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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.
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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).
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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!

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December 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Happy December 1st 🎄
following a star ✅
getting pregnant from a non terrestrial life form ✅
a virgin mother ✅
in space nobody can hear you scream = silent night

alien is a nativity story
me watching Alien rn
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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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”!
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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?
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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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)
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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@alicefraser.bsky.social what is better than reading ‘A Passion for Passion’

Listening to ‘A Passion for Passion’.

Thank you.
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
"And a new novel..."
I want The Thorny (Horny? I couldn’t hear properly with all the sexy blood rushing in my ears) Crown is Rising Stars of Night King Part 2 of 7 in my eyes and ears!
Hilarious.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"And a new novel is out by self-published romantasy maven and online best seller D'Ancey LaGuarde..."

✍️
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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!
November 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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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
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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
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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.
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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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!
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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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
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October 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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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!
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Does listening to an audiobook class as reading?

Dive in with your thoughts!

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Does listening to an audiobook class as reading? The debate FINALLY settled!
YouTube video by The Bugle
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October 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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!?
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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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
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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
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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
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October 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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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.
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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
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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!
September 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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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!!!
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Competence // Star Trek // Outlander | Realms Unknown
With Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan
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September 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM