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

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