Hosts Alice Fraser and Tom Neenan bring you episode 8 of Realms Unknown with all the latest genre fiction based news and recommendations.

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Episode 8

In this week's news, as Paapa Essiedu has been cast as Snape in the new TV adaptation of Harry Potter, Alice and Tom discuss the racial considerations of the casting and how this might play out within the characterisation. Also, Bong Joon-ho's new film Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson intrigues them both, as does it being a Warner Bros production.

Metaphysical libraries are the focus of the sub-genre deep dive this week - with a whole library full of examples and recommendations to explore - see the affiliate store.

We also have Trope on a Rope, with certain commonly-used phrases the source of ire this week. And find out which significant public figure popping up in Iron Man 2, Star Trek Discovery, The Simpsons and Rick and Morty makes Tom uneasy.

FILMS

Mickey 17

Timestalker

TV

Harry Potter (HBO)

Dr Who - Silence in the Library + Forest of the Dead episodes

GAMES

The Last of Us Part II

BOOKS

The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges

Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett

The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins

Thursday Next series - Jasper Fforde

The Book that Wouldn’t Burn - Mark Lawrence

Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow - Jessica Townsend

Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik

Service Model - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

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