Chris and Alice tell the story of their experiences around Alice's hit book A Passion For Passion. A book that has generated over £50,000 in sales (maybe much more), yet we have barely seen a Penny. We tell the story of the publishers Unbound and Boundless who collapsed in debt, having failed to deliver for us (and a bunch of other authors).

BUT, we won't give up. We'll fight for our money, and we have released it, in full as an Audiobook, available now... https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/

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Tom Neenan joins Alice Fraser this week for another sci-fi and fantasy packed episode of Realms Unknown!

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NEWS

TV Doctor Who

PLAY Amadeus

GAME Fortnite

TV The Boys

TV Peacemaker

FILM A Nightmare On Elm Street

FILM Longlegs

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING?

Alien:Earth

MINES OF UURGH

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

PLAY Harry Potter & The Cursed Child

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - Post-colonial African sci fi and fantasy meeting Western Anglosphere markets

TV Doctor Who - The Story and the Engine

Rosewater - Tade Thompson (from the Wormwood trilogy)

Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James

FILM District 9

FILM Elysium

FILM Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae

Out There Screaming - Jordan Peele

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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the brilliant Eleanor Morton!

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Reading list to follow!

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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the satisfyingly and unrelentingly competent Tom Neenan! (The Mash Report, The Hauntening)

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NEWS

TV Severance

TV Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

FILM The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

FILM Dune

TV Twisted Metal

FILM The Creator

TV Outlander: Blood of My Blood

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

TV Only Murders In The Building

The Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Haroun and the Sea of Stories - Salman Rushdie

TROPE ON A ROPE

Something has happened here…

Straight to camera blogging as disasters unfold

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - competence

The Martian - Andy Weir

FILM The Martian

FILM All Is Lost

FILM Die Hard

FILM The Mechanic

The Expanse series - James S. A. Corey

TV The Expanse

FILMS The Bourne franchise

Discworld series - Terry Pratchett

FILM Snatch

TV Doctor Who - Midnight episode

TV Columbo

TV Poirot

TV Jonathan Creek

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch

MINES OF EURGH

FILM Ready Player One

Cautionary Tales for Children - Hilaire Belloc

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Joining Alice Fraser this week is Realms Unknown firm favourite Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).

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NEWS

FILM Star Wars: Starfighter

FILM K-Pop Demon Hunters

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN INTO?

Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix

Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix

My Best Friend’s Exorcism - Grady Hendrix

Clockwork Boys - T. Kingfisher

The Wonder Engine - T. Kingfisher

TROPE ON A ROPE

FILM Mulan

Game of Thrones - George RR Martin

DEEP DIVE - the paladin

Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold

FILM Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

TV Doctor Who - Revelation of the Daleks

COMIC Die - Kieron Gillen

MINES OF URRGH

Rapunzel

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Joining Alice Fraser this week is the mighty Tom Neenan (The Mash Report, The Hauntening).

The subgenre deep dive this week looks at bodies / good use of embodiment - such as body swapping in Altered Carbon or Cronenbergian body horror. Tom espouses that 2025 has seen the greatest summer for cinematic horror in recent memory, discusses the trope of befuzzled kings leaving a trail of chaos in their wake, and feels a bit eurrgh about campery being shorthand for villainy.

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NEWS

FILM Red Sonja

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

FILM 28 Years Later

FILM Bring Her Back

FILM Weapons

FILM Together

Swordheart - T Kingfisher

TROPE ON A ROPE

Befuzzled kings and the chaos they leave in their wake

Looking in the mirror, pulling at something and creating a Cronenbergian horror

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - bodies

FILM Looper

FILM Together

TV Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy

TV Doctor Who - Into The Dalek

FILM Tusk

PODCAST Smodcast

Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis

Ghost In The Shell

Dune - Frank Herbert

TV Alien: Earth

FILM Ex Machina

MINES OF EURRGH

Campery to mean villainy

FILM Jupiter Ascending

TV Twilight

FILM The Little Mermaid

FILM The Lion King

FILM Robin Hood

FILM The Fifth Element

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Alice Fraser is joined this week by Jen Prokop from the Fated Mates romance podcast, so expect a lot of romance recommendations and tropes!

The subgenre deep dive looks into interesting uses of POV, and Jen is uncomfortable with the increasing use of violence in romance books but enjoyed the romance elements in recent films Superman and Sinners.

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NEWS

Who Is Elara Voss?

FILM Highlander

TV Outlander

Epic Games secures legal win against Google

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

Superman

Sinners

TROPE ON A ROPE

Jack Reacher series - Lee Child

The Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - single POV

The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison

Not Your Sidekick - C.B. Lee

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

The Baby Dragon Cafe - A.T. Qureshi

The Baby Dragon Bakery - A.T. Qureshi

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

MINES OF EURRGH

Girls and their dragons

Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

Jack West Jr series - Matthew Reilly

American Gods - Neil Gaiman

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