Realms Unknown
@realmsunknown.bsky.social
Fantasy, Sci Fi and speculative fiction podcast, observed through the comedic lens of The Bugle. Hosted by Alice Fraser and friends.
Expect reviews, tropes and hot takes on books, film, games and TV from past, present and future.
Expect reviews, tropes and hot takes on books, film, games and TV from past, present and future.
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The subgenre deep dive for this week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social is Villain-as-hero.
@tpneenan.bsky.social is our guest and he just watched the new Predator movie where one of the ruthless murder-monsters is Our Cool Protagonist.
Let me know your favourite villain as hero texts!
@tpneenan.bsky.social is our guest and he just watched the new Predator movie where one of the ruthless murder-monsters is Our Cool Protagonist.
Let me know your favourite villain as hero texts!
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The subgenre deep dive for this week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social is Villain-as-hero.
@tpneenan.bsky.social is our guest and he just watched the new Predator movie where one of the ruthless murder-monsters is Our Cool Protagonist.
Let me know your favourite villain as hero texts!
@tpneenan.bsky.social is our guest and he just watched the new Predator movie where one of the ruthless murder-monsters is Our Cool Protagonist.
Let me know your favourite villain as hero texts!
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Are you dead? No problem. Grab some bone lube & enjoy DNF absolutionist @frogcroakley.bsky.social & rim joker @alicefraser.bsky.social as they talk paleo fauna, Robocop ontology, & books 4 bad holidays. Plus, Alice defends her extremely competent eyelining skills. shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
Ontologypunk // RimWorld // RoboCop | Realms Unknown
With Alice Fraser and Nate Crawley
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November 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Are you dead? No problem. Grab some bone lube & enjoy DNF absolutionist @frogcroakley.bsky.social & rim joker @alicefraser.bsky.social as they talk paleo fauna, Robocop ontology, & books 4 bad holidays. Plus, Alice defends her extremely competent eyelining skills. shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
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Thank you @alicefraser.bsky.social and @realmsunknown.bsky.social for yet another reading suggestion. The #Murderbot series continues your perfect score of book recommendations. Not a single DNF so far.
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Thank you @alicefraser.bsky.social and @realmsunknown.bsky.social for yet another reading suggestion. The #Murderbot series continues your perfect score of book recommendations. Not a single DNF so far.
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This week our guest on @realmsunknown.bsky.social is the mighty @frogcroakley.bsky.social, who chose for our subgenre deep dive, dead POV characters / ontologypunk.
Robocop, The Prestige, vampire narrators, Frankenstein, rec us sci fi and fantasy that relays a character from beyond the veil.
Robocop, The Prestige, vampire narrators, Frankenstein, rec us sci fi and fantasy that relays a character from beyond the veil.
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This week our guest on @realmsunknown.bsky.social is the mighty @frogcroakley.bsky.social, who chose for our subgenre deep dive, dead POV characters / ontologypunk.
Robocop, The Prestige, vampire narrators, Frankenstein, rec us sci fi and fantasy that relays a character from beyond the veil.
Robocop, The Prestige, vampire narrators, Frankenstein, rec us sci fi and fantasy that relays a character from beyond the veil.
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Heyo,
We are looking for some great guest cohosts to come on @realmsunknown.bsky.social with me.
Know any podcasters / YouTubers or authors who are very funny and very into Sci-Fi or Fantasy? Recommend them here please!
We are looking for some great guest cohosts to come on @realmsunknown.bsky.social with me.
Know any podcasters / YouTubers or authors who are very funny and very into Sci-Fi or Fantasy? Recommend them here please!
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Heyo,
We are looking for some great guest cohosts to come on @realmsunknown.bsky.social with me.
Know any podcasters / YouTubers or authors who are very funny and very into Sci-Fi or Fantasy? Recommend them here please!
We are looking for some great guest cohosts to come on @realmsunknown.bsky.social with me.
Know any podcasters / YouTubers or authors who are very funny and very into Sci-Fi or Fantasy? Recommend them here please!
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Problems with the pressure differential of your portals? Join always clever @alicefraser.bsky.social & analogue de-Dunker @tpneenan.bsky.social as they take on bad dads, Brechtian mirror face punching no-nos, & why rosé does NOT pair well with a game of Portals. 🤮 shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
Portals // Frankenstein // Vorkosigan Saga | Realms Unknown
With Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan
shows.acast.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Problems with the pressure differential of your portals? Join always clever @alicefraser.bsky.social & analogue de-Dunker @tpneenan.bsky.social as they take on bad dads, Brechtian mirror face punching no-nos, & why rosé does NOT pair well with a game of Portals. 🤮 shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
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The @realmsunknown.bsky.social deep dive this week is into Portals. Let us know your favourite use of portals in Sci Fi or fantasy.
Give me books! TV! Movies! Games! Comics and anime! Tell me what does portals well and what’s interesting about it!
Give me books! TV! Movies! Games! Comics and anime! Tell me what does portals well and what’s interesting about it!
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The @realmsunknown.bsky.social deep dive this week is into Portals. Let us know your favourite use of portals in Sci Fi or fantasy.
Give me books! TV! Movies! Games! Comics and anime! Tell me what does portals well and what’s interesting about it!
Give me books! TV! Movies! Games! Comics and anime! Tell me what does portals well and what’s interesting about it!
Does listening to an audiobook class as reading?
Dive in with your thoughts!
youtu.be/nAuGJmrMEkQ?...
Dive in with your thoughts!
youtu.be/nAuGJmrMEkQ?...
Does listening to an audiobook class as reading? The debate FINALLY settled!
YouTube video by The Bugle
youtu.be
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Does listening to an audiobook class as reading?
Dive in with your thoughts!
youtu.be/nAuGJmrMEkQ?...
Dive in with your thoughts!
youtu.be/nAuGJmrMEkQ?...
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The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week will be Words Of Power; Sci Fi and fantasy where language has power in interesting and exciting ways.
Give me your recommendations! Books! Movies! Games! Shows! Anime & Comics!?
Give me your recommendations! Books! Movies! Games! Shows! Anime & Comics!?
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week will be Words Of Power; Sci Fi and fantasy where language has power in interesting and exciting ways.
Give me your recommendations! Books! Movies! Games! Shows! Anime & Comics!?
Give me your recommendations! Books! Movies! Games! Shows! Anime & Comics!?
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This week’s subgenre is fan fiction; whether it’s Manacled becoming Alchemised, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Twilight or how all fantasy is fanfiction about other fantasy, give me your thoughts and recs about fanfic intersections in sci fi and fantasy.
October 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This week’s subgenre is fan fiction; whether it’s Manacled becoming Alchemised, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Twilight or how all fantasy is fanfiction about other fantasy, give me your thoughts and recs about fanfic intersections in sci fi and fantasy.
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This is a really good discussion by a couple of people who dealt with releasing a book through Unbound as it collapsed. @alicefraser.bsky.social and @chrisskinner.bsky.social are great, Alice's book is fantastic, and it's really unfair this happened to so many great people. youtu.be/8l73x6t27U4?...
We made a hit book, and saw none of the money! Chris and Alice Unleashed!!! B'Ankruptcy Edition
YouTube video by The Bugle
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October 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is a really good discussion by a couple of people who dealt with releasing a book through Unbound as it collapsed. @alicefraser.bsky.social and @chrisskinner.bsky.social are great, Alice's book is fantastic, and it's really unfair this happened to so many great people. youtu.be/8l73x6t27U4?...
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October 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Hone your arcane magic & join the suggestible @tpneenan.bsky.social, the less-suggestible @alicefraser.bsky.social & pro-ick normy @podchris.bsky.social to discuss emote scandals, talking cloud/angel/dead people tropes, kings of w(H)ales, & Xenomorph plushies! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
Post-colonial Africa // Alien: Earth // District 9 | Realms Unknown
With Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan
shows.acast.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Hone your arcane magic & join the suggestible @tpneenan.bsky.social, the less-suggestible @alicefraser.bsky.social & pro-ick normy @podchris.bsky.social to discuss emote scandals, talking cloud/angel/dead people tropes, kings of w(H)ales, & Xenomorph plushies! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
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Install your buttons, put on your fingerless gloves, & join lice-less orphans @alicefraser.bsky.social & @eleanormorton.bsky.social as they discuss dry swallowing, pocket knives (cool?), carbonated beverage Han Solo, & harnessing horniness to gain life skills.
shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
Installing buttons // Katherine Rundell // Harry Potter | Realms Unknown
With Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton
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September 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Install your buttons, put on your fingerless gloves, & join lice-less orphans @alicefraser.bsky.social & @eleanormorton.bsky.social as they discuss dry swallowing, pocket knives (cool?), carbonated beverage Han Solo, & harnessing horniness to gain life skills.
shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
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The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Postcolonial African sci fi and fantasy meeting western anglosphere markets.
Whether it’s district 9, Nnedi Okorafor novels, Black Panther, the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, give me your recommendations!
Whether it’s district 9, Nnedi Okorafor novels, Black Panther, the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, give me your recommendations!
September 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Postcolonial African sci fi and fantasy meeting western anglosphere markets.
Whether it’s district 9, Nnedi Okorafor novels, Black Panther, the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, give me your recommendations!
Whether it’s district 9, Nnedi Okorafor novels, Black Panther, the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, give me your recommendations!
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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...
shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
Competence // Star Trek // Outlander | Realms Unknown
With Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan
shows.acast.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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...
shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...
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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!
Let us know which works in sci fi or fantasy installed your ideas, and which ones!
September 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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!
Let us know which works in sci fi or fantasy installed your ideas, and which ones!
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@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!
Suggestions for competence in Science Fiction or Fantasy? Give them to me!
September 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
@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!
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 📚
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 📚
September 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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 📚
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 📚
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@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Paladins!
Righteous, mighty, fraught? What are your favourite paladin storylines and why!
Righteous, mighty, fraught? What are your favourite paladin storylines and why!
August 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Paladins!
Righteous, mighty, fraught? What are your favourite paladin storylines and why!
Righteous, mighty, fraught? What are your favourite paladin storylines and why!
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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?...
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 memory?
YouTube video by The Bugle
youtu.be
August 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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?...
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?...
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 memory?
YouTube video by The Bugle
youtu.be
August 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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?...
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?...
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@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.
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.
August 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
@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.
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...
And Dave Bautista in Outlander? Imagine!
pod.link/1791079569/e...
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August 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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...
And Dave Bautista in Outlander? Imagine!
pod.link/1791079569/e...
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Listening to the new @realmsunknown.bsky.social and spotting that Apple Podcasts’ transcription model thinks it’s called “Chad GPT” has made my morning
August 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Listening to the new @realmsunknown.bsky.social and spotting that Apple Podcasts’ transcription model thinks it’s called “Chad GPT” has made my morning