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WMU: Averoigne Cycle | Philip Rice

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · 14d

WMU?!? is on hiatus until October 8th, but there's an unreleased episode available on our Patreons: www.patreon.com/posts/wmu-av...

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · 14d

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What Mad Universe?!? Chapter One Hundred and Thirty-Two: The Kingdom of the Sorceror! | Adam Prosser

What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · 16d

WMU?!? will be taking a brief hiatus resulting from Adam getting married--we'll return October 8th! There are more unreleased episodes at our Patreons, as usual: www.patreon.com/posts/139519...

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S5E130 -Chapter One Hundred and Thirty: The Power Of God In The Great Bear!

What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Aug 29

In case you missed it! You could be LAME and worship some diety of justice and compassion, or you could be METAL and worship a GIANT DAMN BEAR, like the heroes (?) of Richard Adams' SHARDIK: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/c33b...

On SHARDIK, by Richard Adams

S5E130 -Chapter One Hundred and Thirty: The Power Of God In The Great Bear!

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Aug 27

Pictured: Richard Adams, author of Shardik

Richard Adams (Actually Stephen Colbert warning the world about Bears)

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Aug 27

The greatest threat to an ancient civilization? BEARS. At least, that's the argument of Richard Adams' SHARDIK, tackled on today's episode of What Mad Universe?!? what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/c33b...

On SHARDIK, by Richard Adams

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Aug 20

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Aug 20

Subscribe to hear this upcoming episode of What Mad Universe?!?, about Richard Adams, the bunny writer, stretching to write about bears instead, in Shardik: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/65c0...

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Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Nine: The 13th Witch!

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Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sheridan le Fanu published his vampire novella 'Carmilla' in a magazine called 'The Dark Blue' between 1871 and 1872. I don't think I've ever seen a bound volume of The Dark Blue until today...and it's BEAUTIFUL! 💙
#c19th #vampires

two bound volumes of The Dark Blue from 1871-2. They are beautiful, with gold foil gothic lettering and - unsurprisingly - a vivid dark blue cloth cover.

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Aug 13

Our latest What Mad Universe?!? continues our (well, mostly Philip's) look into the connected horny supernatural universe of Anne Rice with the Mayfair Witches series, and oh man, this one has ALL the trigger warnings: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/ca84...

On THE MAYFAIR WITCHES series by Anne Rice

S5E128 -Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Eight: The Demon-Haunted World!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 11

In science fiction, so much of what is "classic" was essentially written for one man: John W. Campbell, the editor of the pre-eminent US SF magazine. Even the stuff published elsewhere, because it was often sent to him first. Think on what it means to have a whole genre filtered through one dude.

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jul 30

A new What Mad Universe?!? is here, on Tanith Lee's excellent Flat Earth series, a series of dark fables about a demon who ends up saving humanity: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/fdd3...

On NIGHT'S MASTER and the Flat Earth series by Tanith Lee

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jul 23

New What Mad Universe?!? coming next week, on Tanith Lee's Flat Earth series: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/9a42...

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S5E127 -Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Seven: Hail to the Chief!

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Kly (𝔐egalith) @klyart.bsky.social · Jul 22

"I'M A FREAK OF THE UNIVERSE."

Gully Foyle from The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jul 16

And now, a look at a science fiction book that might not even be science fiction, either now or at the time it was published: Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, a speculative look from 1933 at what it might look like if fascism came to the US:

On IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis

WMU: The 13th Witch! | Philip Rice

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jul 9

A new What Mad Universe?!? episode, on Sinclair Lewis's IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!, drops Wednesday of next week, but you can listen to it right now--along with several unreleased episodes--by subscribing to our Patreons!

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En Sabah Neurodivergent @spearhafoc.bsky.social · Jul 7

The Da Vinci Code largely lifted its twist from a "non-fiction" book called The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. The writers of that book tried to sue Dan Brown but the judge threw it out, pointing out that they can't claim it's real history and also a copyrightable story.

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jul 6

A new WMU?!? episode is up for Patreons subscribers only, on Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches series. You can listen to it at Philip's Patreon, here: www.patreon.com/posts/wmu-13...

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What Mad Universe?!? Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Nine: The 13th Witch! | Adam Prosser

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · Jul 6

I dunno man, the whole "uh...we need to end space exploration and use that money to feed the hungry" argument drives me nuts because I'm pretty sure we could easily afford both if we didn't spend more than the next dozen countries combined on army shit that doesn't work.

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jul 5

A new episode of WMU?!? is up for Patreon subscribers only, on Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches books (ALL the content warnings on this one). You can listen on Adam's Patreon here: www.patreon.com/posts/what-m...

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S5E126 -Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Six: Cruel and Unusual Geography!

What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jul 2

As the world spins round (in whatever direction) we return once again to our ongoing series looking at Terry Pratchett's Discworld books with guest @ingforart.bsky.social ! This time it's all about Rhincewind, Unseen University, and the rules of magic: what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/0a9e...

On the Rhincewind and Wizards books of DISCWORLD, by Terry Pratchett

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jun 27

Today's Classic Cover is for Robert Zelazny's Lord of Light, illustrated by Howard Bernstein. Bernstein wasn't a regular SFF cover artist, and most of his work was on album covers

You can read more about his art here! www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2...

The cover for Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jun 26

A new episode of What Mad Universe?!? (another in our Discworld series with @ingforart.bsky.social ) will be publicly available next week, but you can listen to it--and multiple other unreleased episodes--right now by subscribing to our Patreons! what-mad-universe.pinecast.co/episode/0c3f...

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What Mad Universe?!? Podcast @whatmaduniverse.bsky.social · Jun 21

And here's Adam's!

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