Sentient plants // Joe Abercrombie // Kurt Vonnegut

Host Alice Fraser and James Colley bring you episode 14 of Realms Unknown: your one-stop show for genre fiction tropes, news and recommendations!It's a mushroom / plant life / flora core / sentient forest special!Subscribe to The Bugle YouTube channel for episodes of all of our showsSupport Realms Unknown by becoming a Team Bugle subscriber thebuglepodcast.com/donateHelp your local bookshop by buying the books mentioned in the show in our Bookshop affiliate storeExplore the list of all books, games, films and TV series below.Episode 14In this week's sci fi and fantasy/real world crossover news, is there life on distant planet K2-18B, and are dire wolves making a comeback?James has been enjoying The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie and Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, while Alice has been dipping a toe into Mushroom Blues by Adrian M. Gibson.In this week's Trope on a Rope section, the forced 'here's six months earlier' flashbacks are annoying James and Alice really wishes that people would just wear appropriate headwear in the desert.Kurt Vonnegut's use of misogyny tarnishes James' otherwise love of the author, along with fatness being used as shorthand for evil of some sort.For all of the books mentioned in the sub genre deep dive this week, please see the lists below!Hosts' booksAlice Fraser - A Passion for PassionJames Colley - The Next Big ThingWhat have you been into?The Blade Itself - Joe AbercrombieLabyrinths - Jorge Luis BorgesMushroom Blues - Adrian M. GibsonSub-genre deep dive: plant life / flora coreThe Day of the Triffids - John WyndhamWar of the Worlds - HG WellsFILM Little Shop of HorrorsHyperion - Dan SimmonsTV Farscape‘Amnesty’ from Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia ButlerTV/GAME The Last of UsThe Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson BennettTV Seeds of Doom - Dr Who episodeBlue Moon Rising - Simon R GreenGAME BotanicaGAME Strange HorticultureGAME Caves of QudGAME Hollow Knight🔔 Subscribe, like, and comment!🦋 Find us on Bluesky!Produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter. Hosted by Alice Fraser and James Colley.📧 Got questions, feedback, or suggestions? Email us at [email protected]🌐 Visit thebuglepodcast.com to support us and find more! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.