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Ep. 20
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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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