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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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S3E86 -Chapter Eighty-Six: The Lady of the Flame!

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2022/08/24

Gird your loins, acolytes of adventure, for a new What Mad Universe?!? that explores the origins of the classic fiery sword-maiden of pulp fame. C. L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry might be the first example of the trope...but as ever, it's a bit complicated. Fear not, we'll hash it out! You might also want to check out this bonus minisode we did on a similar topic, referenced in this episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-mad-3-she-55896277 Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early

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S3E85 -Chapter Eighty-Five: Electric Dreams!

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2022/08/10

It's new! It's improved! It's the latest sensation! 4 out of 5 dentists agree, What Mad Universe?!? is the podcast that puts spring in your step, makes your whites whiter, and firms, lifts and separates! Our latest episode features guest Andre Gordon as we talk about UBIK, by Philip K. Dick, and try to figure out if it's about god, reality, or product placement, or possibly all three. 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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Chapter 85 Promo

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2022/08/03

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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S3E84 -Chapter Eighty-Four: Out With The Old!

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2022/07/20

Our newest episode looks at The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope, a 19th century work of SF by a writer who's not known for SF. It posits a future society where, once someone has gotten too old to be productive, they're shipped off to a farm upstate, where they can relax and enjoy their leisure time. For one year. Then they're executed. What a crazy concept! Fortunately here in the real world we would never place such an emphasis on productivity over human lives! Support us on Patreon and listen to

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S3E83 -Chapter Eighty-Three: The Twelve Hours Of The...

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2022/07/06

Continuing our look at the origins of Steampunk, a genre that proves to be a lot harder to nail down than you might suspect, we move on to Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates. This is a historical fantasy, not SF, and it's technically not set in the Victorian era either. So why is it a pivotal steampunk novel? Well... 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

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S3E82 -Chapter Eighty-Two: The Pride of Bear Creek!

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2022/06/22

What Mad Universe?!? takes another trip to the backwoods, and the writings of Robert E. Howard, with a look at the Breckenridge Elkins stories, a series of comical tales about a Hillbilly Hercules and the misadventures his lack of a brain stumbles him into. 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

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S3E81 -Chapter Eighty-One: A World Of Shadows!

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2022/06/08

After being delayed by a week (sorry), What Mad Universe?!? re-enters the elusive faerie realms for another link in the chain between classical and modern fantasy. This time it's George MacDonald's Phantastes, a book that inspired a great deal of twentieth century fantasy, and inspires a winding discussion of theology and the evolution of the fantastical in literature. 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

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A Slight Delay...

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2022/06/02

Apologies. 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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S3E80 -Chapter Eighty: Earth's Mightiest Mortal!

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2022/05/18

As long as there have been superheroes, people have been making fun of them, but the deconstructionist satires of superheroes really kicked into gear in the 80s. A precursor to stuff like Watchmen and Squadron Supreme, though, wasn't a comic at all--it was a novel, SUPERFOLKS! by Robert Mayer. In riffing on superheroes and their place in pop culture in the alienated post-Watergate US, it was a weird, silly, exuberant, and often tasteless--just like superhero comics themselves. Support us on Patreon

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S3E79 -Chapter Seventy-Nine: Giants In The Earth!

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2022/05/04

Of all the books we've looked at for the podcast, The Shaver Mysteries, by Richard Sharpe Shaver (with an assist by editor Ray Palmer), may be one of the most influential...for all the wrong reasons. A sensation when first published, Shaver's bizarre stories fed into conspiracy theories about flying saucers, ancient civilizations and subterranean terrors that are still with us today. They're also...really, really bad. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's

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S3E78 -Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Wings Of The Warrior!

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2022/04/20

Episode Notes Today What Mad Universe?!? takes a trip to Hollywood--and to a movie that never quite existed, Merian C. Cooper's "The War Eagles". A lavish fantasy pulp adventure from the producer and special effects team of "King Kong", this movie almost got made, and might have changed fantasy adventure films forever, but for a quirk of history (well, if you consider World War II a quirk). Eventually released as a novelization much later, the script remains one of cinema's great

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S3E77 -Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Golden Apples of...

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2022/04/06

As we plunge into the history of genre, we're starting to see that the 1920s were a remarkable and important time for fantasy literature, and today's subject, Lud-In-The-Mist by Hope Mirrlees, sits right at the crux of this important paradigm shift. This episode sees a wide-ranging discussion about not just the trends in fantasy in the early 20th century but also folklore and mythology more broadly. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad

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S3E76 -Chapter Seventy-Six: The Legend Of Flint's Trove!

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2022/03/23

EDIT: Sorry about the mix-up! The wrong audio was uploaded this morning. It's been corrected now. In this episode we're hoisting the mizzen mast and swabbing the poop deck to take a look at that staple of adventure stories, the world of piracy--specifically through the lens of Porto Bello Gold, a largely-forgotten pirate novel that happens to be an authorized sequel to the bedrock of pirate fiction, Treasure Island. Turn back now, land lubbers, lest yer ears be assailed by a barrage of salty

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S3E75 -Chapter Seventy-Five: The Darkening Lands!

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2022/03/09

All things must die...and that includes the planet Earth. In the vastly distant future, under a swollen red sun, mankind still struggles and strives against each other in a world vastly different than ours, yet also alike. The "Dying Earth" subgenre--which is subtly different from the post-apocalyptic genre--has been around for over a century, but the books that give it its name came along in the 1950s in a series of fix-up novels by Jack Vance. This week we're peering into that dark and brutal

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S3E74 -Chapter Seventy-Four: The Pyramids of Venus!

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2022/02/23

As far as satire goes, there's being of the moment, and there's being way ahead of your time. The short 19th-century comedic SF novel To Venus In Five Seconds ends up parodying a bunch of tropes, from ancient astronauts to technobabble, at a time long before you would have assumed they'd sunk in to pop culture, and on this episode we're diving into it (for longer than five seconds) Adam's Patreon Phil's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Phil's Twitter Adam's Twitter What Mad Universe on

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S3E73 -Chapter Seventy-Three: The Queen Of Engines!

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2022/02/09

Clank Clank, Cheerio, old tops, and welcome to the first of our shows this season delving into the fraught sub-subgenre of steampunk! Anachronism is involved, of course, as this first work officially dubbed "steampunk" is actually a lot later than many other works that were retroactively incorporated into the genre, but it really draws into focus the politics and cultural values that surround it...and that most other steampunk works pointedly ignore. Support us on Patreon and listen to the

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Chapter 73 Promo

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2022/02/02

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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S3E8 -Chapter Seventy-Two: The Prince of Dandies!

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2022/01/26

Od's Fish! What Mad Universe?!? welcomes people of the better sort to a fancy episode analyzing the Scarlet Pimpernel, that dashing dandy who saves the wealthy and powerful from the guillotine while looking his best doing it! Have your invite ready and wear your most stylish clothes, or prepare to be jibed mercilessly! 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

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Chapter 72 Promo

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2022/01/19

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) 2021 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S3E71 -Chapter Seventy-One: The Stars Are Not For Man!

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2022/01/12

Say hello once again to the devil you know, on this first What Mad Universe?!? of 2022. Here we're looking at Arthur C. Clarke's book Childhood's End, one of the heavy hitters of post-WWII Sci-Fi and a massive influence on everything going forward. We're also joined by special guest Andrew Hickey of the History of Rock Music in 500 Songs podcast. 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

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