If you’re tired of experts, this is NOT the show for you. Competency porn stars @tpneenan.bsky.social & @alicefraser.bsky.social talk pale buttocks in the gloom, Patton Oswald in the wild, Straight-to-camera-blogging, the benevolent internet and BELTERS!!! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...

This week on Realms Unknown we’re going to talk about what books gave you weird ideas about how the world worked / what was sexy / what was cool. Let us know which works in sci fi or fantasy installed your ideas, and which ones!

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week is Competence. Sometimes known as competence porn, it’s just work that has people doing a good job of whatever they’re doing. Suggestions for competence in Science Fiction or Fantasy? Give them to me!

Hold tight, Realms Unknowners. There will be good news of some sort at some point possibly soon (ish). Back to regular broadcast schedule next week, realms willing. To the book pile 📚

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Paladins! Righteous, mighty, fraught? What are your favourite paladin storylines and why!

Has 2025 seen the greatest summer of cinematic horror in recent history? 🧟‍♂️ Hear @tpneenan.bsky.social state his case! Meanwhile he and @alicefraser.bsky.social deep dive into the interesting use of bodies and embodiment in sci-fi and fantasy 📚 youtu.be/578iEKNFJl4?...

Has 2025 seen the greatest summer of cinematic horror in recent history? 🧟‍♂️ Hear @tpneenan.bsky.social state his case! Meanwhile he and @alicefraser.bsky.social deep dive into the interesting use of bodies and embodiment in sci-fi and fantasy 📚 youtu.be/578iEKNFJl4?...

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive is bodies! Good uses of embodiment in science fiction or fantasy. Slightly more abstract subgenre this week, so go wild with your recommendations and tell me why you think your game / book/ movie / show / manga fits the brief.

On this week's Realms Unknown, @alicefraser.bsky.social and @jenreadsromance.bsky.social from the excellent romance novel podcast @fatedmates.net discuss the use of POVs 📚 And Dave Bautista in Outlander? Imagine! pod.link/1791079569/e...

Listening to the new @realmsunknown.bsky.social and spotting that Apple Podcasts’ transcription model thinks it’s called “Chad GPT” has made my morning

I did not expect my scifi/fantasy love to intersect with my bluegrass/Bela Fleck love but today's or yesterday's or was it tomorrow's episode of @realmsunknown.bsky.social did so. Bravo Alice!

This week’s episode of @realmsunknown.bsky.social will have the brilliant @jenreadsromance.bsky.social of one of my favourite podcasts, @fatedmates.net The subgenre deep dive for this week is interesting uses of Point Of View (POV) in sci-fi and fantasy! Across all media! Recommend away, please?

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This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive is time loops! From Groundhog Day to Source Code, from Edge of Tomorrow to Russian Doll, let us know your favourite shows, games, books and TV shows that deal with time loops!

Unsheathe your sword with aplomb (insert schwing sound here) while enjoying @eleanormorton.bsky.social & @alicefraser.bsky.social discuss buff little piggies named Ralph, Muppet baby Odysseus, and @pendaraniwys.bsky.social Welshian epic! It’s awesome! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...

Deep dive this week for @realmsunknown.bsky.social is sci fi and fantasy with strong Arthurian myth elements! What are your favourites in shows, movies, books, games or OTHER?!

FAO Buglers/Garglers/Last Poster/Realms Unknowners in or near London, I saw Alice this morning for the podcast record and let me tell you she is firing on all cylinders having had A FULL NIGHT'S SLEEP! Get yourself to what was already going to be an amazing double header tonight in Camden!

This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive is DISGUISES! Let me know your favourite sci fi and fantasy books / games / movies / comics / shows that make interesting or good use of disguises!

@realmsunknown.bsky.social i know i'm about a month late, but in case none of your listeners are wrestling fans, your 6/17 show Trope on a Rope- choke out with a vagina- move, leaping up wrapping your legs around someone's head and throwing them over is a a pro wrestling move called a hurricanrana.

Oh yes indeed: @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Comedy in Sci-Fi and fantasy. What are your favourites?

Redemption Arcs! Comics!! This week we welcome back the magnificent @jackiekashian.bsky.social as she and @alicefraser.bsky.social journey into Realms Unknown! pod.link/1791079569 Subscribe/follow for so much joy and happiness on a weekly basis!

Redemption Arcs! Comics!! This week we welcome back the magnificent @jackiekashian.bsky.social as she and @alicefraser.bsky.social journey into Realms Unknown! pod.link/1791079569 Subscribe/follow for so much joy and happiness on a weekly basis!

I’ll be there! Let’s all go, London based @thebugle.bsky.social and @realmsunknown.bsky.social people.

The subgenre deep dive for @realmsunknown.bsky.social this week is Redemption Arcs. Let us know your favourite redemption arcs in sci fi and fantasy (books, games, comics, movies, shows and more)

Huge WORLD EXCLUSIVE as a brand-new genre is coined on... Realms Unknown! Line up to give big manly slappity slap slap back slaps to @tpneenan.bsky.social Head to your podfeed of choice to listen to him and @alicefraser.bsky.social discuss this, flintlock fantasy and more! pod.link/1791079569

Huge WORLD EXCLUSIVE as a brand-new genre is coined on... Realms Unknown! Line up to give big manly slappity slap slap back slaps to @tpneenan.bsky.social Head to your podfeed of choice to listen to him and @alicefraser.bsky.social discuss this, flintlock fantasy and more! pod.link/1791079569

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This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social Subgenre Deep Dive is Flintlock Fantasy That’s gunpowder-era warfare alongside magic. The Powder Mage Trilogy by Brian McClellan, Assassin's Creed III. In movies, arguably pirates of the Caribbean falls into the genre. Tell me your flintlock faves!

Bootstrap a stick in a log & eat some ants while you listen to Master of the Universe @jamesnokise.bsky.social & sentient roomba @alicefraser.bsky.social talk psychic grandmas, Final fantasy Rock’n’roll, Russel Crowe’s stupid hair & why old men should stop taking T. shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...

Buglers and Garglers rejoice! 📯 🚰 It turns out @jamesnokise.bsky.social is a sci-fi and fantasy guy, and joins @alicefraser.bsky.social on this week's episode of Realms Unknown! ▶️ youtu.be/9ekBOGSuFr8?... Remember to hit the 🔔 to be notified of all new videos from The Bugle channel

Buglers and Garglers rejoice! 📯 🚰 It turns out @jamesnokise.bsky.social is a sci-fi and fantasy guy, and joins @alicefraser.bsky.social on this week's episode of Realms Unknown! ▶️ youtu.be/9ekBOGSuFr8?... Remember to hit the 🔔 to be notified of all new videos from The Bugle channel

@realmsunknown.bsky.social Subgenre Deep Dive this week is side-characters-as-leads. Whether it’s Murderbot, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead or Guards! Guards! We want scifi and fantasy books, TV, movies, games etc where our lead is someone who’d usually be a side character. Recs please!

Scrape off the hoarfrost, find your manhole, & join snorkmaiden @tpneenan.bsky.social & Mr. greedy's nemesis @alicefraser.bsky.social as they put their hoofs down and explore how nerds get buff, the pros/cons of bikini armor, & weird stuff to do in a van. shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...

Hey you! Want to deep dive into sci fi and fantasy in translation? Then come and join @alicefraser.bsky.social and @tpneenan.bsky.social and journey into Realms Unknown! youtu.be/eXdmJhbn4Hc?... Don't forget to hit that 🔔 to be notified when new episodes drop!

The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Works In Translation. Whether it’s Sergei Lukyaneko’s Night Watch series, the Three Body Problem or watching Dark in German with the subtitles on, what are your favourite Sci Fi or Fantasy works in translation?

Authored by Realms Unknown co-host Henry Fraser no less!

A lot of love for Murderbot from Realms Unknown listeners. Anyone else been giving it a read/watch? Let us know!

This week's sub-genre deep dive is neurodivergent heroes! 🦸‍♀️ Come join @alicefraser.bsky.social and @tpneenan.bsky.social and journey into Realms Unknown! youtu.be/is4Fe43RNmw?...

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week is Neurodivergent Heroes: from Sherlock Holmes via Spock to Murderbot neurodivergent heroes are done well or badly in a lot of sci fi & fantasy. Do give me your favourite neurodivergent hero recs, in movies, Tv, Books, games or comics!

And don't forget to subscribe via your podcast app of choice! pod.link/1791079569 Also, feel free to tell everyone who might enjoy the podcast how much they'd enjoy the podcast.

Cut your hair short, bind your chests and feet, collect your wives, and get ready for the live action reboot of @patricklenton.bsky.social & @alicefraser.bsky.social smelling each others musks and talking explosive emotional support drones, Jason Stratham(s) + Xena! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...

I had a lot of fun talking about fantasy books on Realms Unknown, I love fantasy books

Would you like a gender in sci-fi and fantasy special? Then join @alicefraser.bsky.social and @patricklenton.bsky.social and journey into Realms Unknown! 🔔 youtu.be/phdIMhSSpGQ?...

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deepdive this week is gender; whether a society where gendered assumptions are flipped (The Priory of the Orange Tree), or doing away with binaries (The Left Hand Of Darkness / Ancillary Justice); or characters without gender; or gender exaggerated to the Nth 1/2

I love @thebugle.bsky.social I think @alicefraser.bsky.social is incredible and (as followers may have spotted) I read a lot of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Therefore @realmsunknown.bsky.social is the podcast for me: funny, informative and welcoming. #BookSky

From the forbidden quadrant down under, milky-eyed @tpneenan.bsky.social & sword & penis aficionado @alicefraser.bsky.social talk quirky sensitive scarecrow boys, ancient IP, @mikeduncan.bsky.social’s Martian Revolution (so good!) GUARDS! GAURDS! Where are my GUAURDS! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...

You are invited in to geek out on...Realms Unknown! This week we're looking at experiments in form and @tpneenan.bsky.social explains to @alicefraser.bsky.social why everyone is right to be raving about Sinners youtu.be/VNxXKT-0ZLM?... #scifi #fantasy #genrefiction #booksky

You are invited in to geek out on...Realms Unknown! This week we're looking at experiments in form and @tpneenan.bsky.social explains to @alicefraser.bsky.social why everyone is right to be raving about Sinners youtu.be/VNxXKT-0ZLM?... #scifi #fantasy #genrefiction #booksky

Subgenre deep dive this week is non-traditionally published; experiments with form, genre and medium in sci fi and fantasy. Think webcomics, indie published books, The Last Post (lol), the way the Revolutions podcast suddenly dropped a season of speculative Martian Revolution Recs please!

Sky-rate pirate (TM) @alicefraser.bsky.social & fungal naysayer @eleanormorton.bsky.social discuss boring children, the time before men had feelings, and the dark side of Belgium(and they don’t mean chocolates, (unless Tintin shaped)) on this wk’s Realms Unknown!!!! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...