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Podcast: What Mad Universe?!?
Episode: Chapter One: The Adventure Begins!
Description: Adventure! Excitement! Lurid chills and thoughtful thrills! The history of genre is a weird and slippery one that ranges from trash to highbrow art (and neither is always in the place you’d expect to find it!) WHAT MAD UNIVERSE?!? is a podcast where Adam Prosser and Philip Rice, two “informed novices”, sit down and try to trace the threads of history through SF and fantasy, pinpointing the possible origins of familiar tropes and flagging firsts in books both classic and obscure.
This “prologue” episode was recorded well into season 2 as a more helpful introduction to new listeners...