S1E1 -Chapter One: The Adventure Begins!
An overview of the podcast
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, providing an overview for the show and our thoughts, plus introducing a few characters we’ll be meeting along the way. The original first episode, a proof-of-concept in which we examined the book from which we got our name, Frederic Brown’s What Mad Universe, is now available on our Patreons…it’s fun, but we consider it ephemera, a warm up to the real show.
Anyway, strap yourself into the spaceship, look out for cosmic rays, and let’s blast off…into the future!
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