanverse - Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson
To Be Or Not To Be - Ryan North
Romeo And/Or Juliet - Ryan North
GRAPHIC NOVEL: Star Trek: Lower Decks - Warp Your Own Way - Ryan North
COMIC SERIES The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl - Ryan North
MINES OF URRGH
Spider-Man
Conan series - Robert E. Howard
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Alice Fraser is joined this week by Tom Neenan for episode 42 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown!
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NEWS
A Feast of Crows - George RR Martin
GAME Zombies, Run
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
FILM The Running Man
The Will of the Many - James Islington
The Strength of the Few - James Islington
Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
TV Tumble Leaf
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Iterations
FILM The Running Man
FILM The Long Walk
TV IT: Welcome To Derry
FILM The Fly
FILM Alien
FILM Aliens
FILM Nosferatu
Circe - Madelline Miller
Song of Achilles - Madelline Miller
Stone Blind - Natalie Haynes
Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
FILM King Kong
MINES OF URRGH
FILM King Kong
TV Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll
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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.
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Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 40 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown!
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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
FILM Predator: Badlands
Queen Demon - Martha Wells
The Flashman Papers - George MacDonald Fraser
TV Plur1bus - Vince Gilligan
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Villains as heroes
Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
Dune - Frank Herbert
FILM Jurassic Park
FILM A Nightmare on Elm Street
FILM Child’s Play
FILM Full Metal Jacket
FILM Apocalypse Now
FILM Saving Private Ryan
FILM Wolf Creek
TV Dexter
Hannibal
MINES OF URRGH
FILM Wanted
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - Stephen R. Donaldson
FILM The Flintstones
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Writer and podcaster Nate Crawley joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 39 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast, Realms Unknown!
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NEWS
TV The Witcher
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
GAME RimWorld - Odyssey
Queen Demon - Martha Wells
TV Severance
TROPE ON A ROPE
FILM Jurassic Park
TV Once Upon A Time
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Dead POV characters/Ontologypunk
Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
Rivers of London series - Ben Aaronovitch
Shawn McGuire
Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
Twice Dead King series - Nate Crawley
The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack - Nate Crawley
FILM RoboCop
MINES OF URRGH
The Amtrak Wars - Patrick Lilley
Tomorrow When the War Began - John Marsden
The Once and Future King - T. H. White
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Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for episode 38 of your favourite sci-fi and fantasy podcast Realms Unknown!
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NEWS
COMIC/FILM/TV Something Is Killing The Children
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
FILM Frankenstein
TROPE ON A ROPE
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
FILM Apocalypse Now
TV Arcane
FILM Doctor Who: The Movie
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Portals
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Vorkosigan Saga series - Lois McMaster Bujold
GAME Portal 2
FILM Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
TV Doctor Who - Nightmare of Eden
TV Doctor Who - Timelash
TV Sliders
TV Stargate SG-1
The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
Hyperion Cantos series - Dan Simmons
MINES OF URRGH
The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
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Myq Kaplan joins Alice Fraser this week for another sci-fi and fantasy packed episode of Realms Unknown!
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WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Antkind - Charlie Kaufman
Babel - RF Kuang
TROPE ON A ROPE
Exhalation: Stories - Ted Chiang
FILM Looper
TV Buffy the Vampire Slayer
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - words of power
The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin
Rumplestiltskin - Jacob and Willhelm Grimm
Dylan Brody - Merlyn’s Mistake
GAME Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
GAME Myst
TV Star Trek
MINES OF URRGH
COMIC/TV The Boys - Garth Ennis
COMIC/TV Preacher - Garth Ennis
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It's an Alice-only special this week on Realms Unknown!
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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 cut a chain with a sword
SUB-GENRE DEEP DIVE - Fan fiction
Manacled - SenLinYu
Alchemised - SenLinYu
COMIC The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore
Sun Eater series - Christopher Ruocchio
FILM Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Licence Expired: The Unauthorised James Bond - Madeline Ashby and David Nickle
COMIC Watchmen - Alan Moore
COMIC Supreme - Alan Moore
COMIC Tom Strong - Alan Moore
COMIC Neonomicon - Alan Moore
COMIC Providence - Alan Moore
COMIC The Courtyard - Alan Moore
COMIC Jack Staff - Paul Grist
COMIC Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
COMIC Michael Fiffe - Copra
Twilight series - Stephanie Meyer
Fifty Shade of Grey - E.L. James
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Maas
AUDIOBOOK A Passion For Passion - Alice Fraser. Buy NOW!
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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 have released it, in full as an Audiobook, available now... https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/
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Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for another sci-fi and fantasy packed episode of Realms Unknown!
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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 Potter & The Cursed Child
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Post-colonial African sci fi and fantasy meeting Western Anglosphere markets
TV Doctor Who - The Story and the Engine
Rosewater - Tade Thompson (from the Wormwood trilogy)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
FILM District 9
FILM Elysium
FILM Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae
Out There Screaming - Jordan Peele
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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the brilliant Eleanor Morton!
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Reading list to follow!
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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the satisfyingly and unrelentingly competent Tom Neenan! (The Mash Report, The Hauntening)
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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 BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
TV Only Murders In The Building
The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster
Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie
TROPE ON A ROPE
Something has happened here…
Straight to camera blogging as disasters unfold
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - competence
The Martian - Andy Weir
FILM The Martian
FILM All Is Lost
FILM Die Hard
FILM The Mechanic
The Expanse series - James S. A. Corey
TV The Expanse
FILMS The Bourne franchise
Discworld series - Terry Pratchett
FILM Snatch
TV Doctor Who - Midnight episode
TV Columbo
TV Poirot
TV Jonathan Creek
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
MINES OF EURGH
FILM Ready Player One
Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc
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Joining Alice Fraser this week is Realms Unknown firm favourite Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).
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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. Kingfisher
The Wonder Engine - T. Kingfisher
TROPE ON A ROPE
FILM Mulan
Game of Thrones - George RR Martin
DEEP DIVE - the paladin
Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold
FILM Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
TV Doctor Who - Revelation of the Daleks
COMIC Die - Kieron Gillen
MINES OF URRGH
Rapunzel
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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.
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NEWS
FILM Red Sonja
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?
FILM 28 Years Later
FILM Bring Her Back
FILM Weapons
FILM Together
Swordheart - T Kingfisher
TROPE ON A ROPE
Befuzzled kings and the chaos they leave in their wake
Looking in the mirror, pulling at something and creating a Cronenbergian horror
SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - bodies
FILM Looper
FILM Together
TV Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy
TV Doctor Who - Into The Dalek
FILM Tusk
PODCAST Smodcast
Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis
Ghost In The Shell
Dune - Frank Herbert
TV Alien: Earth
FILM Ex Machina
MINES OF EURRGH
Campery to mean villainy
FILM Jupiter Ascending
TV Twilight
FILM The Little Mermaid
FILM The Lion King
FILM Robin Hood
FILM The Fifth Element
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