Action! Excitement! Horror! Romance! Thrills and Chills! Swords and Sorcery! Rockets and Rayguns! Hosts Adam Prosser and Philip Rice take a journey through the history of SF, Fantasy, horror, and pulp fiction. Every 2 weeks one of us, alternating back and forth, selects a book or book series from the late 18th century up to the present to look back on, discuss, and examine. Some of them have left an indelible mark on pop culture; some of them are forgotten echoes of what might have been...al ...
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It’s 12:30 p.m. You wake up, and at 1:30 p.m. you roll out of bed and turn on the radio, then open your local newspaper to check the HELP WANTED adverts. During breakfast, you turn on the television to catch a few minutes of the 24-hour news shows. School shootings. Higher taxes. Immigrants being treated badly. The price of milk has risen considerably. You turn it off quickly, filled with a sense of dread after seeing the latest disappointments the human race has to offer you. Shortly therea ...
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S4E120 -Chapter One Hundred and Twenty: Stand and Deliver!
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Episode Notes Historical adventures with swashbuckling, alternate identities, and criminals with a heart of gold seem to have been inescapable in early 20th century pulp, and Georgette Heyer's "The Masqueraders" is a fine example of the form. This one adds another common trope: cross-dressing! Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week ear…
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S4E119 -Chapter One Hundred and Nineteen: Red Moonrise!
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We've talked before about how plainly world events have informed the subtext (and sometimes the regular-text) of classic SF, and The Moon Maid, a late-career offering from Edgar Rice Burroughs, proves that in spades. The politics that engulfed the world in the mid-1920s are on full display here in this seemingly escapist pulp fantasy, in which thin…
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S4E118 -Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen: The Wonder Children!
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Continuing from last week's theme of "advanced mutants walk amongst us", we're looking at an entirely different take on a similar premise, one that's entirely more sympathetic to the supposedly non-human subjects. In Wilmar Shiras' "Children of the Atom", the super-intelligent kids are more benign...mostly. Though the perils of raising kids who mig…
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S4E117 -Chapter One Hundred and Seventeen: The Life of the Mind!
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They're everywhere! They're better than you! They can tinker with your brain! They'll inherit the Earth! And trying to stop them makes you into a monster! It's a common assortment of tropes from SF, with a subtext touching on everything from a Freudian fear of your children to even darker, frequently racist conspiracy theories. Slan, by A. E. Van V…
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S4E116 -Chapter One Hundred and Sixteen: Where Everybody Knows Your Name!
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Sometimes you just want to take a break from it all and find solace in some booze...and more importantly, good company. Of course, it doesn't help if your watering hole is constantly being invaded by aliens, vampires, talking dogs, and fairies...or does it? It certainly keeps things interesting. Spider Robinson's long-running Callahan's Place serie…
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S4E115 -Chapter One Hundred and Fifteen: Whot's All This Then?
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We're back for another look at Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, this time focusing on The Watch series. It's a social satire and police procedural in a fantasy setting, which means it has dragons, dwarves, trolls, and police who actually serve the public trust...you know, a fantasy. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam…
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S4E114 -Chapter One Hundred and Fourteen: A Fool And His Money!
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It's interesting to consider which characters fall into obscurity and which remain relevant. Johnston McCulley's most famous creation, Zorro, is of course still a household word. His other creations, Thubway Tham and The Crimson Clown, have been completely forgotten, even though they were nearly as popular in their day. Both thieves, albeit of two …
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S4E113 -Chapter One Hundred and Thirteen: Get a Life!
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Fandom! The word sends chills up the spine of anyone who's spent any time in Fantasy and Science Fiction spaces...for a pretty wide variety of reasons. But what if fandom turns...to murder? Actually, that seems pretty plausible. Sharyn McCrumb explored this very idea in the murder mystery Bimbos of the Death Sun (published by TSR!) and we're joined…
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S4E112 -Chapter One Hundred and Twelve: Sharna Pax and Get the Poal!
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Langwitch, its syurly a confuzement! Whut wud Inlish luk liek inna thousand yeers? These are the questions asked by Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban, a post-apocalyptic meditation on culture, storytelling, religion, and language. It's a tricky read but a fulfilling one. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's PatreonPh…
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S4E111 -Chapter One Hundred and Eleven: In Cold Blood!
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This is the story of Edwardian-era European explorers traveling to the north pole in an airship, only to find a strange land unknown to mankind, and populated by an alien yet advanced race of intelligent non-human beings. The encounter holds up a mirror to western society, colonialism, and the dark side of human nature, and things go badly for the …
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S4E110 -Chapter One Hundred and Ten: Culture War!
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In the best of all possible worlds, this podcast would always be on time...but we're not there yet, are we. You know what comes close, though? The Culture, the star-spanning utopia depicted in Iain M. Banks's novels such as Consider Phlebas and The Player of Games. In this episode, Philip and I take a dive into the possibilities of benevolent godli…
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S4E109 -Chapter One Hundred and Nine: Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On!
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This week, wayfarers, we go WAY back, to 1666, and the first European work of feminist Science Fiction--in fact, one of the first works of Science Fiction as we know it--Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, a travelogue, pontification, and philosophical potboiler. Adam's PatreonPhil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on BlueskyWhat Mad Uni…
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S4E108 -Chapter One Hundred and Eight: The Maiden, The Mother, The Other One!
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We aten't dead! In fact we're back in 2024 for a new chapter in a series...a series within a series, you might say...on Terry Pratchett's Discworld! In this one we're joined by pal Ing to talk about the Granny Weatherwax books and witchcraft vs. wizardry. (Update: I'm really sorry, the wrong audio was uploaded for this. It should be fixed now.) Sup…
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Dan Zukovic: The Culture is Going Down On Itself (Still)
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"The camera has unbound daemonic Western imagination. Cinema is sexual showing, a pagan flaunting. Plot and dialogue are obsolete word-baggage. Cinema, the most eye-intense of genres, has restored pagan antiquity's cultic exhibitionism. Spectacle is a pagan cult of the eye." —Camille Paglia Dan Zukovic (c. 19??) is a North American writer/director,…
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Chapter One Hundred and Seven: The Harrowing of Hell!
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'Tis darkening days, fair ones, and as we approach the end of the year of our lord 2023, What Mad Universe?!? has been, we confess, erratic of late. But take heed! We return with a look at an obscure but excellent fantasy series from the early 20th century, the Neustrian Cycle by Leslile Barringer. Is it a lost tome, or the wellspring for much late…
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S4E106 -Chapter One Hundred and Six: The Soldier of Light!
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As we all know by now, the WWII period saw the blossoming of ASTOUNDING magazine, which set the pace for the so-called "Golden Age" of Science Fiction, launching the careers of storied names such as Asimov and Heinlein. They also hosted a short series of satirical space westerns about a near-immortal doctor and his staunch companion, the Ole Doc Me…
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S4E105 -Episode One Hundred and Five: The Cyclone Country!
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Swashbuckling adventures in far-flung lands to the east! Geopolitical intrigue! The manly code of the warrior! Dan Tyler Moore's The Terrible Game taps into several veins of pulp action that span several eras...as well as being the source material for one later, hilariously bad movie. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam&…
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"In the rarefied, underground world of experimental free improvisation, saxophonist Jack Wright is king." -Washington Post "The fight that seems so radical and virtuous meshes perfectly with the maintenance of the social order." - Jack Wright “Jack Wright is, and will always be, my scout leader.” - Dennis J. Palmer Described forty years ago as an "…
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S4E104 -Chapter One Hundred and Four: Knower of the Many Worlds!
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As Philip points out, if we had a nickel for every time we talked about a book where Buddha fights Jesus in a Sci-Fi setting, we'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right? The subject this time is Lord of Light, by Roger Zelazny, and the subject is actually Hinduism more than those other religions, as far-f…
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S4E103 -Chapter One Hundred and Three: Life on Mars!
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Sorry about the long delay there, folks, some real world chaos combined with a LOT of pages that had to be read for this episode led to an unplanned couple of week's break. We're back now, looking at Kim Stanley Robinsons' seminal trilogy, Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars, one of the most in-depth hard SF stories of the past few decades. But it's not …
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S4E102 -Chapter One Hundred and Two: One Thing After Another!
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We've talked about John W Campbell as an editor on this show a few times, which isn't surprising since he oversaw an entire era of 20th century SF. Now we dive in directly to his own best known writing, the novella Who Goes There?, the basis for John Carpenter's The Thing (as well as the 50s movie The Thing From Another World), and talk more about …
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S4E101 -Chapter One Hundred and One: Second Star To The Right, and Straight On Until Morning!
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The newest What Mad Universe?!? looks at one of the earliest progenitors of the space opera, a 19th century French obscurity that delves deeply into world-building, poetry, and, unfortunately, racism. It's STAR, OR, PSI CASSOPEIA by C. I. DeFontenay. We read it before it was cool! Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam'…
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S4E100 -Chapter One Hundred: Empire of Bronze!
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One hundred episodes! I'm not sure we ever believed it would happen, but it has, thanks to you, acolytes of adventure! A heartfelt tip of our space helmets to all of you, and we hope you enjoy this special 100th episode spectacular! And what better subject for this illustrious episode than a book that touches on both one of the most archetypal and …
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S4E99 -Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Boy Who Bought Old Earth!
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Cordwainer Smith isn't one of the more well-known names in Science Fiction, but his influence seems to have extended pretty far into the works of better known writers. In this episode we take a look at his Instrumentality series, one of the first examples of a SF writer crafting a recurring universe for his stories, and his bizarre novel Norstrilia…
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S4E98 -Chapter Ninety-EIght: To Catch a Thief!
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Apologies for the week delay (due to vacation). We're just a couple of no-goodniks, I guess, like the subject of this episode, about the galaxy's greatest criminal, Slippery Jim DeGriz, a guy so good at crime they put him in charge of catching all the other criminals. We explore the satirical (and long-running) romp that is the Stainless Steel Rat …
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S4E97 -Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Means Of Production!
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Greetings, comrades, and glory to the utopian future glimpsed in our scientifically perfected podcast! Today we tighten our focus onto a subject we've touched on a few times: communism, that spectre that's been haunting Science Fiction almost since the beginning, and the way it intersects with the real-world Soviet Union, in the form of Francis Spu…
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S4E96 -Chapter Ninety-Six: The Gospel of The Third Dimension!
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Here on What Mad Universe?!? we like to examine a subject from all angles, but this week we might be accused of flattening a complex topic. We're looking at Flatland, a 19th century oddity that's resonated with nerds for over a century with its consideration of some big ideas implied by math and science. Try not to damage your brain too badly! Supp…
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S4E95 -Chapter Ninety-Five: The Void Which Binds!
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Season Four is here, acolytes of Adventure! We start things off with an epic saga of an episode on the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, featuring special guest star Andre Gordon. It's a sweeping four-book space opera about quests, artificial intelligence, time travel, god and iconic robots with a lot of pointy bits, and appropriately enough it's a s…
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This final episode was available to our Patreon sponsors last year, we've now made it available to everyone! We look at the origins of Red Sonja (or Sonya), a character who was created by Robert E. Howard...or was she? It's a little more complicated than that, as it turns out! Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreo…
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Minisode 2: Killing Machine From The Future!
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We're still on hiatus until May, but we're going to be making these minisodes we made as Patreon bonus content available one at a time until then! Enjoy! Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's PatreonPhil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on TwitterPhil's TwitterAdam's Twitter What Mad Universe on FacebookWhat Mad Universe o…
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We're still on hiatus until May, but we're going to be making these minisodes we made as Patreon bonus content available one at a time until then! Enjoy! Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's PatreonPhil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on TwitterPhil's TwitterAdam's Twitter What Mad Universe on FacebookWhat Mad Universe o…
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S3E94 -Chapter Ninety-Four: The Queen of the Underworld!
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And so the season of What Mad Universe?!? comes to a close...the storm rages outside, the suspects have been brought together in the parlor, and we prepare to name the killer. Was it...our special guest Ing?!? Probably not, but he'll join us for a wide ranging conversation about Edogawa Rampo's novel The Black Lizard, starring the Japanese Sherlock…
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GENESIS AND BEYOND: The Boyd Rice Christmas/Hanukkah Extravaganza
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GENESIS AND BEYOND: The Boyd Rice Christmas/Hanukkah Extravaganza “Boyd Rice is a black pimp.” —Charles Manson “Boyd Rice was my mentor." —Marilyn Manson “Boyd is an iconoclast!” —Anton LaVey, Church of Satan “Boyd Rice could be the next John F. Kennedy or Jesus Christ.” —Kim Fowley “(Boyd Rice) is a bad influence.” —Der Spiegel Referred to by some…
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S3E93 -Chapter Ninety-Three: The Never-Ending Battle!
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War. War never changes. Everything else changes, though, especially when the war is being waged across millions of light-years, and, thanks to the relativistic effects of near-lightspeed travel, you're aging only a year or so while the rest of the galaxy jumps forward by centuries. This existential conundrum is pursued in The Forever War, by Joe Ha…
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Episode Notes Notes go here A slayer...a reaver...Dark haired...sullen eyed...gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth...hey, who are we talking about here? Not who you're thinking of! It's Imaro, by Charles Saunders, a response from an African-American writer to the works of fantasy writers like Robert E Howard. Saunders loved the brutal action an…
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S3E91 -Chapter Ninety-One: A Bite Of The Magic Mushroom!
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A deteriorating, violent world struck by a pandemic...humanity isolated from each other and unable to form social bonds...a rogue government agency accruing power to oppress the citizenry...but enough about current events! Ha ha! The latest episode of What Mad Universe?!? looks at Margaret St. Clair's The Sign of the Labrys, a genuinely strange but…
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S3E90 -Chapter Ninety: The Conquering Frequency!
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Radio! It's the most high-tech of high-tech gadgets, the wave of the future, the word on everyone's lips! At least it was in 1924, when it provided just the gimmick for a series of planetary romances by a polymath scientist and politician writing under the name Ralph Milne Farley. Radio can do EVERYTHING in these books, starting with transporting a…
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S3E89 -Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Invisible War!
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What Mad Universe?!? has been suffering some setbacks behind the scenes lately, brethren. Is it just bad luck, or could it be...Satan?!? Given that our latest episode tackles a staple of supernatural Christian fiction, all about the secret spiritual war between angels and demons going on all around us, maybe there are POWERFUL FORCES that don't wan…
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S3E88 -Chapter Eighty-Eight: Pax Aeronautica!
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Apologies for being away--Adam suffered a personal loss and then got hit by Covid. Clearly, this is the episode the universe doesn't want you to hear. But maybe another universe does? We'll find out when we look at Michael Moorcock's alternate-universe trilogy about the reality-displaced Oswald Bastable. These books are an even earlier bedrock of t…
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S3E87 -Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Once And Future King!
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In times of trouble, a podcast arises, reborn: that's us, and we're here to talk about K. W. Jeter's very odd novel Morlock Night, which really does have a claim to being the first novel to use the Steampunk moniker (but not necessarily the first Steampunk novel--it's complicated). Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's P…
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S3E86 -Chapter Eighty-Six: The Lady of the Flame!
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Gird your loins, acolytes of adventure, for a new What Mad Universe?!? that explores the origins of the classic fiery sword-maiden of pulp fame. C. L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry might be the first example of the trope...but as ever, it's a bit complicated. Fear not, we'll hash it out! You might also want to check out this bonus minisode we did on a sim…
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S3E85 -Chapter Eighty-Five: Electric Dreams!
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It's new! It's improved! It's the latest sensation! 4 out of 5 dentists agree, What Mad Universe?!? is the podcast that puts spring in your step, makes your whites whiter, and firms, lifts and separates! Our latest episode features guest Andre Gordon as we talk about UBIK, by Philip K. Dick, and try to figure out if it's about god, reality, or prod…
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John Trubee: Sardonic Bard & Experimental Landline Jester
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Leader of the music group The Ugly Janitors of America, John Trubee has given his life to entertain the unwashed masses by way of recorded music, prank phone calls, poems, cartoons, and evocative performances. Best known for creating the most famous song poem of all time, the 1984 novelty track "Peace & Love" (more commonly known as "A Blind Man’s …
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S3E84 -Chapter Eighty-Four: Out With The Old!
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Our newest episode looks at The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope, a 19th century work of SF by a writer who's not known for SF. It posits a future society where, once someone has gotten too old to be productive, they're shipped off to a farm upstate, where they can relax and enjoy their leisure time. For one year. Then they're executed. What a craz…
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S3E83 -Chapter Eighty-Three: The Twelve Hours Of The Night!
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Continuing our look at the origins of Steampunk, a genre that proves to be a lot harder to nail down than you might suspect, we move on to Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates. This is a historical fantasy, not SF, and it's technically not set in the Victorian era either. So why is it a pivotal steampunk novel? Well... Support us on Patreon and listen to t…
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S3E82 -Chapter Eighty-Two: The Pride of Bear Creek!
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What Mad Universe?!? takes another trip to the backwoods, and the writings of Robert E. Howard, with a look at the Breckenridge Elkins stories, a series of comical tales about a Hillbilly Hercules and the misadventures his lack of a brain stumbles him into. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's PatreonPhil's Patreon What…
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