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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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S1E20 -Chapter Twenty: Lone Star Planet!

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2019/06/24

Get your titanium spurs on and saddle-up your starships, buckaroos, 'cuz it's time to take our first dip into the wild wild world of space westerns! Seems like every generation has its own version of "cosmic cowboys", but there was a time when the genre was an outright cliche. We look at a book from this era, H. Beam Piper and J. Joseph McGuire's A PLANET FOR TEXANS, aka LONE STAR PLANET, which it turns out, isn't two genres mashed into one...it's three! Let's get this wagon train (to the stars) a

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Chapter 20 Promo

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2019/06/17

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon Phil's Twitter Adam'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

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S1E19 -Chapter Nineteen: When Gods Collide!

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2019/06/10

Since countries other than the US and the UK produce genre fiction too, this week we veer in a new direction to take a look at a famous work of Japanese Sci-Fi, "10 Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights", by Ryu Mitsuse. Could this book be a seminal influence on Japanese animation? To help us decide we've got guest star Ing--co-host of my other podcast, Destroy All Clickbait--who knows way more about that stuff than we do. Join us as two of mankind's greatest religious figures engage in a

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Chapter 19 Promo

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2019/06/03

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Special Thanks: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick

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S1E18 -Chapter Eighteen: The Eye In The Pyramid! (The...

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2019/05/27

All is revealed as we press on into the second half of our look at Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus Trilogy. Know, O patient listener, that you have passed the threshold into the inner chamber of wisdom, and now we will present to you the REAL truth of what it all means. Or at least we'll take a look at the impact the book has had on pop culture, as well as some of the political and cultural ramifications of this paranoid Discordian manifesto. Support us on Patreon and listen to

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S1E17 -Chapter Seventeen: The Eye In The Pyramid!...

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2019/05/13

This is a big one, man. I mean it's for real, this is like the one that explains EVERYTHING, like how it's all connected, you picking up what I'm putting down? World governments, secret technologies, the lost continent of Atlantis, drug culture, the significance of the number 5, the whole big master plan to immanentize the eschaton--it's all here, man. It's all connected, and it all makes sense, you dig? But better not listen to this in public--they're listening... This time around Phil and I are

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Chapter 17 Promo

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2019/05/08

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Theme song by Jack Feerick Special thanks to Alex Ross

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S1E16 -Chapter Sixteen: Old Habits Die Hard!

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2019/04/29

Terrorists have seized the building! The police are clueless! People are in danger! Only one man can save the day! That man is...Joe Leland. It's explosive action and political turmoil in this episode of WHAT MAD UNIVERSE?!? as we take a look at NOTHING LASTS FOREVER, the book that was adapted (loosely) into the movie DIE HARD. What, you didn't think 80s action movies were literary? Theme song by Jack Feerick Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network

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S1E15 -Chapter Fifteen: The Coming Race!

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2019/04/15

There's an energy coming from the underground...it's the strange and wonderful power known as Vril, as documented in the book Vril: A Story of the Coming Race by the infamous Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Bulwer-Lytton's left huge mark on pop culture, and in this episode we sit down with guest Jess Nevins to see whether his reputation doesn't deserve a bit of rehabilitation... Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What

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Chapter 15 Promo

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2019/04/09

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick

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S1E14 -Chapter Fourteen: Robots of the World, Unite!

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2019/04/01

Automation! The wave of the future! Imagine a world of tireless, artificial workers, uncomplainingly catering to your whims and doing all your hard labour! In 1920, Karol Capek imagined such a world in his play R.U.R. and created the word "Robot" in the process. He also helped instill one of the great neuroses of 20th century SF: the robot rebellion. Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS

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Chapter 14 Promo

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2019/03/27

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick

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S1E13 -Chapter Thirteen: The Adventures of the Little...

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2019/03/18

This is probably the weirdest and most obscure book series we've tackled for What Mad Universe?!?., though it's come back into prominence for some reason. It's The Adventures of Little Baron Trump, by Ingersoll Lockwood, author of "The Last President" Cough. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross

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Chapter 13 Promo

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2019/03/11

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon Phil's Twitter Adam's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick

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S1E12 -Chapter Twelve: All The Gods Save One!

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2019/03/04

In the lost lands of the central sea, a place beyond time, perhaps even existing only in dreams, there is a place where the people have a god they do not worship, lest his waking end the world. Their faith was described in two books and several stories written at the turn of the century by an Irish nobleman that have left a deep mark on the modern fantasy genre, even though he remains obscure outside of genre circles. But Lord Dunsany is likely "your favourite fantasy author's favourite fantasy

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Chapter 12 Promo

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2019/02/26

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick

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Chapter Eleven: Empire of Crime!

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2019/02/18

You're getting sleepy...very sleepy... No, stay alert! A great criminal mastermind is at large, and anyone could fall under his spell. His name is Dr. Mabuse, scientist, mad genius, would-be conqueror, and his eyes and words compel men to do his bidding. Even death doesn't seem to stop him. And as a force of evil arising in Germany in the 1920s, his presence resonates with events to come in ways that are still chilling, nearly a century later... Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week

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Chapter 11 Promo

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2019/02/11

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon Phil's Twitter Adam's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick

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S1E10 -Chapter Ten: Planet of Paradox!

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2019/02/04

Mars may be a lifeless rock in the real world, but it's long been teeming with life in fiction. Ever since astronomers claimed to have seen canals on Mars in the late 19th century, SF writers have been imagining exotic creatures, lost civilizations, and swashbuckling adventures on the red planet. One of the most notable and iconic of the martian sagas is A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs and its various sequels, which was one of the first pulp stories to combine swashbuckling fantasy with

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Chapter 10 Promo

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2019/01/29

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon Adam's Twitter Phil's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad Universe RSS Feed Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick

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