Parenting // My Neighbour Totoro // Raised By Wolves

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!Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our showsSupport Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber thebuglepodcast.com/donateHelp your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate storeExplore the list of all books, games, films and TV series below.Episode 15In 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 bookAlice Fraser - A Passion for PassionChris' podcastMildly InformedNewsFILM Predator: BadlandsFILM: SinnersWhat have you been into?THEATRE (/FILM) My Neighbour TotoroA Drop of Corruption - Robert Jackson BennettThe Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa CarusoTV ParadiseSub-genre deep dive: parentingTV Raised by WolvesMANGA Lone Wolf and Cub - writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki KojimaTV Sweet ToothHeir to Sevenwaters - Juliet MarillierGRAPHIC NOVEL SagaFILM Beasts of the Southern WildGAME God of WarTehanu - Ursula Le GuinBroken Earth trilogy - N K JemisinThe Road - Cormac McCarthyThud - Terry PratchettThe mines of urrrghCOMIC - Phantom🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment!🦋 Follow us on Bluesky!Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Chris Skinner.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.