Dec 27, 2014

I, for one, did not know that there was a star called Peacock. And now you're listening to the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Peacock. Hi, I'm Nuke, your host and editor, and they tell me that by using reasonably reliable parallax measurement techniques, that Alpha Pavonis is about 180 light years distant. And, yes, you...

Dec 20, 2014

Watch out for those jellyfish. Hi, I'm Nuke, sometimes known as the "Jollyfish", nothing like a jelly, and this is the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Alhena. To name alter egos, we could call it Gamma Geminorum, the third brightest brightest star in the constellation of Gemini. We've been through the other two, and now we're...

Dec 13, 2014

There's a case to be made in favour of this being the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Avior. Not happy to be single, Epsilon Carinae decided to be double, and to make it known so at a distance of at least 5 or 6 hundred light years, and only visible to us Southern Antipodeans. So bright, so intense, so wonderful in...

Dec 6, 2014

G'day and welcome to the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Sargas, also known as Theta Scorpii, the lovely far star that's fifth along the tail, forming the hook of Scorpio's deadly stinger.

And stinging, not singing, is what we're all about here at AntiSF. This is the first of the series of shows to feature stories from Issue...

Nov 29, 2014

Genre defines, but don't let that be a limitation. G'day and welcome, this is the AntipodeanSF Radio Show Alkaid, the most Eastern of stars in the Big Dipper, not a constellation that we're familiar with here in the Antipodes. We have Crux, though. And the crux of this matter is that I'm Nuke, your host and editor, and...