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What Mad Universe?!?

Adam Prosser and Philip Rice

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...all

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Chapter 45 Promo

What Mad Universe?!? ·

2020/08/24

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S2E44 -Chapter Forty-Four: Shadow of the Colossus!

What Mad Universe?!? ·

2020/08/17

A very creepy evening to you all, my children, and welcome to the creepy castle for another installment of What Mad Universe?!? This time we're looking at The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, the originator of the gothic novel and, thus, most of the enduring horror and supernatural tropes of the last 250 years. Grab a candlabra, descend the spiral staircase to the cellar, and don't mind the dancing skeletons... Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's

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Episode 44 Promo

What Mad Universe?!? ·

2020/08/10

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S2E43 -Chapter Forty-Three: Death From Above!

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2020/08/03

Ten-Hut, about face, and other such military jazz! This latest episode of What Mad Universe?!? takes a martial bent as we delve into the seminal SF novel Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, loved and loathed in equal measure and a major political flashpoint as well as a key intersection point for post-WWII SF. Also they made a movie you might have heard of. Guest Andrew Hickey helps us find a more nuanced take on a book, and an author, that inspires extremes of opinion... Support us on Patreon

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Episode 43 Promo

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2020/07/27

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S2E42 -Chapter Forty-Two: The Naked Stars!

What Mad Universe?!? ·

2020/07/20

It's time once again to take a look at spinoff novelizations, and this time we're joined by Trekspert Dylan Roth to look at the era before the movies, before the Next Generation, when Star Trek was a ragtag multimedia conglomeration held together by fan obsession. The franchise took all kinds of strange and non-canonical turns in those dark days, and one of the biggest ones was The Final Reflection, a novel by celebrated SF author John M. Ford that paints a very different view of Star Trek and

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Episode 42 Promo

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2020/07/13

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S2E41 -Chapter Forty-One: A Blink Of The Cosmic Eye!

What Mad Universe?!? ·

2020/07/06

Are we living at the end of history? Not according to Olaf Stapledon, who conceived of 2 billion years of future history to come in his book Last and First Men. When we talk about the sweeping sprawl of all that could yet be, this is what we're talking about! Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS

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S2E40 -Chapter Forty: The Insect Walks Among Us!

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2020/06/22

We're all bugging out a bit as the quarantine stretches on, so here's a Kafkaesque new What Mad Universe on Spiridon The Mute, an obscure, bizarre story by a "protege" (it's complicated) of Jules Verne. If you've ever wondered if a giant ant could become a successful surgeon, now's your chance to find out! Also, why were you wondering that. Are you ill. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's

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S2E39 -Chapter Thirty-Nine: Invade! Damage! Occupy!

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2020/06/09

This week's What Mad Universe?!? is so bizarre it BROKE REALITY ITSELF!!! (As in, it wasn't ready early for Patreon subscribers. Subscribe at the links below, though, and you'll hear the complete and unexpurgated full-length version of the show, the one the Nova Mob doesn't want you to hear!) At any rate, this week we tackle a subject that I've been dying to delve into for a while but that I knew would be a bit of an odd fit: William S. Burroughs "Nova Trilogy" of cut-up books. Aggressively

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S2E38 -Chapter Thirty-Eight: An Ever-Expanding Universe!

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2020/05/25

Because the internet is clearly starved for more Star Wars content (#starwars), this latest chapter of What Mad Universe is about Star Wars! It's the center of the pop cultural solar system, but orbiting around the red giant that is the movies are dozens of tie-in novels, comics, video games, TV shows and all kinds of other spinoffs. Some of these have managed to make their own dent in the popular consciousness, and some of them have been forgotten, or even deliberately stricken from the record. It

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S2E37 -Chapter Thirty-Seven: Wanted on Three Planets!

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2020/05/11

It's a space western! It's a cosmic horror tale! It's a combination space western/cosmic horror tale! The Northwest Smith series by C. L. Moore, one of American pulp's most prominent female authors, is almost too many genres combined into one, and that's BEFORE the fantasy swordmaiden shows up for a crossover! Somehow, though, it works, and we'll delve into them in this installment. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on

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2020/05/05

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's PatreonWhat Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's TwitterWhat Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS FeedEngineer/Producer: Alex RossTheme song by Jack FeerickThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S2E36 -Chapter Thirty-Six: Darkness His Accomplice!

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2020/04/27

In this newest episode of WMU?!? we take a look at one of Philip's Bete Noirs (literally), a series of French pulp novels from before WWI about adventurer-hero Leo St. Clair, the Nyctalope, and his Sci-Fi adventures. Written with all the care and elegance of a 7th grader with an essay due the next morning, these stories nevertheless reflect a lot of the classic pulp tropes and may even be a stage in the development of the superhero. Somewhere, Riddick is taking notes (in the dark)...Support us on

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2020/04/23

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S2E35 -Chapter Thirty-Five: Tall Tales and Lusty...

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2020/04/13

Let's go back, back, to a time when giants walked the Earth...probably doing something filthy. In this episode of What Mad Universe?!? we look at the oldest story yet to be featured on this podcast, a classic of literature contemporary with Don Quixote and Shakespeare, Francois Rabelais' novels about the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel. Lots and LOTS of urination jokes follow. The French, they're classy, right? Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's

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2020/04/06

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S2E34 -Chapter Thirty-Four: A Year From Wednesday!

What Mad Universe?!? ·

2020/03/30

The news is weird and harsh these days, so why not escape with us to the enchanted land of Poictesme, setting for works of James Branch Cabell's satirical fantasy Jurgen. Though almost forgotten these days, Cabell was very popular for a while in the 1920s, causing a minor scandal with his "indecent" prose, and his work shows that fantasy took very different forms before the likes of J. R. R. Tolkien came along. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's

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2020/03/23

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S2E33 -Chapter Thirty-Three: The Man Who Saw The Future!

What Mad Universe?!? ·

2020/03/16

A new era begins, with a new season of What Mad Universe?!? To kick this year's offerings off, we take a look at one of the foundational (ha ha) texts of science fiction, Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. Empires will fall, mutants will rise, and psychology will be reduced to mathematical functions, somehow... Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What

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