Starship Alexandria

For our June 2026 episode of Starship Alexandria Adrian puts forward the book Piranesi by Susanna Clarke for Emma's consideration.   Other talking points:  The State of What the F Is Going On  The joy of found document sources  The Triangle of Information ™  Two views of the nicest character in fiction  Analogues with dementia  Shadows on a cave wall  Psychic ideating communion(!)  One author enters, two classics leave  The ignorant unreliable narrator    Media Mentions:  Mythago Wood, novel by Robert Holdstock (and our coverage of it here: https://starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-mythago-wood  The Magician's Nephew, novel by CS Lewis  Red Dwarf TV series (very tangentially!)  Wayne's World sketch series and movies dir. Penelope Spheeris  Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, novel by Susanna Clarke  The Life of Brian, movie dir. Terry Jones (also very tangentially!)  Planetfall series of novels by Emma Newman  Next month we look at Do You Dream of Terra Two? by Temi Oh   Adrian's music recommendation: Damnd Anthem's cover of Muse's Uprising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w48-1IQxnM&list=RD_w48-1IQxnM&start_radio=1     Emma's latest writing is included in Creative Futures (Beyond and Within) https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/creative-futures-allen-stroud/7847161 which was recently shortlisted for a BSFA Award  Adrian's most recent book is the graphic novel Salvation's Child https://www.amazon.co.uk/Final-Architecture-Salvations-Comixology-Originals-ebook/dp/B0FH2KR8LH    If you'd like to support the show, and get an additional monthly patrons-only episode, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home   You can buy our official t-shirts and mugs at https://starshipalexandria.teemill.com/  Follow us at:  Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk   Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com 

For our May 2026 episode of Starship Alexandria Emma puts forward the book Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan for Adrian's consideration.   Other talking points:  The difficulty of summarising  Somehow avoiding the word "surreal"  An emotional model railway trip.  Reading around the story  Balancing story collections  Styles of art  Media Mentions:  The art of Edward Gorey including The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Insect God  The art of Dr Seuss including I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sollew  The art of Adrian Sykes https://www.adriansykes.co.uk/   Next month we look at Piranesi by Susanna Clarke  Emma's music recommendation: Future Boy by Turin Brakes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AekubF2xYlg&list=RDAekubF2xYlg&start_radio=1   Emma's latest writing is included in Creative Futures (Beyond and Within) https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/creative-futures-allen-stroud/7847161 which was recently shortlisted for a BSFA Award  Adrian's most recent book: Children of Strife https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/children-of-strife-adrian-tchaikovsky/7864905   If you'd like to support the show, and get an additional monthly patrons-only episode, you can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/c/starshipalexandria/home   You can buy our official t-shirts and mugs at https://starshipalexandria.teemill.com/  Follow us at:  Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk   Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com