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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