Happy Halloweeeeeeeeen, attendants of the arcane, and welcome to a spooky new What Mad Universe?!? looking at The Beetle! You know, the smash hit horror novel of 1897? The one that outsold any other fly-by-night horror novels that year, such as (pulls out name at random) "Dracula", by Bram Stoker? Well, the cruel hand of mortality comes for us all, even the most popular stories, I guess!  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 Additional Music: "Darkspace (Slightly Burtonesque)" by Alayan-10 (c) 2021 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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S3E66 -Chapter Sixty-Six: The Child Of Isis!

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We're back and madder than ever, acolytes of adventure! Behold our extra-length season three premiere, in which we take a spin across the centuries and around the solar system, checking out stories of exploration from the whimsical satire of Voltaire to the supposedly 'hard' Sci-Fi of Arthur C. Clarke, and in the process look at how science fiction has evolved in parallel with the Enlightenment... 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.

Chapter Sixty-Five: Space Odysseys!

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Season 3 Preview: Onward to Yesterday!

Everything comes round again once more, and to everything there is a season...and ours is at an end. For the epic finale of Season Two, we're tackling the seminal 1922 fantasy novel The Worm Ouroboros, a tale of epic quests, Shakespearean intrigue, flowery language, and the planet Mercury for some reason. We want to give a big thank you to our listeners and supporters for two great seasons, and here's hoping #3 is just as much fun! We'll see you in the fall! 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.

S2E64 -Chapter Sixty-Four: The Demon's Quest!

As we near the end of the trail for season 2, WMU?!? takes a look away from the fantastical towards another pulp genre: the American western. Emma Ghent Curtis's The Administratrix tells a wild story of 19th century politics, feminism...and eventually, revenge. A cowboy novel written by someone who actually lived in the time and place most western writers have to imagine for themselves, it's a fascinating historical milestone. Engineer/Producer: Alex Ross Theme song by Jack Feerick Additional music: "Old Western Guitar Slides" by eliiii32 (c) 2021 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators.  This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

S2E63 -Chapter Sixty-Three: Westward With A Vengeance!

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The more things change, the more they stay the same...unless you've been genetically altered by aliens, I guess. In this episode we look at the Xenogenesis trilogy, better known these days as Lilith's Brood, by Octavia E. Butler, and gain a unique perspective on colonialism, consent and disability. Or maybe it's just the classiest Hentai ever written.  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 Additional Music: "fantastic1" by Alayan10 (c) 2021 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Chapter Sixty-Two: The Human Contradiction!

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Attention, sinners, the lord's justice is upon you today in the form of the dour puritan adventurer, Solomon Kane. Created by Robert E. Howard of Conan and Kull fame, Kane sails the seas and plunges deep into the jungle in his wanderings, sometimes guided by curiosity, sometimes by vengeance. Warning: we talk about racism a LOT in this one... Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil'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 Additional music: Mysterious Suspense by alayan-10 (c) 2021 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

S2E61 -Chapter Sixty-One: The Sword of Deliverance!

Back in our day, kids didn't sit around playing video games and doing the Fortnite dance. They were all genius inventors who were constantly creating astounding, world-changing inventions and heading off to have extremely racist adventures in the various wild frontiers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries! Yes, all of them! We know because of the genre collectively called the Edisonade, of which there are hundreds, all packed with boy geniuses creating super-scientific wonders (at least one of which manifested in the real world). It all begins with The Steam Man Of The Prairies by Edward S. Ellis, our subject this week. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil'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 Additional Music: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas (c) 2021 Adam Prosser and Philip Rice. Music (c) its respective creators. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Chapter Sixty: Manifest Ingenuity!

Sharpen your dueling rapier and grab hold of that chandelier, acolytes of adventure, for today What Mad Universe?!? takes a look at the original swashbuckling tale of romance, palace intrigue, and mistaken identities, The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope! While not widely known today, this book had a major impact on pop culture in the first half of the 20th century, in ways that are still popping up today. Support us on Patreon and listen to the show a week early! Phil's Patreon Adam's Patreon What Mad Universe?!? on Twitter Adam's Twitter Phil'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.

S2E59 -Chapter 59: The Acting Ruler!

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 of them are weird and fascinating. (If you like our work, please support us on Patreon! Adam is at https://patreon.com/user?u=404623 and Phil is at https://www.patreon.com/Spearhafoc .

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