Unseen Academicals: A Discworld and Terry Pratchett Podcast Joshua Bulleid
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An intermittent examination of Terry Pratchett's Discworld book series from an academic perspective, hosted by Joshua Bulleid.
Contact: unseenacademicalspod@gmail.com
Support: patreon.com/unseenacademicals
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14C – Pyramids, Part 2b: Egyptian Representations
The third and final episode tangentially related to Terry Pratchett's 1989 Discworld novel Pyramids, providing a crash course in Egyptian fantasy and science fiction—as in written by Egyptians, rather than simply about them. We go all the way back to the beginning, talking about traditional fantasy precursors and the origins of the modern Egyptian science fiction tradition, talking about its development throughout the later part of the twentieth century and providing some (overly) close analysis of Mustafā Mahmūd's The Spider (1965) and Nihād Sharīf's The Conqueror of Time (1972), before jumping forward to the allegedly more "authentic" post-2011 Egyptian Revolution era and the currently available English translations by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Mohammad Rabie and Ahmed Naji, among others.
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14B – Pyramids, Part 2a: Mummy Madness
Tangential mini(ish) episode, inspired by Pyramids (1989), examining mummy fiction and Western representations of Egypt from their nineteenth-century literary origins through twentieth-century film renditions and ultimate assimilation by stupid sexy vampires.
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14A – Pyramids, Part 1: Progress and Prejudice
We push the pop-filter to the limit this week, ptalking about Pterry Pratchett's seventh, unaffiliated, Discworld novel, Pyramids (1989), discussing the novel's critical reception along with its portrayals of plumbing, progress, pupils, personal identity, pyramids and polders, among other pthings.
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Worst Books in 2023
Josh counts down the worst books he read for the first time in 2023.
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Best Books in 2023
Josh counts down the best books he read for the first time in 2023.
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Best Albums of 2023
Josh, Eden and Karlo from Heavy Blog is Heavy count down their favourite albums of 2023.
Customer Reviews
Extremely interesting
As a fan of the discworld novels who is not a literary scholar and hasn’t had the opportunity to investigate the writings in this way, I have found it really insightful to hear all of the historical and modern references that Pratchett alludes to in his writings.
I also enjoy they less than PG nature of this podcast, love listening to you guys have fun.