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Ep. 15
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Hosts Alice Fraser and Chris Skinner bring you episode 15 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for genre fiction tropes, news and recommendations!
This week, we're looking at actual parenting in sci fi and fantasy!
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Episode 15
In this week's sci fi and fantasy news, the new trailer for Predator: Badlands is pretty fantastic and horror movie Sinners starring Michael B. Jordan is doing huge things at the box office.
Chris had a really joyous time watching the stage production of Studio Ghibli's My Neighbour Totoro, and enjoyed bingeing the TV series Paradise. Alice has been laid on her back reading A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett and The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso.
Chris isn't keen on the trope of the thick cockney-sounding low level bad guys, and Alice notes the trope of kids being aged up and dropped back into the plot later on, or even people having previously undeclared secret children!
Alice's mines of urrgh this week is the comic book Phantom which she enjoyed as a child, but has not dated well unless you're particularly keen on white saviour complex.
For all of the books mentioned in the sub genre deep dive this week, please see the lists below!
Alice's book
Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion
Chris' podcast
News
FILM Predator: Badlands
FILM: Sinners
What have you been into?
THEATRE (/FILM) My Neighbour Totoro
A Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso
TV Paradise
Sub-genre deep dive: parenting
TV Raised by Wolves
MANGA Lone Wolf and Cub - writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima
TV Sweet Tooth
Heir to Sevenwaters - Juliet Marillier
GRAPHIC NOVEL Saga
FILM Beasts of the Southern Wild
GAME God of War
Tehanu - Ursula Le Guin
Broken Earth trilogy - N K Jemisin
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
Thud - Terry Pratchett
The mines of urrrgh
COMIC - Phantom
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