For the eighth day of the 2025 Starship Alexandria advent calendar, Adrian enthuses about an animated series that people recommended to him because of his novel Alien Clay.

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

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Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/hb-starseers-ruin-eng-2025

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Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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-ruin-eng-2025

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Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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.com/en-GB/shop/hb-starseers-ruin-eng-2025

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Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk

Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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-GB/shop/hb-starseers-ruin-eng-2025

Follow us at:

Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk

Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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-eng-2025

Follow us at:

Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk

Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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

Follow us at:

Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk

Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/hb-starseers-ruin-eng-2025

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Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk

Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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

Adrian shoehorns insects into absolutely everything

Readability as an overlooked virtue

Exploring the challenging female hero/love interest archetype

Was it an homage?

Sense of the numinous

Cornwall is a State of Mind

The internal document as narrative device

Media Mentions:

Diana Wynne Jones, author

Split Worlds series of novels, Emma Newman

Oppenheimer, movie dir. Christopher Nolan

Our next regular episode will look at the movie Godzilla Minus One directed by Takashi Yamazaki. However, we are taking a different turn for December and, instead of a single large episode, we will have an Advent Calendar, with one short episode every day where Emma and Adrian will discuss their favourite TV series. Meanwhile, the patron's episode will be our Q&A session.

Adrian's music recommendation: Duran Duran's Ordinary World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIACCH20JU&list=RDFqIACCH20JU&start_radio=1

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?srsltid=AfmBOor2S_A__evSPhVQRyFurB0Lf7CIMsVMoqxmB28ig0JRS8itagr0

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Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com

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

SFF as stealth literature for change

Media Mentions:

Saturation Point, novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky, narrated by Emma Newman

The Windup Girl, novel by Paulo Bacigalupi

The Remains of the Day, film dir. James Ivory

Star Trek: The Next Generation, TV series

Piranesi, novel by Susanna Clarke

Our next episode will look at the novel Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock.

Emma's music recommendation: Borodin's String Quartet No.2 in D Major https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKsCxvT8e8Y&list=RDRKsCxvT8e8Y&start_radio=1

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

Follow us at:

Emma: @[email protected] and www.enewman.co.uk

Adrian: @aptshadow.bsky.social and www.adriantchaikovsky.com