Sinners // Experiments in Form // Guards! Guards!

Host Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening) bring you episode 18 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations! This week, we're looking at experiments in form! Episode 18 This week's news features the Highlander remake moving to Amazon, Sinners continuing to tear up the box office, and the sad introduction of AI-narrated audiobooks. Hear what Alice and Tom have been enjoying recently, which tropes they love or hate, then take a deep dive with them into early sci-fi and fantasy, and hear the things that they used to love but now make them feel a bit urrrgh. Host book Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion News FILM Highlander remake FILM Sinners What have you been into? FILM Sinners The Blacktongue Thief - Christopher Buehlman The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Trope on a rope Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett Sub-genre deep dive: experiments in form The Book of Good Times - Hank Green The Ship of Theseus - VM Straka This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone SCP-3008 Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Subcutanean - Aaron Reed PODCAST - The Last Post PODCAST - Revolutions WEBCOMIC - xkcd WEBCOMIC - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal PODCAST Beef and Dairy Network PODCAST Welcome to Night Vale Convince Me The Rest of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness Redshirts - John Scalzi The mines of urrrgh FILM Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom FILM Wall-E Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our shows Support Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber https://thebuglepodcast.com/donate Help your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate store 🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment! 🦋 Follow us on Bluesky! Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan. 📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at [email protected] 🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more!