Episode 14 - Piranesi

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

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