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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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S1E9 -Chapter Nine: Death of the Author!

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2019/01/21

The latest chapter delves into the strange case of Venus On The Half-Shell, the book-within-a book with three authors, one of whom is purely fictional. An intergalactic satire that seems to have inspired Douglas Adams and others, this oddball book has been mostly forgotten, even though it lies at the intersection of at least two major literary careers... 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

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Chapter 9 Promo

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2019/01/14

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 Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick

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S1E8 -Chapter Eight: Ungentlemanly Warfare!

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2019/01/07

You know his name. Nobody does it better. The man on her majesty's secret service, with a license to kill, the spy who loved every woman from here to Russia (with love). ...Octopussy? Actually it's Bond, James Bond, as we take a break from the obscure stuff to look at Ian Fleming's original 12 novels and 2 collections of short stories and try to figure out why they've left such a lasting mark on pop culture. He may be a bastard...but he's our bastard. Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon Adam's

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Chapter 8 Promo

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2018/12/31

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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S1E7 -Chapter Seven: Conquest of the Monkey King!

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2018/12/24

Jules Verne: writer of 20,000 Leagues Beneath The Sea and Around The World in 80 Days. One of the fathers of science fiction, author of over 60 novels, the second most frequently translated author after William Shakespeare, and a massive influence on the 20th Century. But no, this show isn't about him. Instead, it's about another, altogether forgotten book from Verne's time, The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul, a work that also prefigures modern culture in being a work of fanfiction based on

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Chapter 7 Promo

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2018/12/17

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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S1E6 -Chapter Six: Prince of Ruins!

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2018/12/10

"It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair which flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody, and from the loose sleeves of his yellow gown emerge two slender hands, also the colour of bone.” One of the strangest and most influential pulp heroes of the 20th century, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone has impacted not just literature but movies, animation, games, music, and even the practice of

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Chapter 6 Promo

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2018/12/03

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 Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick

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S1E5 -Chapter Five: I Teach You The Superman!

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2018/11/26

The man of tomorrow, the ubermensch. The perfection of the human form into something godlike, beyond mere mortality. Since the Enlightenment this dream has taken the place of the myth of the demigod or chosen one...and eventually, it saw its realization in the superhero genre. But before Clark Kent ever stepped into a phone booth, there was a story that gave rise to the superhero, and turned it on its head. In this chapter we look at Philip Wylie's Gladiator, a book that's at once ground zero for

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S1E4 -Chapter Four: Who Fears The Devil?

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2018/11/12

Strange things haunt the mountains. Up these hills and down these hollows walks a man with a silver-stringed guitar, singin' the old songs, and doing what justice he can in a frightening world. In this episode we look at the "Silver John" stories by Manly Wade Wellman, about a humble rover who battles the evils of the backwoods with music in his heart... Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's

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S1E3 -Chapter Three: Vampire City!

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2018/10/29

The dead who walk, the drinkers of blood, the shunners of daylight, the ultimate monster--vampires! They've lurked and slithered around the dark edges of popular fiction for over two centuries. And the idea of what exactly a vampire is has shifted shape more than the creatures themselves... In this episode, Phil digs up (heee hee heeeee!) a very strange 19th century French novel, one that embodies and intersects with many trends in pulp and genre fiction of the time, yet whose concept of the

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S1E2 -Chapter Two: Exile of Atlantis!

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2018/10/15

Born a savage in a primordial country...risen to become king of an antediluvian empire...a warrior king battling against wizards, monsters, and the corruption of civilization. No, it's not who you're thinking of! In this episode we pour over the tales of Robert E. Howard's other barbarian hero, Kull the Conqueror, and consider the twin tropes of lost prehistoric realms and savage barbarian heroes. Producer/Engineer: Alex Ross Never Sleeps Network Theme song by Jack Feerick.

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S1E1 -Chapter One: The Adventure Begins!

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2018/10/01

Adventure! Excitement! Lurid chills and thoughtful thrills! The history of genre is a weird and slippery one that ranges from trash to highbrow art (and neither is always in the place you’d expect to find it!) WHAT MAD UNIVERSE?!? is a podcast where Adam Prosser and Philip Rice, two “informed novices”, sit down and try to trace the threads of history through SF and fantasy, pinpointing the possible origins of familiar tropes and flagging firsts in books both classic and obscure. This “prologue”

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