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Starship Alexandria

Starship Alexandria

De: Emma Newman and Adrian Tchaikovsky
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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.2025 Arte Historia y Crítica Literaria
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  • Episode 5 - The Golden Apples of the Sun

    Episode 5 - The Golden Apples of the Sun
    Aug 9 2025
    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: @emmanewman@bsky.social and www.enewman.co.uk Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com
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    57 m
  • Episode 4 - Top Ten

    Episode 4 - Top Ten
    Jul 9 2025
    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 proceduralsGraphic novel reading-fuRepresentation of minorities and prejudiceThe 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: @emmanewman@bsky.social and www.enewman.co.uk Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com
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    1 h y 2 m
  • Episode 3 - The Lathe of Heaven

    Episode 3 - The Lathe of Heaven
    Jun 9 2025
    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: @emmanewman@bsky.social and www.enewman.co.uk Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com
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    49 m
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