Starship Alexandria

• 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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• Episode 1 - The Kraken Wakes

  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, written by Nigel Kneale  A Mission of Gravity, Hal Clements  Blackgate Adventures in Fantasy blog https://www.blackgate.com/2020/07/16/these-two-books-are-not-the-same-john-wyndhams-the-kraken-wakes-and-out-of-the-deeps/  That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote, KJ Bishop    Our next episode will look at:  The Etched City, KJ Bishop (2004)    Emma’s music recommendation:  Jennifer, by Everything Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEIhJM-atiI&ab_channel=EverythingEverything    Emma’s upcoming book: The Vengeance https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-vengeance-emma-newman/7713374  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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