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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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S4E101 -Chapter One Hundred and One: Second Star To...

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2023/08/30

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's Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Phil's Twitter Adam's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What

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S4E100 -Chapter One Hundred: Empire of Bronze!

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2023/08/16

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 influential pulp characters, AND the later mythological addition that created the basis for decades of nerdy recontextualizations! Yes, it's Doc Savage:

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S4E99 -Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Boy Who Bought Old...

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2023/08/02

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. It tackles the true gravest threat facing Earth in the future: rich Australians! Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early

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S4E98 -Chapter Ninety-EIght: To Catch a Thief!

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2023/07/12

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 by Harry Harrison. 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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S4E97 -Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Means Of Production!

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2023/06/21

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 Spufford's Red Plenty. It's an alternate-reality story about a nation that attempted to make science fiction of a sort a reality as well. But the Revolution

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S4E96 -Chapter Ninety-Six: The Gospel of The Third...

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2023/06/07

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

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S4E95 -Chapter Ninety-Five: The Void Which Binds!

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2023/05/24

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 special bonus-length edition! 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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Minisode 3: She-Devil With a Sword!

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2023/04/19

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 Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Phil's Twitter Adam's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What Mad

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Minisode 2: Killing Machine From The Future!

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2023/03/15

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 Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter 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 (c) 2022 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its

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Minisode 1: The Black Vampyre!

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2023/02/15

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 Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter 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 (c) 2022 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its

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S3E94 -Chapter Ninety-Four: The Queen of the Underworld!

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2023/01/04

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 Holmes, Akechi Kogoro, and Japanese pop culture and detective fiction more broadly! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Phil's

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S3E93 -Chapter Ninety-Three: The Never-Ending Battle!

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2022/12/21

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 Haldeman, one of the pillars of military Sci-Fi and a reminder that the absurdities of war are only going to get more absurd as we get further into the

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2022/12/14

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter 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 (c) 2022 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators. Used under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution 3.0 International License. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S3E92 -Chapter Ninety-Two: The Language Of The Spear!

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2022/11/30

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 and fantasy of REH and hated the unvarnished racism in his stories, and as a result created the genre of "sword and soul", with a secondary-world fantasy

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S3E91 -Chapter Ninety-One: A Bite Of The Magic Mushroom!

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2022/11/16

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 highly prescient and influential book about post-apocalyptic witchcraft. Lots of bonus commentary on Joseph Campbell and magickal rituals! Support us on

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S3E90 -Chapter Ninety: The Conquering Frequency!

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2022/11/02

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 hero to Venus for swashbuckling science-adventures, and eventually enabling communication with a race of intelligent insects. Truly, man's greatest

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S3E89 -Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Invisible War!

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2022/10/20

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 want you to hear it. Or maybe that's just paranoid delusion, which sadly is also a staple of fundamentalist culture. This week we look at This Present

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S3E88 -Chapter Eighty-Eight: Pax Aeronautica!

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2022/10/05

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 the steampunk genre, even if that wasn't the word they used for it, and serve as a century-later compliment to the Victorian novel Angel of the Revolution,

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Episode 88 Promo

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2022/09/21

Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter 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 (c) 2022 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators. Used under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution 3.0 International License. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S3E87 -Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Once And Future King!

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2022/09/07

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 Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Phil's Twitter Adam's Twitter What Mad Universe on Facebook What Mad Universe on Instagram What

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