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Starship Alexandria

Emma Newman and Adrian Tchaikovsky
Starship Alexandria
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  • Episode 6- Battle Beyond The Stars
    For our sixth episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward our first film, Battle Beyond the Stars directed by Roger Corman, for Emma to watch and consider.  Other talking points:  Idiolectic time units  Suggestive spaceship design  Doing the robot  Caiman, of the Lambda Zone  Doing a lot of spaceship on a small budget  James Horner soundtracks  The longevity of practical model work  Writing to music    Media Mentions:  The Seven Samurai, film directed by Akira Kurosawa  The Magnificent Seven, film directed by John Sturges  Logan’s Run, film directed by Michael Anderson  The Waltons, TV series  Pulp Fiction, film directed by Quentin Tarantino  The A-Team, TV series    Our next episode will look at The Ministry for the Future, the novel by Kim Stanley Robinson.    Adrian’s music recommendation: the soundtrack to the Skylanders computer game, by Lorne Balfe and Han Zimmer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Z9PCie0mo&list=PL046FFA1862CCE21C&ab_channel=SethisZurlo    Emma’s latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance   Adrian’s most recent book: The Hungry Gods https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-hungry-gods-adrian-tchaikovsky/7756963    Follow us at:  Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk   Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com 
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  • Episode 5 - The Golden Apples of the Sun
    For our fifth episode of Starship Alexandra, Emma puts forward the short story collection The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury to read and consider.    Other talking points:  Stories specifically talked about: A Sound of Thunder, The Foghorn, The Golden Apples of the Sun (short story), The Garbage Collector, The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl, I See You Never, Sun and Shadow, The Wilderness, The Black and White Game,   The butterfly effect (not the film)  Poetic and commercial prose  Lawsuits!  History, repeating itself  The prevalence of the nuclear apocalypse in fiction.  Amazing Obstructive Asshole Stories!  The Time Machine Factory Problem  The prevalence of psychic powers in fiction    Media Mentions:  Star Trek: the Next Generation, TV series (specifically the episode ‘The Survivors’)  The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms film directed by Eugéne Lourié  Pavane, novel by Keith Roberts  Oppenheimer, film directed by Christopher Nolan  Dune, novel by Frank Herbert  Zen in the Art of Writing, book by Ray Bradbury  Peter Pan, novel/play by JM Barrie  The Police, band    Our next episode will look at the film Battle Beyond the Stars directed by Roger Corman.    Emma’s music recommendation: the album Anticlines by Lucrecia Dalt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOL78nXzgCc&list=OLAK5uy_kirX77Moqz0sO1a2GqQ1D88fgsUvAzrS4&ab_channel=LucreciaDalt-Topic    Emma’s latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance and also a short story in the ‘Lesbians in Space’ anthology published by Space Wizard press https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbians-in-space-where-no-man-has-gone-before     Adrian’s most recent book: Bee Speaker https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bee-speaker-adrian-tchaikovsky/7741036?ean=9781035901456    Follow us at:  Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk   Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com 
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  • Episode 4 - Top Ten
    For our fourth episode of Starship Alexandra, Adrian puts forward the graphic novels Top Ten volumes 1 and 2 by Moore, Ha and Cannon, for Emma to read and consider.    Other talking points:  Police procedurals Graphic novel reading-fu Representation of minorities and prejudice The courage of our convictions (or lack of same)    Media Mentions:  Watchmen, graphic novel, Moore & Gibbons  V for Vendetta, graphiv novel, Moore, Lloyd & Weare  Hill Street Blues, TV series  I Robot and related stories, Asimov  ER, TV series  The Boys, graphic novels, Ennis & Robertson (also TV series)  Jess Nevins’ annotations to Top Ten: https://enjolrasworld.com/Jess%20Nevins/Top%20Ten/Top%20Ten%20index.htm  The Ballad of Halo Jones, graphic novels, Moore & Gibson  Captain Britain, comics run by Moore & Davis  Invincible, TV series and comic by Kirkman, Walker and Ottley    Our next episode will look at the short story collection The Golden Apples of the Sun by Ray Bradbury.    Adrian’s music recommendation: “Lass Sie Gehen” by Seeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAiMoUJwp7w&list=RDGAiMoUJwp7w&start_radio=1&ab_channel=Seeed    Emma’s latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance and also a short story in the ‘Lesbians in Space’ anthology published by Space Wizard press https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/lesbians-in-space-where-no-man-has-gone-before     Adrian’s most recent book: Bee Speaker https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bee-speaker-adrian-tchaikovsky/7741036?ean=9781035901456    Follow us at:  Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk   Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com 
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  • Episode 3 - The Lathe of Heaven
    For our third episode of Starship Alexandra, Emma puts forward Ursula K le Guin’s fascinating SF novel The Lathe of Heaven for Adrian to read and consider.  Other talking points:  Reality-bending in SF  Unusual power relationships  Tech billionaire problem solving  The perils of having superpowers  Inadvertent puns    Media Mentions:  The Fifth Element, film, dir. Luc Besson  Eye in the Sky, novel, Phillip K Dick  It’s a Good Life, short story, Jerome Bixby  Young Americans, film, dir. Danny Cannon  Dancer in the Dark, film, dir. Lars von Trier    Our next episode will look at: Top Ten volumes 1 and 2, graphic novels by Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon.    Emma’s music recommendation: Play Dead by Björk https://youtu.be/cw09VTTDRRo?si=WAaY0qeb7cC4OH12   Emma’s latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance  Adrian’s most recent book: Bee Speaker https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bee-speaker-adrian-tchaikovsky/7741036   Follow us at:  Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com 
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  • Episode 2 - The Etched City
    For our second episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward KJ Bishop’s weird fantasy novel The Etched City (2004) for Emma to read and consider.  Other talking points:  A short discussion about spoilers and different thresholds depending on the work being considered  The challenges involved with reading and writing secondary world fantasy due to vocabulary  Adherence to historical accuracy when writing historical fantasy  Adrian's manifesto for the unacknowledged sub-genre "fantastical realism"    Media Mentions:  Dungeons and Dragons, tabletop role-playing game, Gygax et al  Perdido Street Station, book, China Mieville  Ambergris series, books, Jeff Vandermeer  Viriconium series, books, M John Harrison  A Man of Shadows, book, Jeff Noon  Tyrant Philosophers series, books, Adrian Tchaikovsky    Our next episode will look at:  The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K Le Guin (1971)   Adrian's music recommendation:  Minus Sixty-One by Woodkid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHcJepz3QW0    Emma’s latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance  Adrian’s most recent book: Shroud https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/shroud-adrian-tchaikovsky/7656869    Follow us at:  Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk  Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com   
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About Starship Alexandria

The Sci-fi and Fantasy podcast from the best of futures! In this future, humanity has solved its problems and is now sending spaceships from Earth, not in a desperate attempt to escape the apocalypse but because we can do so in a spirit of hope and exploration. As a part of the Starship Alexandria Project, the far-future analogues of 21st century authors Emma Newman and Adrian Tchaikovsky have been tasked to make recommendations from the ship’s vast library of creative works based on the preferences of our 21st century counterparts. Each of us will take it in turns to nominate a book, film or similar work, and the other will play judge and give the thumbs up or thumbs down to be recommended across the fleet.
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