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Ontologypunk // RimWorld // RoboCop

Ep. 39

Writer and podcaster Nate Crowley 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 Crowley

The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack - Nate Crowley

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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