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Realms Unknown @realmsunknown.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Hey Realms Unknowners! This week’s sub-genre deep dive is Puppets in Sci-Fi and Fantasy - whether that’s Jim Henson’s fantasy efforts, classic practical effects or as a plot device. What are your favourite puppets in Sci-Fi or Fantasy?

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A lovely boost of confidence for Realms Unknown to be mentioned in the Guardian’s roundup of some favorite pods! #RealmsUnknown #GuardianPick #AliceFraser #ComedyPodcast #PodcastRecommendation #SciFiCommunity #TrendingNow

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

@realmsunknown.bsky.social deep dive this week is Christmas! Sci fi and fantasy that has Christmas themes or anti Christmas themes! Tell me your faves.

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J. Schuberth (they/them) @jmschuberth.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Think medieval babies are ugly? Won’t want to miss white witch @eleanormorton.bsky.social & German soup fan @alicefraser.bsky.social discuss Lockheed Martin war crimes wear, Narnia for atheists, heavy handed socialism, and autopsy eating etiquette. Yum! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...

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Narnia // Stranger Things // Space Jesus | Realms Unknown

With Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton

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Realms Unknown @realmsunknown.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Because sometimes we all need to dive into a wardrobe and escape the world 🦁 Yeah, that's right, it's a Narnia-themed Realms Unknown this week... youtu.be/AhTjORWE9-A?... w/ @alicefraser.bsky.social and @eleanormorton.bsky.social

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Why Aslan is the best Space Jesus of all - it's a Narnia special!

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social deep dive is with @eleanormorton.bsky.social and will be a Narnia deep dive. Tell me your favourite Narnia-inspired or influenced works!

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive this week will be “fictional non-fiction”. Think reference books for fictional science, manuals for technology that doesn’t exist, bestiaries for dragons, Dinotopia, A Passion For Passion. Tell me your favourite fictional non-fiction!

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J. Schuberth (they/them) @jmschuberth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A good book, a warm jumper, what more could a @alicefraser.bsky.social @thebugle.bsky.social fan want for the holidays. (This cricket bats are a nice touch).

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Realms Unknown @realmsunknown.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

You awake to find yourself in a dark room. Do you... A) look for a shopkeeper selling quests B) seek a mysterious stranger giving away maps C) Listen to Realms Unknown! Yeah, that's right, this week's episode features @joznorris.bsky.social and choose your own adventures! tinyurl.com/JozRealm

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The @realmsunknown.bsky.social guest for this week is @joznorris.bsky.social! The subgenre deep dive will be Choose Your Own Adventure. Give us your recommendations, whether it’s books, games, tv, movies or “other”!

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The @realmsunknown.bsky.social deep dive for this week is iterations! Stories that get told and retold in different generations and different forms. Whether it’s Frankenstein brought to life yet again, or a retreading of Shakespeare, prides and prejudicees or Greek Myths, what are your favourites?

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Class. Tell me your favourite sci fi and fantasy that deals with class in interesting or unusual ways. Give me books, tv, movies, games etc. Your recommendations please! (or warnings to steer clear also welcome)

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feverwood.bsky.social @feverwood.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

@alicefraser.bsky.social what is better than reading ‘A Passion for Passion’ Listening to ‘A Passion for Passion’. Thank you.

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Realms Unknown @realmsunknown.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

"And a new novel is out by self-published romantasy maven and online best seller D'Ancey LaGuarde..." ✍️

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

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!

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J. Schuberth (they/them) @jmschuberth.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

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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Ontologypunk // RimWorld // RoboCop | Realms Unknown

With Alice Fraser and Nate Crawley

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Yael Hanover @hiimyael.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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.

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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!

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J. Schuberth (they/them) @jmschuberth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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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Portals // Frankenstein // Vorkosigan Saga | Realms Unknown

With Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

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!

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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!?

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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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Lacci @lacci.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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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We made a hit book, and saw none of the money! Chris and Alice Unleashed!!! B'Ankruptcy Edition

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J. Schuberth (they/them) @jmschuberth.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

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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Post-colonial Africa // Alien: Earth // District 9 | Realms Unknown

With Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan

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J. Schuberth (they/them) @jmschuberth.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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...

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Installing buttons // Katherine Rundell // Harry Potter | Realms Unknown

With Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

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!

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J. Schuberth (they/them) @jmschuberth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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...

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Competence // Star Trek // Outlander | Realms Unknown

With Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

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!

Alice Fraser riding a dragon in space; the icon for Realms Unknown

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

@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!

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Realms Unknown @realmsunknown.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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 📚

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

@realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive for this week is Paladins! Righteous, mighty, fraught? What are your favourite paladin storylines and why!

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Realms Unknown @realmsunknown.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

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?...

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Has 2025 seen the greatest summer of cinematic horror in recent memory?

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Realms Unknown @realmsunknown.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

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Has 2025 seen the greatest summer of cinematic horror in recent memory?

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

@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.

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Realms Unknown @realmsunknown.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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...

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nervechannel sound system @nervechannel.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Listening to the new @realmsunknown.bsky.social and spotting that Apple Podcasts’ transcription model thinks it’s called “Chad GPT” has made my morning

An auto transcript from the latest episode of Realms Unknown where ChatGPT has been transcribed as Chad GPT every time

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Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I did not expect my scifi/fantasy love to intersect with my bluegrass/Bela Fleck love but today's or yesterday's or was it tomorrow's episode of @realmsunknown.bsky.social did so. Bravo Alice!

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

This week’s episode of @realmsunknown.bsky.social will have the brilliant @jenreadsromance.bsky.social of one of my favourite podcasts, @fatedmates.net The subgenre deep dive for this week is interesting uses of Point Of View (POV) in sci-fi and fantasy! Across all media! Recommend away, please?

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive is time loops! From Groundhog Day to Source Code, from Edge of Tomorrow to Russian Doll, let us know your favourite shows, games, books and TV shows that deal with time loops!

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J. Schuberth (they/them) @jmschuberth.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Unsheathe your sword with aplomb (insert schwing sound here) while enjoying @eleanormorton.bsky.social & @alicefraser.bsky.social discuss buff little piggies named Ralph, Muppet baby Odysseus, and @pendaraniwys.bsky.social Welshian epic! It’s awesome! shows.acast.com/6786518e3cee...

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Arthurian legends // Perfume // The Dark is Rising | Realms Unknown

With Alice Fraser and Eleanor Morton

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Deep dive this week for @realmsunknown.bsky.social is sci fi and fantasy with strong Arthurian myth elements! What are your favourites in shows, movies, books, games or OTHER?!

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Ped @pedhunter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

FAO Buglers/Garglers/Last Poster/Realms Unknowners in or near London, I saw Alice this morning for the podcast record and let me tell you she is firing on all cylinders having had A FULL NIGHT'S SLEEP! Get yourself to what was already going to be an amazing double header tonight in Camden!

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Alice Fraser @alicefraser.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This week’s @realmsunknown.bsky.social subgenre deep dive is DISGUISES! Let me know your favourite sci fi and fantasy books / games / movies / comics / shows that make interesting or good use of disguises!

The icon of the podcast, realms unknown.

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