Starship Alexandria

For the seventh day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Emma's choice is another show from the 1970's, but a lot less fantastical that the one from yesterday! If you'd like to support the show, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home Emma's latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance   Adrian's most recent book: Starseer's Ruin https://...

For the sixth day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Adrian evokes the drama of a classic SF show from the 1970's. If you'd like to support the show, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home Emma's latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance   Adrian's most recent book: Starseer's Ruin https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/hb-starseers-r...

For the fifth day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Emma tries to put into words how much she loves season five of an unusual television show. If you'd like to support the show, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home Emma's latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance   Adrian's most recent book: Starseer's Ruin https://www.warhammer....

For the fourth day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, it's Adrian's turn to talk about a favourite space based SF show from the nineties! If you'd like to support the show, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home Emma's latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance   Adrian's most recent book: Starseer's Ruin https://www.warhammer.com/en...

For the third day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Emma recommends an Australian TV show called Mr Inbetween. If you'd like to support the show, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home Emma's latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance   Adrian's most recent book: Starseer's Ruin https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/hb-starseers-ruin...

For the second day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Adrian champions the television series Spaced. If you'd like to support the show, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home Emma's latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance   Adrian's most recent book: Starseer's Ruin https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/hb-starseers-ruin-eng-2025 F...

For our first day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Emma sings the praises of Star Trek: The Next Generation and explains why it's so special to her. If you'd like to support the show, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home Emma's latest book: The Vengeance https://geni.us/thevengeance   Adrian's most recent book: Starseer's Ruin https://www.war...

For our eighth episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward the novel Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, for Emma to consider.   Our caveat from the episode: "If you have not read this book yet, go and read the book and then listen to this episode, because it really does benefit from not knowing what's going to happen."   Other talking points:   Pronunciation blues   God bless Wikipedia   Ad...

For our seventh episode of Starship Alexandria, Emma puts forward the novel The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson , for Adrian to consider.     Other talking points:   Wet Bulb Events   Nonconformist plot structures   The Doyenne of Climate Fiction   The balance of hope and despair   Asshole billionaires again   National stereotypes in spec fic   Adrian thinking he's being clever   S...

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...

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 Wilde...

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...

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 S...

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 accu...

For this very first episode of Starship Alexandria, Emma puts forward John Wyndham's classic SF novel The Kraken Wakes (1953) for Adrian to read and consider (published in the US as Out of the Deeps. )     Other media mentions:   The War of the Worlds, HG Wells     Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) , Aliens franchise, dir. Ridley Scott, James Cameron et al   The Quatermass franchise, dir. Various ,...