Host Alice Fraser and author Patrick Lenton bring you episode 19 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for speculative fiction tropes, news and recommendations!

This week, we're looking at gender!

Episode 19

This week's news features The Wheel of Time getting cancelled, Lilo and Stitch doing surprisingly well at the box office, and a fantasy author caught using AI to write in her own style!

Hear what Alice and Patrick 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 books

Alice Fraser - A Passion for Passion

Patrick Lenton - In Spite of You

News

TV The Wheel of Time

FILM Lilo and Stitch

What have you been into?

Scholomance Trilogy - Naomi Novik

Blood over Bright Haven - M.L. Wang

TV Andor

Trope on a rope

TV Charmed

Sub-genre deep dive: gender

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan

TV Rings of Power

TV Xena: Warrior Princess

Ethan of Athos - Lois McMaster Bujold

The Honorverse - David Weber

TV Deep Space Nine

Terry Pratchett Discworld series

Lady’s Knight - Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman

The mines of urrrgh

Malazan Book of the Fallen - Steven Erikson

Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

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