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Unfiction // Dinotopia // Implausibly large ribcages
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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