Notes from Coode Street: Recent Episodes
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Can you believe a storyteller? Ray Bradbury was a consummate storyteller who, in the introduction to his 1950 short story collection The Martian Chronicles, offered a possible origin story for the work. He had, he recalled, been 24 years of age when he read Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg Ohio, a collection of stories about small-town life. … Continue reading Episode 727: Ray Bradbury’s Million Year Picnic (with Jeffrey Ford and Kelly Link) →
In this week’s episode, we sort of turn the tables on Jonathan to discuss the art of assembling anthologies, and in particular no fewer than four books he has coming out over the next few months: Revolution in the Heart: Stories Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Book of the Dead, Vaster Than Empires:, … Continue reading Episode 726: Jonathan’s busiest year ever →
This week, Jonathan and Gary are joined by multiple award winning writer and critic Amal El-Mohtar, whose first story collection Seasons of Glass and Iron appeared earlier this year, and whose novella The River has Roots has won Nebula and Locus awards for 2026. We talk about our favorite stories in the collection, a diverse range of writers … Continue reading Episode 725: Amal El-Mohtar and the Seasons of Glass and Iron →
Locus is Kickstarting a brand new year’s best series, based on the annual recommended reading, and edited by me! Please consider supporting the Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2040521099/locus-anthology-2025
Many podcasts far more professional than ours have offered discrete segments covering different topics, so this week we decided to carefully organize the episode—wait, no we didn’t; we’re just rambling again. But we do begin with a small tribute to Jane Yolen, both a great writer and a great friend, which leads into some musings … Continue reading Episode 724: On Jane Yolen, small presses, and more →
Jonathan and Gary are delighted to welcome the wonderful Molly Tanzer, whose new novella And Side by Side They Wander is just out this week. Although it involves apparently benign alien visitors, a post-apocalyptic post-United States, corporate overreach, and a fair bit of space opera, the novella’s main focus is art, who really owns it, … Continue reading Episode 723: Molly Tanzer and the Nature of Art →
Jeffrey Ford’s eight full length collection, Pandemonium Waltz, was published by Lethe Press back in February. Ever since we’ve been meaning to sit down with him to discuss the new book, his approach to short story writing, how he assembles short story collections, and more. We’re delighted to have had the chance this week, to discuss … Continue reading Episode 722: Jeffrey Ford’s Pandemonium Waltz →
This week, Jonathan and Gary sit down and talk some new and forthcoming books, including our mutual choices for favorite book of the year so far. Gary starts by describing a book which he just finished and found particularly moving: The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard, Christopher Priest and Nina … Continue reading Episode 721: On Ballard, biography and books →
We kicked off the weekend with what proved to be a happy non-event. The highly touted arrival of Tropical Cyclone Narelle delivered plenty of rain – more than 70mm over the weekend – but the intense storms and wind largely passed us by. That meant by work-from-home Friday was like a rather intense winter’s day, … Continue reading Stormageddon, Faraway Trees, and dining out →
With Gary away at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Florida, and celebrating his 80th birthday (!!!!!), Jonathan sat down to chat with Alexandra Pierce and Ian Mond about why we read books, why we talk about and review them, and three great new books from 2026 that we loved. Along … Continue reading Episode 720: Alexandra Pierce, Ian Mond, and The Totally Temporary Book Club →
As usual, Jonathan and Gary raise a number of thorny questions about reading SF and fantasy, and resolve none of them. Beginning with Jonathan’s account of his recent reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, we speculate on what sort of expectations we bring as readers to novels in which the interiority of the characters … Continue reading Episode 719: Ishiguro, Dinniman, and genre expectations in story →
Today Jonathan and Gary are joined by Nebula, World Fantasy, and five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick to discuss the origins of some of his stories, the life and craft of the professional writer, and his extraordinary new short story collection, The Universe Box. As always, our thanks to Michael for making time to talk … Continue reading Episode 718: Michael Swanwick and The Universe Box →
It’s always a little tricky to keep track of new books. There are constant announcements and people doing what they can to promote this and that, and suddenly books are here and gone. So, I’m going to try to update this. A list of new short story collections to be published in English during 2026. … Continue reading Short story collections for 2026 →
As always, the Coode Street Motel Six bestrides continents, so after briefly comparing notes on the weather in Perth and Chicago, Gary and Jonathan get down to it and chat about the subjects of the moment. How do you talk about books and what was the weather like? The importance of settings in fiction, especially … Continue reading Episode 717: Activism, reviewing, books to look forward to, and a little about the weather →
There are snowstorms blowing where Gary is and Jonathan can see rain falling outside in Perth’s midsummer, but the Motel Six has been safely relocated and the Gershwin Room is open once again. Conversation starts off, perhaps incoherently, with dystopias and dystopian fiction, segues to Travis Baldree and the somewhat misdescribed notion of cozy fiction, … Continue reading Episode 716: Dystopias, cozy fiction and other dilemmas →
Jonathan and Gary kick off 2026 with no guests, but with the sort of wide-ranging ramble that some listeners seem to enjoy, and that others probably gave up on years ago. We talk about some books due in the new year, especially story collections by Samantha Mills, Amal El-Mohtar and others, how story collections can … Continue reading Episode 715: The one we recorded in between recording the other ones →
A quick glance at some books coming in 2026. Every year ends up surprising and there are always books you expect to read but never get to, and books you planned to read that disappoint. This list is simply a few books I’ve seen scheduled that I think could be interesting: A Trace of Blood, … Continue reading Books to look for in 2026 →
For our year-end discussion of 2025 books, we’re joined by Locus reviewers Ian Mond and Alex Pierce, and distinguished critic and novelist James Bradley. As usual, we mention a lot of authors and titles, and probably forget to mention many deserving others. But you’ll no doubt find some suggestions you hadn’t thought of, and some of … Continue reading Episode 714: The Year in Books with James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Alex Pierce →
Christmas Eve 2025. A completely different affair than last year, should you look back at the entry. We were coming off a stinking hot day of 44.3C and the weather was turning mild. Today, by comparison, it got up into the high 30s and tomorrow should be 40 with maybe a thunderstorm. We’ll see. The … Continue reading Christmas Eve, 2025 →
E.J. Swift‘s sixth novel, When There Are Wolves Again, is one of the standout science fiction novels of 2025. For the final instalment of the Coode Street Advent Calendar for 2025, Jonathan chats with Emma about what she has been reading and would recommend, the writing and publication of When There Are Wolves Again, her … Continue reading Episode 713: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 25 – E. J. Swift →
It’s December 24, the final day of Advent, and Coode Street has just two more episodes to go before our holiday break. Today, Gary and Jonathan chat with Ursula Vernon about her writing alter-ego T.Kingfisher, about what she’s read lately and would recommend, her recent work like Hemlock & Silver, What Stalks the Deep and … Continue reading Episode 712: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 24 – Ursula Vernon →
World Fantasy and Ignyte winner Tochi Onyebuchi joins Gary for a brief but wide-ranging discussion that touches upon his genre-hopping 2025 novel Harmattan Season, his fascinating Internet memoir Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, the virtues of Roberto Bolaño and Dostoevsky, and Tochi’s own work in progress. As always, our thanks to Tochi for … Continue reading Episode 711: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 23 – Tochi Onyebuchi →
Today Jonathan and Gary spend some time talking to Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who write together as “James S.A. Corey”, about what they’ve been reading, what they’d recommend, their seasonal reading and viewing, and their upcoming new novel, The Faith of Beasts. We also touch upon progress on Daniel’s third Kithamar novel and their … Continue reading Episode 710: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 22 – James S.A. Corey →
As both the Advent Calendar and the year move slowly towards a close, Gary and Jonathan chat with Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill, Light Perpetual, and the wonderful Cahokia Jazz about what he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, his holiday reading traditions and his incredible novel, Nonesuch. As always, our thanks to Francis for … Continue reading Episode 709: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 21 – Francis Spufford →
For Day 20 of the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Gary and Jonathan talk to Hugo Award winning author of the Wayfarer series, Becky Chambers, about what Becky’s been reading and would recommend, holiday reading and viewing traditions, publication of the Monk and Robot, and a brand new novel that should be out in 2026. As … Continue reading Episode 708: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 20 – Becky Chambers →
Gary talks with World Fantasy and Nebula Award winning writer Natalia Theodoridou, whose Bluebeard-inspired Sour Cherry was one of this year’s outstanding debut novels. We touch upon reading Samantha Harvey’s Orbital and whether or not it’s SF, the brilliance of Vajra Chandrasekera, Natalia’s own first novel, his short fiction, and his current writing plans. As always, our thanks to Natalia … Continue reading Episode 707: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 19 – Natalia Theodoridou →
With December and the Advent Calendar heading towards their conclusion, Gary and Jonathan chat with recently minted Hugo Award winner Ray Nayler about what he’s been reading, what he’s been working on, his recent novel Where the Axe is Buried and his upcoming novel, Palaces of the Crow, before talking about ghost stories and year … Continue reading Episode 706: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 18 – Ray Nayler →
It’s Day 17 of our Advent Calendar and today Gary and Jonathan chat with Alastair Reynolds about the 25th Anniversary of Revelation Space, his new short story collections, and his latest novel, Halcyon Years. We also touch on his favourite books of the year, what he’s planning, and his favourite seasonal reads. As always, our … Continue reading Episode 705: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 17 – Alastair Reynolds →
It’s been a minute since we last spoke to Kim Stanley Robinson on the podcast, back in 2020 when The Ministry for the Future was new in the world. So today, Gary and Jonathan took some time to chat with Stan as part of the Advent Calendar about what he’s been doing (a lot), what … Continue reading Episode 704: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 16 – Kim Stanley Robinson →
For the 15th day of our Advent Calendar Gary chats with Nebula and five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick about what he’s been reading, how he celebrates the holiday season, what he’s had out in the past year and his exciting new short story collection The Universe Box. As always, we’d like to thank Michael … Continue reading Episode 703: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 15 – Michael Swanwick →
For the 14th day of Advent, Jonathan is joined by Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated writer, Wole Talabi, to discuss the books he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, his brand new novella “Descent” and the Sauútiverse, and his forthcoming second novel, The Fist of Memory. As always, our thanks to Wole for taking … Continue reading Episode 702: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 14 – Wole Talabi →
For Day 13 of the Advent Calendar, Gary chats with Theodora Goss all the way from Budapest. They talk about re-reading Patricia McKillip, other favorite reading, and Dora’s excellent recent story collection Letters from an Imaginary Country, as well as her Athena Club novels and what it’s like to write fantasies drawing from and commenting on … Continue reading Episode 701: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 13 – Theodora Goss →
For this episode, Gary chats with the very busy and very talented Nnedi Okorafor, who has had quite a year with the publication of major new novel Death of the Author; One Way Witch, the second novella in her She Who Knows trilogy; Space Cat, a children’s book starring her own cat Periwinkle; and The … Continue reading Episode 700: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 12 – Nnedi Okorafor →
For Day 11 of our Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls up long-time friend of the podcast, acclaimed writer James Bradley, to discuss what he’s been reading lately, his fabulous new novel Landfall, whether he revisits any favourite books or movies at this time of the year, and what he’s been working on. As always, our thanks … Continue reading Episode 699: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 11 – James Bradley →
As we approach the halfway mark of our Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls Emily Tesh, Hugo Award winning author of Some Desperate Glory and co-host of reigning Hugo Best Fancast Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones to discuss the podcast she hosts with Rebecca Fraimow, her year in reading, her wonderful novel The Incandescent, and what … Continue reading Episode 698: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 10 – Emily Tesh →
For Day 9 of the 2025 Advent Calendar, Jonathan and Gary called Paul McAuley to discuss the books he’s been reading and would recommend, holiday traditions, what he’s had out recently, and his exciting new novel, Loss Protocol, which is due out in February. As always, our thanks to Paul for making time to talk … Continue reading Episode 697: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 9 – Paul McAuley →
I keep hearing about how good this England* side is — once-in-a generation players, incredible talent and so on. Blah blah. But here’s the thing — pretty much every time I’ve seen them play they consistently fail to bring it. Not just here in the 2025-26 Ashes, but most every other time. They’re great when … Continue reading Onwards to Adelaide… →
With our provider struggling a little following the various Cloudflare issues of late, Gary and Jonathan call up Nebula and BSFA Award winner Isabel J. Kim to talk about what she’s been reading, her holiday favourites, what she had out in the past year, and the upcoming publication of her debut novel Sublimation next year. … Continue reading Episode 696: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 8 – Isabel J. Kim →
Today Jonathan sits down with British SF Award winner and Arthur C. Clarke Award, BFA, and Tiptree Award nominee Aliya Whiteley to talk about what she’s been reading and would recommend as the holidays get underway, as well as her recent collaboration with Oliver K Langmead, and her upcoming novel The Misheard World. As always, … Continue reading Episode 695: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 7 – Aliya Whitely →
Day 6 of the 2025 Coode Street Advent Calendar sees Gary and Jonathan taking a moment to catch up Hugo and Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress about what she’s been reading, her most recent short story collection, and the new fantasy novel she has coming in 2026. As always, our thanks to Nancy for making … Continue reading Episode 694: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 6 – Nancy Kress →
As we move towards the end of the first week of our 2025 Advent Calendar, Gary and Jonathan take a moment to sit down with Adrian Tchaikovsky to talk about what he’s been working on, what he has coming out, and what holiday recommendations he might have. Adrian is the author of the brilliant Tyrant … Continue reading Episode 693: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 5 – Adrian Tchaikovsky →
The end of the year is fast approaching, we’re behind on episodes and we’re keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we’re going back to something we did in 2022. We’ve invited 24 creators of some of this year’s best and most interesting books to join us for ten minutes … Continue reading Episode 692: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 4 – Martha Wells →
The end of the year is fast approaching, we’re behind on episodes and we’re keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we’re going back to something we did in 2022. We’ve invited 24 creators of some of this year’s best and most interesting books to join us for ten minutes … Continue reading Episode 691: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 3 – China Mieville →
In amongst the hurly burly of the end of the year and putting together the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Gary and Jonathan found time to sit down with long-time friend of the podcast (and most frequent guest!) Kij Johnson. We last spoke when Kij’s most recent short story collection, The Privilege of the Happy Ending … Continue reading Episode 690: Kij Johnson on Gaming, Storytelling and the Nature of Farce →
The end of the year is fast approaching, we’re behind on episodes and we’re keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we’re going back to something we did in 2022. We’ve invited 24 creators of some of this year’s best and most interesting books to join us for ten minutes … Continue reading Episode 689: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 2 – Arkady Martine →
The end of the year is fast approaching, we’re behind on episodes and we’re keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we’re going back to something we did in 2022. We’ve invited 24 creators of some of this year’s best and most interesting books to join us for ten minutes … Continue reading Episode 688: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 1 – Nina Allan →
2025 looked, on the surface of it, like a quiet year for me. Less Tordotcom work and no new anthologies. In truth, I completed three anthologies, and two that were scheduled for October are now coming out in 2026. Still it was a year when I edited two Subterranean Press novellas, two Tordotcom novellas, ten … Continue reading Awards eligibility – 2025 →
Our guest this week is the remarkable Kemi Ashing-Giwa, whose new novel The King Must Die is out in November. We talk about science fantasy—or whether genre labels mean much at all to the new generation of writers—her own influences, her well-received first novel, the space opera The Splinter in the Sky, and even her … Continue reading Episode 686: Kemi Ashing-Giwa and The King Must Die →
This week we have a lively conversation with the remarkable Ken Liu, whose new thriller All That We See or Seem introduces a new protagonist, the gifted hacker Julia Z, in a tale that explores the growing role of AI, the possibility of a technology of shared dreams, a variety of near-future surveillance tech, and … Continue reading Episode 686: Ken Liu, Technothrillers and AI Dreaming →
In a rare shorter episode, we chat about the late and much missed Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, with whom Jonathan and Gary had strangely similar encounters some years ago, and her early career as an SF writer before her decades-long success with her Saint-Germain series of vampire novels. That leads, briefly, to considering midlist vs. niche … Continue reading Episode 685: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and the Anthropic AI case →
With Gary recently returned from Worldcon in Seattle, we chat a bit about the Hugos (mostly avoiding second-guessing the results), which leads to some discussion of the differences between Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. Jonathan raises an intriguing question about the novella category, with its rather reductive word-length definition of the form. But what, … Continue reading Episode 684: On stories, awards, and reading →
Twenty five years ago China Mieville‘s second novel, Perdido Street Station, introduced the world to the fantastical city of Bas Lag. It went on to win the Arthur C Clarke and British Fantasy awards, and be nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Tiptree, and Locus awards among others. Perdido Street Station was followed by … Continue reading Episode 683: China Mieville and 25 Years of Bas Lag →
In this week’s episode, we’re joined by two of our most exciting writers, each of whom has a new book out in August. Charlie Jane Anders’ Lessons in Magic and Disaster offers a wonderful combination of witchcraft, academia, and generational family tensions, while Annalee Newitz’s Automatic Noodle features a team of robots trying to establish a noodle … Continue reading Episode 682: Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz →
We’re almost embarrassed to admit it, but it’s been ten years since we last chatted with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, shortly after her first novel Signal to Noise had been published. Now she’s back, talking about an excellent new novel The Bewitching. Along the way, we touch upon several of her other novels, including the bestselling Mexican … Continue reading Episode 681: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and The Bewitching →
Even though we know that some past episodes have probably spent too much time talking about awards, our latest chat begins with some thoughts on—well, awards. With Nebulas, Hugos, Shirley Jackson, Ignyte, World Fantasy, etc., there are just too many to ignore. We soon drift off into other topics. Gary is looking forward to hosting … Continue reading Episode 680: Talking science fiction →
This week we are joined by an old friend of the podcast, the distinguished Canadian novelist Guy Gavriel Kay, whose wonderful new novel Written on the Dark is out this month. As always, we not only touch upon some details of the novel— which takes place in Kay’s own version of an alternate 15th century France, … Continue reading Episode 679: Guy Gavriel Kay and Written on the Dark →
This week it’s just Jonathan and Gary again, in what some listeners might view as an either a classic ramble or a series of rabbit holes from which we never fully escape. We start with a discussion of some current trends such as cozy fantasy and SF, romantasy, and dark academia, noting that these had … Continue reading Episode 678: Nearly 15 years of rambling… →
This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by Silvia Park to discuss her exciting debut novel, Luminous, which started life as a children’s novel and connects to the Reactor/Tordotcom novelette “More Real Than Him“. We chat about artificial intellligence, writing about robots and how we use them as surrogates in fiction, different perspectives on fiction … Continue reading Episode 677: Silvia Park and Luminous →
In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Tachyon Publications, we invited publisher Jacob Weisman to join us in a fascinating exploration of the independent publisher whose list of authors includes classic tales from Stanley Weinbaum, A.E. Van Vogt, and even Mary Shelley, as well as major work from contemporary writers like Peter S. Beagle, Patricia … Continue reading Episode 676: Jacob Weisman and 30 Years of Tachyon →
This week Gary and Jonathan are joined by long time friend of the podcast, Joe Abercrombie. We last spoke to Joe during the pandemic when he was working on The Age of Madness series. He joins us this week to discuss his brand new novel The Devils, which launches a new series and a new … Continue reading Episode 675: Joe Abercrombie and The Devils →
As we try to return to some sort of regular schedule, we’re delighted to welcome back Joe Monti, vice president and editorial director of Saga Press, to discuss the current state of the publishing business, the effects (if any) of the current economic stresses, and what to look forward to in the coming months (Joe … Continue reading Episode 674: Joe Monti and the State of Play →
With apologies for an unplanned hiatus, during which Gary traveled to Florida to attend the International Conference on the Fantastic, we’re back with a discussion that touches upon awards (again, but briefly), SF writers who are also good nonfiction writers, books whose 25th anniversary is this year (including Perdido Street Station), tribute anthologies such as … Continue reading Episode 673: Much Ado About March →
This week’s episode features a few news items, but as usual you have to listen closely to find them among our usual free-association digressions. Awards season is underway. Nominations/and or votging for the Nebulas, Locus Awards, and Hugo Awards (once again we are eligible in the Fancast category, and Jonathan in the Editor Short Form … Continue reading Episode 672: We’ve probably forgotten something important →
Each year, we sit down and look at the year ahead and, inevitably, end up discussing the books we are looking forward to. This year we invited long time friends of the podcast Charlie Jane Anders and Ian Mond to join us. During a lively conversation it became clear that, no matter what else is … Continue reading Episode 671: Books We’re Looking Forward to in 2025 →
For those who might have been hoping our 2025 podcasts might get a little more focused and coherent, our apologies. Following up on several discussions on social media about how to learn about overlooked but deserving novels (mostly fantasy), we speculate on the factors that help a book or author gain and keep some sort … Continue reading Episode 670: Why is some work overlooked →
I’m toying with the idea of a doing a proper list of books I’m looking forward to in 2025, but for the moment I thought I’d start with the books that look good for this month, January. While the book that most people are probably going to buy is the new one from romantasy phenomenon … Continue reading New books I’m Looking Forward to this January →
For our first episode of 2025, we touch upon novels we’ve been reading for the new year, including Charles Stross’s 13th Laundry novel A Conventional Boy and Ray Nayler’s Where the Axe is Buried, as well as the frustrations of reading books on deadlines—as opposed to wallowing in them at leisure, and some non-SF writers we like. Gary … Continue reading Episode 669: On the importance of books and the beginning of a new year →
It’s Christmas Eve 2024 here in Perth. It was 44.3C yesterday, but there’s a cool change and Christmas should be sunny and mild. Boxing Day is a day of preparation rather than celebration at our house. Family are coming tomorrow, so there’s shopping to be done and so on, gifts to be wrapped, food to … Continue reading Christmas Eve 2024 →
For our year-end review of 2024 books, we’re joined once again by fellow Locus reviewer Ian Mond and distinguished critic and novelist James Bradley. As usual, we mention a lot of authors and titles, and probably forget to mention many deserving others. But you’ll no doubt find some suggestions you hadn’t thought of, and some of our … Continue reading Episode 668: The Year in Books with James Bradley and Ian Mond →
At the end of October Reactor published their list of The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century, which attempted to list the best/top/favourite science fiction and fantasy books of the past 25 years. Two weeks later Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award-winning writer Jo Walton published a follow-on piece on Reactor, On … Continue reading Episode 667: Jo Walton and the most iconic books of the 21st century →
This week’s episode is mostly about books—how do you get them, where do you put them, and how to get rid of them when you need to. You’d think that questions such as the best way to shelve books would be pretty uncontroversial, but apparently that’s not always the case. We also touch upon the … Continue reading Episode 666: In which we discuss what to do with books →
2024 was a year when I edited one reprint anthology (no originals this year!, six Subterranean Press and Tordotcom novellas, thirteen short stories for Reactor and Subterranean, and acted as reviews editor for Locus for the 22nd consecutive year. As a podcaster, I co-hosted and produced a total of 28 episodes of The Coode Street … Continue reading Awards eligibility – 2024 →
Long time friend of the podcast Joe Monti, who was recently promoted to Vice President, Associate Publisher, and Editorial Director at Saga Press, and is now officially a “Big Cheese’, stops by for a wide-ranging chat about the impact of the pandemic and other events on the affordability of books; trends in recent science fiction, … Continue reading Episode 665: Joe Monti and the State of Things →
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic The Dispossessed, we sit down for a chat with award-winning biographer and writer Julie Phillips, author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon and The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Body Problem. … Continue reading Episode 664: Julie Phillips and talking about Ursula K. Le Guin →
For our first October episode, we try out another new opening, touch upon the recent catastrophic weather in Florida and the hazards of attempting near future SF in a rapidly changing world, with Norman Spinrad’s Russian Spring as one example. After a brief digression (what else?) on novels that extrapolate political decisions more than technological … Continue reading Episode 663: How science fiction responds →
As we gear up for the inevitable year-in-review discussions, and the annual semi-hiatus between the fall and spring convention sessions (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), we return to our familiar questions of canon and influence, noting that while some books seem to drop out of the discussion within months of being published, others,like Orson … Continue reading Episode 662: Rambling to the end of the year →
In this episode we are delighted to welcome the extremely talented Emily Tesh, who managed the rare achievement of winning a World Fantasy Award for her first novella Silver in the Wood and a Hugo Award for her first novel, Some Desperate Glory. We touch upon some works that figure in Emily’s approach to science … Continue reading Episode 661: Emily Tesh and Some Desperate Glory →
With the Glasgow World Science Fiction Convention behind us, and with Gary back in Chicago and Jonathan back in Perth, our faithful podcasters pick up the task once again. This week we are delighted to welcome long-time friend of the podcast, Nalo Hopkinson, who joins us to discuss her brilliant new novel, Blackheart Man, and … Continue reading Episode 660: Nalo Hopkinson and Blackheart Man →
The Forever War, the debut novel from US writer Joe Haldeman, was first published by St Martins Press in 1974. It was shortlisted for the Locus Award, and was awarded the Hugo and Nebula Awards as Best SF Novel of the year. It went on to become recognised as an essential classic of the science … Continue reading Episode 659: Joe Haldeman and The Forever War (Live in Glasgow) →
With the Glasgow WorldCon just around the corner, Gary and Jonathan turn their attention to plans for the event. In addition to panel appearances, there’ll be a special live recording of The Coode Street Podcast where we are joined by Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman, and John Scalzi to discuss 50th anniversary of the publication of The … Continue reading Episode 658: A resumption of normal service →
We’re delighted to welcome a distinguished pair of guests, the legendary Michael Swanwick and writer and critic Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, whose book-length interview Being Michael Swanwick explores Michael’s entire career, and whose debut novel Equimedian has been described as a love letter to the SF of the ’70s and ’80s. As usual, we wander a bit, … Continue reading Episode 657: Being Alvaro and Michael →
For any listeners who have missed our longstanding tradition of almost unfettered rambling, we turn our attention this week to the questions of how and why certain novels and writers seem to hold up better than others, how younger readers can enjoy some older classics while completely tuning out others, and the difference between books … Continue reading Episode 656: Stop us if you’ve heard this one before →
Multiple Aurealis, Ditmar, and Shirley Jackson award winner Kaaron Warren joins us for this week’s episode, along with old friend of Coode Street and fellow Locus reviewer Ian Mond, mostly to discuss Kaaron’s wonderful new novel The Underhistory, how it does or doesn’t align with traditional genre categories, and what such categories mean anyway. Ian … Continue reading Episode 655: Kaaron Warren and the Underhistory of things →
The distinguished Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Locus Award winner Paolo Bacigalupi joins us this week to talk about his forthcoming historical fantasy Navola, as well as the challenges of shifting from a focus on environmental SF to epic fantasy, the liberation that comes from being able to invent a world (and partly a language) … Continue reading Episode 654: Paolo Bacigalupi and the Road to Navola →
We’re delighted to welcome to Coode Street Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians trilogy, to discuss his major new Arthurian novel The Bright Sword, which appears from Viking in July. We touch upon earlier versions of Arthurian fiction by T.H. White, John Steinbeck, Bernard Cornwell, Nicola Griffith, and others, the balance between historical research … Continue reading Episode 653: Lev Grossman and The Bright Sword →
For this special short episode, Jonathan and Gary are joined by an old friend, Nebula and World Fantasy winner Ellen Klages, who recently gained an entirely new kind of recognition when she appeared on the long-running TV quiz show Jeopardy and recalled the “scary ham” story, which she first improvised at a Nebula ceremony ten … Continue reading Episode 652: Ellen Klages and the Ham in Jeopardy →
This episode is a wide-ranging discussion with two important guests: the brilliant Vajra Chandrasekera, whose amazing first novel The Saint of Bright Doors is currently nominated for both Hugo and Nebula Awards, and whose even more adventurous Rakesfall will be published in June, and our old friend, the excellent critic, reviewer and fellow podcaster (The … Continue reading Episode 651: Vajra Chandrasekera and The Saint of Bright Doors →
Gary and Jonathan are joined by Tobi Ogundiran, whose novella In the Shadow of the Fall is the first of the “Guardian of the Gods,” and whose first story collection Jackal, Jackal, was published to considerable acclaim last year. Winner of the Ignyte and nominee for the BSFA, and Shirley Jackson awards, Tobi discusses growing … Continue reading Episode 650: Tobi Ogundiran and the Guardian of the Gods →
This week, we’re joined by the wonderful Nghi Vo, whose The Brides of High Hill is out this week. It’s the fifth of her ongoing “Singing Hills” sequence of novellas about the peripatetic Cleric Chih and their sharp-tongued companion hoopoe, Almost Brilliant. We discuss how Nghi has made use of different storytelling modes throughout the … Continue reading Episode 649: Nghi Vo and The Brides of High Hill →
This week Jonathan and Gary start out with something resembling a topic: the proliferation of subgenres, movements, and marketing categories in SF and fantasy: from the evolution of space opera in SF to the rise of epic fantasy (and Ballantine’s earlier term “adult fantasy”), as well as consciously developed movements such as the New Wave, … Continue reading Episode 648: Genre, marketing, and more →
Once again with no guest to give us focus, Jonathan and Gary return to rambling mode, spurred on by the observation that voting for the 2024 Hugo Awards is now open. This leads to our ongoing discussion of what the Hugo Awards do and do not represent, why voting for your favorite works is important even … Continue reading Episode 647: Oh no, not us again… →
This week we are joined by the legendary author of The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, who discusses his new novel I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons (published next month by Saga Press & Gollancz), as well as his storied career, his pals from childhood, influential writers such as Robert Nathan and Avram Davidson, and last year’s … Continue reading Episode 646: Peter S. Beagle and a Life Filled With Story →
On the fiftieth anniversary of his groundbreaking anthology Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, we’re joined by the terrific author and editor Jack Dann. During our conversation, we mention his new collection Islands of Time—published almost exactly 50 years after his first book— as well as his The Fiction Writer’s Guide … Continue reading Episode 645: Jack Dann and Fifty Years of Wandering Stars →
This time out, Jonathan and Gary consider the meaning of “cozy” (or “cosy”) SF and fantasy, and whether cozy horror is even a thing. We trace the term back to cozy mystery novels and Brian W. Aldiss’s characterization of certain British writers of the 1950s—especially John Wyndham—as “cozy catastrophes”. Not surprisingly, this doesn’t lead to … Continue reading Episode 644: Cozy books and a prickly writer →
Somewhat hesitantly, Jonathan and Gary return to the mics, sans guests, and somehow get into a discussion of various SFF listicles—partly because of Gary’s recent contribution to fivebooks.com of a list of five novels about science fiction. Why are such lists so appealing and so ubiquitous these days, and who are they for? By the … Continue reading Episode 643: All Time Top 5s →
This week Nebula and World Fantasy award winner, Premee Mohamed, joins Gary and Jonathan from somewhere in the wilds of Canada to discuss writing, reading, building a career, and her fabulous new novella, The Butcher of the Forest. We also discuss the projects Premee has planned for the rest of the year, including forthcoming new … Continue reading Episode 642: Premee Mohamed and The Butcher of the Forest →
For our second episode of 2024, we’re joined by the inimitable Kelly Link, whose forthcoming first novel The Book of Love is already receiving stellar advance reviews (including one from Gary in Locus). Kelly explains how the novel evolved, it connections to various genres from romance to supernatural horror, the importance of valuable encouragement from … Continue reading Episode 641: Kelly Link and the love of books →
All round good guy Scott Edelman was at the recent World Fantasy Convention, and took Gary and Jonathan out for lunch and a chat. That chat became the latest episode of Eating the Fantastic, Scott’s terrific podcast. If you’re interested, you can hear the episode here.
And just like that, our end-of-year hiatus is done and the Coode Street Podcast is back! Gary and Jonathan return from their annual break and kick off a brand new season with discussions of recent news events in science fiction, how our thoughts about books and ideas change over time, 50th anniversaries of famous books, … Continue reading Episode 640: A new year begins. Shenanigans ensue? →
For as long as I can remember, my birthdays have been weird, a little fraught, a little difficult. I do not really enjoy them. Maybe it’s because I was born in a leap year, or maybe I’m difficult, or maybe I don’t get why everyone wants to make a fuss. Maybe it feels a bit … Continue reading Birthdays are weird →
Was up early, had some breakfast, and then did some novella editing. Afte that, well, Sunday, New Year’s Eve, was a little stormy. The family was due to go to see the musical &Juliet, tickets having been acquired as part of Marianne’s birthday this year. For some reason, the eldest took it into her head … Continue reading Carrie and Juliet, or a New Year’s Eve for 2023 →
Christmas is only just in the rearview mirror and the things that made me want to keep a journal last year are reading their heads again, so let’s try. It’s the 30th so I won’t try to detail the week between Christmas and New Year except to say we watched a lot of movies, I … Continue reading Saturday night →
I had a busy year over at Tor.com. Below are the twelve stories I acquired and edited for the site. My thanks to all of the authors and to everyone at Tor.com for letting me be involved in such a very special year! “The Counterworld” by James Bradley Illustrated by Mary Haasdyk Published February 1, … Continue reading A Year at Tor.com – Stories I acquired for 2023 →
2023 was a year when I edited two original anthologies, two Tordocom novellas, eleven of Tor.com’s short stories, and acted as reviews editor for Locus for the 21st consecutive year. As a podcaster, I co-hosted and produced a total of 19 episodes. Fiction edited in 2023 Anthologies The Book of Witches, Harper Voyager Communications Breakdown: … Continue reading Awards eligibility – 2023 →
For the 2023 instalment of the Very Coode Street Gift Guide, we invited some old friends to share their recommendations of books read in 2023: Alix E. Harrow (whose very worthy Starling House was a favorite, officially excluded from discussion because of her participation in the episode), award-winning Locus reviewer Ian Mond, and distinguished novelist James Bradley, … Continue reading Episode 639: A Very Coode Street Gift Guide Roundtable 2023 →
The end of the year may be fast approaching, but this episode isn’t quite our usual year-in-review discussion (which will come up later), or our books-we’re-looking-forward-to episode. Instead, we spend some time musing about books we maybe should be looking forward to, if we only knew about them. This raises the question of forthcoming novels … Continue reading Episode 638: Books that were off our radar →
With plans for are promised chat with Elizabeth Hand and Alix E. Harrow on temporary hold, Jonathan and Gary share some pleasant memories of the World Fantasy Convention, muse about whether the nature of conventions has changed in the wake of the pandemic, and speculate about next year’s events in Glasgow, Niagara Falls, and elsewhere. … Continue reading Episode 637: A Quick One, While We Wait →
The 2023 World Fantasy Convention was held in Kansas City, Missouri over the weekend of October 26-29 2023. The convention was incredibly kind and generous and featured Jonathan as a guest of honour and Gary as a panelist. During the weekend we grabbed long-time friends of the podcast Kij Johnson and Jeffrey Ford and attempted … Continue reading Episode 636: Jeffrey Ford, Kij Johnson and the Art of Narrative →
Responding in part to some issues raised by Niall Harrison in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Jonathan and Gary discuss the value and purpose of year’s best anthologies, whether it’s even possible to still represent such a diversified international field, and how stories we read in anthologies frame our own reading experiences and help … Continue reading Episode 635: On the nature of purpose in science fiction →
For this episode, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the distinguished novelist, editor, and scholar Jack Dann, whose new The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History: A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History has just been published by Bloomsbury Academic. Jack discusses definitions of alternate history (as opposed to secret history or parallel universes), his … Continue reading Episode 634: Jack Dann and the Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History →
In a return to classic rambling form, Jonathan and Gary begin thinking about the waning months of the year, and the inevitable recommended reading discussions. Jonathan starts off by asking why we always seem to say it was a surprisingly good year for collections, when just about every year is a good year for collections. We also … Continue reading Episode 633: A classic ramble →
This week Hugo and Nebula nominee Wole Talabi joins Jonathan and Gary for a wide-ranging discussion celebrating the publication of his wonderful first novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon and his Hugo Award-nominated novelette, “A Dream of Electric Mothers“. We discuss the recent worldwide recognition of African SFF, his use of Yoruba religion … Continue reading Episode 632: Wole Talabi and Shagidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon →
After Gary enjoyed a weekend at Readercon, we’re back with another one-on-one ramble that covers topics from the proliferation of SF awards (and what they really might be for), to some recent and forthcoming books we’re excited about (including Kemi Ashing-Giwa’s The Splinter in the Sky, Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors, Wole Talabi’s Shigidi … Continue reading Episode 631: Awards, debut novels, and science fiction at the moment →
After an unplanned hiatus, we’re back with the wonderful Kij Johnson, who will be a guest of honour at this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Kansas City this coming October. Small Beer will publish a new collection of Kij’s work, The Privilege of the Happy Ending, to coincide with the convention. We discuss the challenges … Continue reading Episode 630: Kij Johnson and the Nature of Story →
In this episode, Jonathan and Gary have a long overdue extended discussion with the wonderful Ursula Vernon (aka T. Kingfisher), whose excellent horror novel A House With Good Bones appeared in late March, and whose thoroughly original imagining of the Sleeping Beauty story Thornhedge, is forthcoming in August. We also touch upon some of her … Continue reading Episode 629: Ursula Vernon and A Story with Good Bones →
Returning after a brief hiatus, Coode Street welcomes the wonderful multiple award-winning Sarah Pinsker, whose new collection Lost Places has just been published by Small Beer Press, and includes the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning “Where Oaken Hearts do Gather.” We touch upon her career as both story writer and novelist, the relationship of her … Continue reading Episode 628: Sarah Pinsker and Lost Places →
This week, Jonathan and Gary talk with Kelly Link, whose new collection White Cat, Black Dog is already showing up on bestseller lists. It’s her first themed collection, with each of the seven stories linked to a particular fairy tale. We also touch upon several writers whose work has been important to Kelly, including Joanna … Continue reading Episode 627: Kelly Link for the love of a good book →
It’s awards season again (or maybe still), so Jonathan and Gary take a moment to remind everyone of the deadlines for nominating candidates for Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards, and to discuss briefly a proposal to add a one-time category of “Best Fantasy Novel” to the Hugos at the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon. They … Continue reading Episode 626: Awards season, British criticism and more →
This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by World Fantasy and Newbery Award winner Kelly Barnhill, whose When Women Were Dragons was one of last year’s outstanding fantasy novels. We talk about her just-published The Crane Husband, which powerfully combines aspects of the classic fairy tale, science fiction, horror, and coming-of-age tale. We touch upon … Continue reading Episode 625: Kelly Barnhill and the Mind of a Writer →
2022 was a year when I edited two original anthologies, five novellas published by Tordocom, eight of Tor.com’s short stories, and acted as reviews editor for Locus for the 20th consecutive year. As a podcaster, we managed a total of 50 episodes, including the Coode Street Advent Calendar, which was fun. Fiction edited in 2022 … Continue reading Awards eligibility – 2022 →
We are always casting around for inspiration. After getting ChatGPT to provide a new introduction for the podcast, Gary and Jonathan kick off a discussion about the health of the short fiction field, the scope and variety of short story collections due to be published in 2023, and share some (okay, many) thoughts on the … Continue reading Coode Street 624: On short fiction →
This week, in our more-or-less annual discussion of the Locus Recommended Reading List, we are delighted to be joined by Locus Editor-in-Chief Liza Groen Trombi. We talk about the purpose of the list, how it has changed over the years, how books or stories get on the list, and a few thorny questions about how … Continue reading Episode 623: The 2022 Locus Recommended Reading List →
It’s not been that long since they last discussed it, but this week Jonathan and Gary return to the question of space opera, new space opera, and what contemporary SF authors might make of the concept. Is space opera the core narrative of SF, as Jonathan suggests, or only one of them? What are its … Continue reading Episode 622: More about space opera →
On paper, it was a good weekend. Saturday I took the youngest out to Costco to pick up some things for her short film shoot that’s happening next week. We then stopped at Whisked the Right Wei, one of the better patisseries in Perth, and got coffee at a Kwik drive-through. I then took the … Continue reading Weekend of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth →
I had a fairly quiet weekend by my standards. I had a Locus Board Meeting at 7 am, which is an ungodly hour for something like that, but the only time really to get everyone involved together. We talked about many things, including how Locus can really use your help and support. It was also … Continue reading And that was the weekend that was, that was →
The future is not evenly distributed. I’m no longer surprised that when Gary Wolfe and I try to talk to people for the podcast they simply don’t have the internet connectivity to record as we usually do. Landline recording is always a bit fiddly, and just became fiddlier because the Skype add-on (Call Recorder) I used … Continue reading Uneven distribution →
Garth Nix’s 2021 novel The Left-Handed Booksellers of London was a delight in a challenging year, a compelling tale of mythic Britain filled with terrible danger and the intriguing magic of the eponymous booksellers. Although it was far more than that, it felt like comfort food right when you needed it most. This coming May … Continue reading First book of the year… →
To kick off 2023, Jonathan and Gary share their lists of the books that they’re looking forward to reading in 2023. They mention a lot of forthcoming titles, ranging books from old masters like Peter S. Beagle, Howard Waldrop, Joanna Russ, Gene Wolfe, and Connie Willis to newer writers like Samit Basu, Vajra Chandrasekera, Alix … Continue reading Episode 621: Coode Street’s Books for Look Forward to in 2023 →
I might need a haircut and look a million years old in this photo, and the chair I’m sitting on might be bloody uncomfortable, but it’s the weekend, so let’s have at it! Today was spent working, editing (a novella called “On Clan Business”, trying to get some stuff finished, and mostly falling behind. It … Continue reading Cusp of the weekend →
This morning feels like a million years ago. Had a fairly solid night’s sleep and woke around 5-ish. Daughter was awake so we went down to Mt Lawley to get the mail before home for me, at least to the day job. While daughter had issues with a film project that caused her great anxiety, … Continue reading At home →
Today was the first day back at the day job after three weeks or so off. Up at 5am, S had been up all night and wanted a lift, so off at the usual time with mum for coffee and catch up in Mt Lawley. From there, in to the city and to the office. … Continue reading First day back →
Well, another less-than-great night’s sleep. Awake at 4.45am and didn’t get back to sleep, so I sat down with a cup of coffee and spent two or three hours editing. Just catching up on stuff. The family started to appear around 8 am, which was nice. Around 9 am Jess, Sophie, and I headed over … Continue reading The day after New Year’s →
Another probably ill-fated attempt to restore the old diary-taking muscles I developed when blogging was still a thing. Let’s see how we go. Last night was a quiet one. The girls and I dropped around at my mum’s to have a quick glass of champagne and to wish her a Happy New Year (far too … Continue reading New Year’s Day →
I am ridiculously sentimental and have a real weakness for silly and romantic things. Christmas has always been a favourite time of the year, even though it only seems to become more stressful and complicated with time. One thing I really love is a good Christmas song, and so I thought that since this is … Continue reading Top 5 Christmas songs →
There’s Christmas and then there’s Krampus. Here at Coode Street, there’s nothing quite like a little bit more, and as a very special holiday bonus Gary sat down with the wonderful M. Rickert to talk about what she’d been reading, what she’d recommend, and her fabulous Krampus tale, Lucky Girl, one of our favourites and … Continue reading Episode 620: A Very Coode Street Advent Bonus: M. Rickert →
And that’s a wrap. Time to hang up the headphones and take a short break. The Coode Street Podcast is going on hiatus for the remainder of 2022 and will return early in 2023. Just before the Gershwin Room closes for the holidays, though, Gary and Jonathan take a moment to chat about the Advent … Continue reading Episode 619: And Happy Holidays to all! →
And so we come to the final episode of the 2022 Coode Street Advent Calendar. Gary sits down to chat with a dear friend of the podcast, Elizabeth Hand, about what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, her holiday recommendations, her own classic Christmas story, “Chip Crockett’s Christmas Carol“, and her fabulous new novel Hokolua … Continue reading Episode 618: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Elizabeth Hand →
Way back in March 2020 we sat down with N.K. Jemisin to talk about her then-new fantasy novel, The City We Became. It was great. Then we had a whole pandemic, so we thought we’d check in to see how things are going. The holidays are literally upon us and Jonathan and Nora chat about … Continue reading Episode 617: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: N K Jemisin →
We spoke with Tochi Onyebuchi back in 2020 as part of “Ten Minutes with…“, when his award-winning novella Riot Baby was still new in the world. Since then Tochi’s been busy but has still managed to deliver another incredible novel, this time Goliath. Today Jonathan and Tochi discuss what he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, … Continue reading Episode 616: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Tochi Onyebuchi →
We are at the end of the year as I write this and I’m beginning to throw together a list of books coming out in 2023 that I’m interested in reading. This list will change and evolve over time, but this is a start at least. Blade of Dream, Daniel Abraham The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, … Continue reading Books to look forward to in 2023 →
Although Nghi Vo published her first short story all the way back in 2007, it’s only been in the last five years that she’s really grabbed everyone’s attention, first with the ‘Singing Hills’ cycle of novellas, then with her stunning debut novel, The Chosen and the Beautiful. This year she has two books among the … Continue reading Episode 615: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Nghi Vo →
There are friends of the Podcast and then there’s family. We’ve been talking to the great and glorious John Clute — writer, critic, encyclopedist, and more — since 2010. Whether it’s been about events at the SF Encyclopedia, happenings in SF, or some other thing, he has always been warm, witty, and wise. Today Gary … Continue reading Episode 614: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: John Clute →
Depending on where you are in the world the weather is either turning chilly or it’s becoming warm and sunny, but either way, it’s not long till the end of our Advent Calendar. Today Gary talks to Naseem Jamnia about what they’ve been reading, what they’d recommend, and their exciting new novella, The Bruising of … Continue reading Episode 613: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Naseem Jamnia →
John Kessel has long been a favourite of the podcast. We spoke to him in July about his major new retrospective short story collection, The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, so it’s no real surprise that he’s part of our Advent Calendar. Today Gary had the pleasure of calling John and chatting about what he’s … Continue reading Episode 612: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: John Kessel →
With a week left to go in the Advent Calendar, Jonathan sits down with Neon Yang to discuss what they’ve been reading, what they’ve read that they’d recommend, their holiday recommendations, and their exciting debut novel, space opera The Genesis of Misery! As always, our thanks to Neon, and we hope you enjoy the episode!
The Coode Street Advent Calendar rolls on through December and today Gary sits down with Shirley Jackson and Locus Award nominee Richard Butner to discuss what he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, his holiday reads, and his wonderful new collection, The Adventurists. As always, our thanks to Richard for making time to talk to us, … Continue reading Episode 610: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Richard Butner →
We’re halfway through December and more than halfway through our Advent Calendar. Today Gary sits down with one of the most interesting and diversely creative writers working in science fiction today, Lavie Tidhar, about his new novels Neom and Maror, his many other projects, as well as what he’s been reading lately and would recommend. … Continue reading Episode 609: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Lavie Tidhar →
Aurora award winner Sarah Tolmie chats with Gary about what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, her holiday recommendations, and her fabulous new novella All the Horses of Iceland (Tordotcom), which was one of our favourite books of the year. As always, we’d like to thank Sarah for making the time to talk to us, … Continue reading Episode 608: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Sarah Tolmie →
As we move closer and closer to the end of the Advent Calendar, Jonathan sits down with good friend of the podcast Christopher Rowe to discuss what he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, his holiday reads, and what he’s been working on, including his wonderful new novella These Prisoning Hills, which came out earlier this year. … Continue reading Episode 607: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Christopher Rowe →
And for the sixteenth day of the Advent Calendar, something a little special. Today Jonathan talks to the delightful C.S.E Cooney about what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, her holiday recommendations, and her absolutely wonderful new novel Saint Death’s Daughter and collection Dark Breakers. As always, our thanks to Clare for making the time … Continue reading Episode 606: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: C S E Cooney →
The Advent Calendar rolls on as we move through the holidays towards year’s end. Today Jonathan calls up good friend of the podcast and all-round wonderful person Alix E. Harrow to talk about what she’s been reading (lots!), what she’d recommend (also lots!), if she has any favourite holiday reads (yes!), and what she had … Continue reading Episode 605: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Alix E. Harrow →
Hugo and Nebula Award winner Charlie Jane Anders joins Gary for the 14th instalment of the Advent Calendar to discuss what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, her favourite holiday reads, and her fabulous new novel, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, the latest in her new Unstoppable young adult space opera series. As always, our thanks to … Continue reading Episode 604: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Charlie Jane Anders →
With the Coode Street Advent Calendar now in its second half, Gary sits down with the terrific Stephanie Feldman, the author of Who Will Speak for America? and Angel of Losses, to talk about what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, and her fabulous new novel, Saturnalia. As always, our thanks to Stephanie, and we hope … Continue reading Episode 603: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Stephanie Feldman →
As we get towards day 12 and the halfway mark of the Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls up Canada and talks to the always fabulous Kelly Robson about what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, what she’s working on, and her latest book, lesbian stoner comedy High Times in the Low Parliament , a book that … Continue reading Episode 602: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Kelly Robson →
Some things make sense when you find out where they began. Six started life as a show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2017, and that seems exactly right now that I’ve seen it. It’s short, punchy, fun, and has a fairly solid single concept it carries through. So, what is it? Six is a 75-minute … Continue reading Six at Burswood – 6 December 2022 →
The holidays are in full swing. Hopefully, everyone is on top of their seasonal shopping and ready to relax and have fun. But if not, we can help. Today Gary sits down with Liz Williams, the award-winning author of Comet Weather, Blackthorn Winter, and the recently released Embertide, to discuss what Liz has been reading, … Continue reading Episode 601: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Liz Williams →
It’s fitting that the tenth day of the Advent Calendar, which is also the 600th (!!) official episode of The Coode Street Podcast, should feature a dear friend, Guy Gavriel Kay, who chats with Jonathan about what he’s been reading lately, what he might recommend, his wonderful book All the Seas of the World, and … Continue reading Episode 600: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Guy Gavriel Kay →
I want to build up my own notes on space opera, which I have been thinking about. At the moment I don’t have a definition for it, but I do have some basic conditions for a work to be considered space opera. These are that: we are in space – the action must take place … Continue reading Towards space opera… →
As we move through the first week of December and into day nine of the Advent Calendar series, Gary spends some time chatting with the incredible Rachel Swirsky about what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, what she reads on the holidays, what work she has coming out, and her fabulous science fiction novella January … Continue reading Episode 599: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Rachel Swirsky →
For the eighth day of the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Jonathan called Tamsyn Muir, author of the New York Time Bestselling ‘Locked Tomb’ series, to talk about her somewhat unexpected novel Nona the Ninth, what she’s been reading lately, what she’d recommend, and her thoughts on holiday reads. As always, we would like to thank … Continue reading Episode 598: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Tamsyn Muir →
Earlier this year we talked to the fabulous Kate Heartfield about her novel, The Embroidered Book. Now, for day seven of the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Gary chats with Kate about what she’s been reading, what she’d recommend, and her favourite holiday reads. As always, our thanks to Kate. We hope you enjoy the episode!
Day six of the Coode Street Advent Calendar sees Jonathan chatting with the incredible Sequoia Nagamatsu about what he’s been reading, what he’d recommend, what he might recommend for the holidays, and his fabulous debut novel, How High We Go in the Dark. As always, our thanks to Sequoia and we hope you enjoy the … Continue reading Episode 596: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Sequoia Nagamatsu →
I love anthologies. A lot. I could go on and on about them — the different types of anthologies, the editors, the stories. That’s why I edited Someone in Time:Tales of Time-Crossed Romance for Solaris Books, and fifty or so others along the way. I have passionate thoughts on year’s best anthologies, on David G. Hartwell … Continue reading Star Songs for an Ageing Primate, or My Personal Top 5 Anthologies →
The Coode Street Advent Calendar rolls into the fifth day, and this time Gary takes a little time to chat with the wonderful Sam J. Miller about his new novella, Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy, and his short story collection, Boys, Beasts & Men. There’s also, no doubt, some holiday chat with books and such being … Continue reading Episode 595: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Sam J. Miller →
For the fourth instalment of the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Jonathan called New Orleans to talk to exciting debut author Alex Jennings about how he was still envious about not having made it to the World Fantasy Convention there. The conversation also touched on what Alex had been reading, what they have coming out, and … Continue reading Episode 594: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Alex Jennings →
The third day of the Coode Street Advent Calendar sees Gary talking to long-time podcast favourite Aliette de Bodard about their year in reading and writing, their new novella, Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances, and the first ever Xuya universe novel, The Red Scholar’s Wake. As always, we hope you enjoy the conversation!
For the second day of the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Jonathan sits down to chat with the delightful Kelly Barnhill, whose novels When Women Were Dragons and The Ogress and the Orphans came out this year. Both are highly recommended. Enjoy!
The end of the year is fast approaching, and this year the Coode Street Podcast is doing something a little different. We’ve invited 24 creators of some of this year’s best and most interesting books to join us for ten minutes or so to talk about what they’re reading now, their favourite holiday reads, what … Continue reading Episode 591: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Nicola Griffith →
With the end of the year almost upon us, Coode Street was looking for a way to celebrate the books we read and loved during 2022. We also wanted to help you find something great to read for yourself or for someone close to you. And so the 2022 Coode Street Advent Calendar was born! … Continue reading Episode 590: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2022 →
The end of the year is nigh. Jonathan and Gary are working on their year-end recommended reading, and many of us are working on our holiday shopping lists. It’s that magical time of the year, for many. And so, as a little bonus, the Coode Street team are reviving the Ten-Minutes with… format and talking … Continue reading Episode 589: Announcing a Coode Street Advent Calendar →
With Gary about to leave for the World Fantasy Convention to be held in New Orleans next week, and with Jonathan in the process of assembling anthologies on the most recent iterations of space opera, we spend most of our time discussing the characteristics, history, and too-common misuse of that venerable term. While we do … Continue reading Episode 588: Let’s Talk About Space (Opera), Baybee… →
This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by the wonderful Eileen Gunn, whose Night Shift Plus… is the latest volume in PM Press’s ongoing series of “Outspoken Authors” collections, which combine fiction and nonfiction with an author interview by series editor Terry Bisson. We discuss Eileen’s stories, her essays on Ursula K. Le Guin, Carol … Continue reading Episode 587: Eileen Gunn and the Night Shift →
With the fall season of Coode Street underway, Jonathan and Gary sit down with the brilliant Ray Nayler, whose first novel The Mountain in the Sea has just been published. We touch upon the many themes of the novel, from the problems of alien communication to artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousness, the ethics of … Continue reading Episode 586: Ray Nayler and Breaking Down Communicating →
Last Tuesday I arrived at Perth Airport, ‘fresh’ from a really enjoyable trip to the United States. During the two weeks I spent in Chicago and San Francisco, I got the chance to renew old friendships and make new ones. I got to enjoy Chicon 8, to see a bit more of Chicago, and basically … Continue reading Mini adventure →
After far too many weeks of an unscheduled summer hiatus, Jonathan and Gary are back with a discussion of the recent Worldcon, which felt in many ways like a return to classic Worldcon form. But then we amble into a discussion that ranges from whether there are too many awards in SF to the question … Continue reading Episode 585: Caution – May Contain Traces of Kitten →
For the handful of listeners who might be nostalgic for those earlier Coode Streets which were mostly just disorganized rambles, this week we return to form—or lack of form, as the case may be. We do mention Rich Horton’s recent re-reads of pre-Hugo SF classics, and his contention that 1953 was a high point in … Continue reading Episode 584: Back on the ramble →
This week we’re joined by the distinguished, multiple award-winning John Kessel, whose collection The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel is recently out from Subterranean Press, representing John’s four-decade career as an SF writer, teacher, editor, scholar, and workshop leader. We touch upon not only his short fiction, but novels like The … Continue reading Episode 583: John Kessel and a Life in Science Fiction →
For the first week in July, we’re joined by Nebula Award winner Rachel Swirsky, whose novella January Fifteenth ( just out from Tordotcom) is a provocative exploration of the idea of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as it might play out in the lives of four women in very different circumstances. We touch upon Rachel’s decision to … Continue reading Episode 582: Rachel Swirsky and the Universality of Caring →
This week, Jonathan and Gary are delighted to chat with Kate Heartfield, whose thoroughly engrossing historical fantasy The Embroidered Book, already a bestseller in the UK and Canada, has just been published in the United States. We talk about the research that went into her fascinating tale of the sisters Antoine and Charlotte, who grew … Continue reading Episode 581: Kate Heartfield and The Embroidered Book →
This week, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the brilliant Christopher Rowe, whose novella These Prisoning Hills appears next week from Tordotcom, revisiting the wonderful and bizarre world first introduced in his earlier stories “The Voluntary State” and “The Border State.” We cover quite a bit of territory, ranging from Christopher’s own influences, what it … Continue reading Episode 580: Christopher Rowe and the Instrumentality of Influence →
I thought I would get something useful done – at least get some reading done – but this week has been a bleurgh. After my previous Covid post I had a few pretty unpleasant moments, but everything now is similar to a mild-ish case of the flu. I still am yet to decide about voting. … Continue reading Ugh! This week… →
I have now completed reviewing submissions for The Book of Witches. There were some wonderful stories sent to me, and after a lot of thought and angst, I was able to winnow them down to a final list of three. I’ve written to the writers of those stories and am waiting to finalise agreements with … Continue reading Update: The Book of Witches →
I really didn’t seriously think I was going to get COVID anytime soon. Most of the people around me weren’t getting it, and it felt a bit distant. Then the youngest came up with a positive test last week. She went off to hide in her room, and we started being super careful about masking … Continue reading And then I got COVID →
Earlier this week, we were all stunned by the news of the tragic death of World Fantasy Life Achievement Award winner Patricia McKillip, whose luminous works have influenced and moved generations of readers and writers for nearly half a century. Jonathan and Gary are joined by McKillip’s longtime friend, Ellen Kushner, herself a winner of … Continue reading Episode 579: Remembering Patricia A. McKillip →
Thank you again to everyone who submitted work to the open reading period for The Book of Witches. My apologies for taking so long to respond to everyone. I have now written to all of the writers whose stories sadly did not make the book. There were so many of them, and they were all great, … Continue reading The Book of Witches – Update →
There are all sorts of interesting anthologies coming out this year. I’ve edited two – Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance and Tomorrow’s Parties – but there are a lot of great choices. I am putting lists together for myself, just to keep track. Zoraida Córdova’s anthology of Latin American YA SF is already … Continue reading Five anthologies to look out for… →
In October 2018 we went looking for a new cat. Sophie found the slightly wild and temperamental Gigi somewhere south of the river, and I think mostly thought she was pretty, and said she should come home with us. Jessica, who is phobic about animals, said she was up for it. Sophie’s birthday was approaching, … Continue reading Cat people →
Didn’t get the additional exercise on Tuesday so some ground to make up on Wednesday. I did watch a handful of episodes of Made for Love and am hooked. The copy of Le Guin’s The Found and the Lost arrived too. Sadly, Amazon’s poor packaging meant the dustjacket was slightly torn, so that’s not so … Continue reading More on Wednesday →
Having bounced hard off Apple’s Severance, which I found a deeply unhappy viewing experience, I’ve enjoyed the first two episodes of Made for Love much more. The similarities may not be obvious, but one is a tech-bro horror/fantasy about work and the other is a tech-bro horror/fantasy about love and relationships. It’s not actually funny, but … Continue reading Another day →
The pandemic progresses. With the recent changes to masking rules in Western Australia, my day job employer is calling us back to work. We’ve been working from home on and off for a while but were at home full-time for the past six weeks or so. Today (Monday) is the end of that. We’re now … Continue reading Monday morning, again →
A bit of a nothing day, in some ways. I did get some domestic chores done, and I made headway on the tax paperwork. There’s nothing untoward there, but it always manages to make me at least mildly anxious. I’ll peck away at it for the next few days and then hand it over to … Continue reading And the rest of the day →
This week’s discussion begins with Gary wondering about what he tentatively calls the use of absurdism in some recent novels, mentioning Kelly Barnhill’s When Women Were Dragons and Sunyi Dean’s forthcoming The Book Eaters, each of which features a powerful central metaphor that refuses to resolve itself into traditional SF or fantasy systems—somewhat like the old Theatre of … Continue reading Episode 578: Kind of dull, but it’s something →
A quick update. I am running behind on The Book of Witches. I hope to have the acceptances for the open-reading period done in the next week, and then will get back to everyone. I have some wonderful stories come in, both from the open reading period and from authors who I have solicited work … Continue reading The Book of Witches →
It’s the first day of a new month and I’m going to try to use that as a kick-off for a bit of a fresh start. I need to exercise, organise, and work more if 2022 is going to work out. I also need to read more, watch less, and just do things. Today is … Continue reading May and on anon… →
It’s only been a week since Jonathan and Gary sat down to chat with Nicola Griffith about her new book, Spear, but in a bid to get back on schedule, they took a moment to record a new episode for the coming long weekend. They kick off chatting about travel during the pandemic and the … Continue reading Episode 577: Books, classics, and collecting →
This time out, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the brilliant Nicola Griffith, whose Spear, out this month, revisits Arthurian tales from an entirely new perspective. We chat about how the novel came about, Arthurian literature as fan fiction, the wonderful illustrations by Rovina Cai, and what it was like to record the audiobook. We … Continue reading Episode 576: Nicola Griffith and Spear →
With Gary just back from ICFA in Florida, he discussed whether this will really be the year of re-emergence, with both the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago and World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans in the offing. This led, as it does, to discussion of the Hugos, whether small categories with few nominations should … Continue reading Episode 575: New books, old readers, and such →
This is just to confirm that the open submission period for The Book of Witches closed at 5.00 pm today, Western Australian time. Thank you to everyone who submitted. Unfortunately, any submissions arriving after 5.00 pm cannot be considered.
After reminding listeners that the deadline for Hugo nominations is fast approaching on March 15 (and reminding them once again of the eligibility of this podcast for Best Fancast and of Jonathan for Best Editor, Short Form), we move on to the much-discussed, record-setting Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter, and the question of whether it really matters … Continue reading Episode 574: Kickstarters, communities, and more →
This week, in our more-or-less annual discussion of the Locus Recommended Reading List, we are delighted to be joined by Locus Editor-in-Chief Liza Groen Trombi. We talk about the purpose of the list, how it has changed over the years, how books or stories get on the list, and a few thorny questions about how … Continue reading Episode 573: The 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List →
This week (episode 3 of season 13) we return to our tradition of almost entirely unstructured rambling. Jonathan and Gary consider such questions as to whether a novel can be good SF, but not much good in literary terms, or a good literary novel not much good as SF. While we recognize that many popular … Continue reading Episode 572: Genre, change, and the passage of time →
This coming May the incredible team at Rebellion Publishing will release my next book, Someone in Time: Tales of Timecrossed Romance. It’s a collection of stories about love and romance through time, inspired by some of my favourite stories. The table of contents is below. You can pre-order the paperback here and the ebook here. … Continue reading Someone in Time: Tales of Timecrossed Romance – Cover and table of contents →
This week Jonathan and Gary are back, a little early, to talk about the annual science fiction calendar, the awards season, how there are so many awards, what books they’re reading, and what books they’ve worked on. Oh, and for a short moment, they touch on movies and TV too. All in all, episode two … Continue reading Episode 571: The New Year and New Books →
Welcome to The Coode Street Podcast. With 2021 barely in the rearview mirror, it’s time to kick off season 13 with a brand new episode. A little over a month ago we sat down with James Bradley, Alix E. Harrow, and Ian Mond to discuss 2021: The Year in Review in Episode 568. At the … Continue reading Episode 570: Coode Street’s Books to Look for in 2022 →
Following on from the award-winning success of The Book of Dragons, Harper Voyager will publish an exciting new anthology, The Book of Witches, edited by Jonathan Strahan in the Fall of 2023. Like The Book of Dragons, The Book of Witches will be a big, inclusive, illustrated anthology of fiction and poetry, this time looking at “witches” (more specifically … Continue reading Open submission period for BIPOC* writers for The Book of Witches →
2021 was a year. COVID played hell with production and publication, and things that might have succeeded didn’t. That impacted books of mine, like 2020s Made to Order, and it means books that I had hoped would come out in 2021 did not. Still, it was a busy year and with the end of the … Continue reading Awards Eligibility – 2021 →
The Coode Street Podcast kicked off in May 2010. Over the next 568 episodes Jonathan and Gary, and far too many friends of the podcast to be named here individually, talked about a shared love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in all of their many forms. Just a week ago, the members of the … Continue reading Episode 569: A Thank You for Supporting Us for So Long →
The holiday season is upon us, another strange, unforgettable year is almost done, and here at Coode Street it’s time for our annual gift guide/year in review, where we recommend some books we loved during the year. This time out we invited special guests and good friends James Bradley, Alix E. Harrow, and Ian Mond … Continue reading Episode 568: A Very Coode Street Gift Guide Roundtable →
Welcome to episode 25 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary sit down with the very talented and extremely busy Sheree Renée Thomas to discuss her award-winning collection Nine Bar Blues, her first year editing the venerable Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, the lasting impact of her Dark … Continue reading Episode 567: Sheree Renée Thomas and science fiction →
Welcome to episode 24 of Season 12 of the Coode Street Podcast. As the year draws to a close and winter comes to Chicago and summer to Perth, Gary and Jonathan sit down for an unexpected and unplanned conversation about life achievement awards and their meaningfulness, a brief foreshadowing of a discussion about interrogating the … Continue reading Episode 566: On life achievement, awards, and more →
Welcome to episode 23 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week, after a brief and mostly irrelevant discussion of whether the proposition that Ray Bradbury as the quintessential October writer means anything at all outside North America, Jonathan and Gary actually try to focus on an important question: whether posthumous publications actually … Continue reading Episode 565: On work published after the author‘s death →
Welcome to episode 22 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. In this episode, Gary and Jonathan talk to Oghenechovwe Ekpeki, author of the Otherwise Award-winning and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, British SF Award, and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon”, editor of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, and co-editor with … Continue reading Episode 564: Oghenechovwe Ekpeki and African Speculative Fiction →
Welcome to episode 21 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast.Once again, it’s just Jonathan and Gary, talking about the various roles anthologies have played in the history of science fiction and how that role may be different these days, the nominees and winners of the 2021 Ignyte Awards from FIYAHCON 2021, N.K. Jemisin … Continue reading Episode 563: A Ramble in the Wilderness →
Welcome to episode 20 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. It’s just Jonathan and Gary again, eventually circling around an interesting question raised by Andrew Liptak in Transfer Orbit concerning the question of reading the right book at the right time, rather than being chained to the constant parade of new books and … Continue reading Episode 562: Reading, reviewing, and an old question answered →
Welcome to episode 19 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary return, sans guests or much of a plan. They do manage to touch upon a number of significant issues, such as the work of newly minted World Fantasy Life Achievement winner Howard Waldrop, whether Waldrop could be … Continue reading Episode 561: Science fiction, influence, and more →
No reading this week at all, which is not great. Sleeping is very poor, which is also not great. Spent a few nights in a hotel so we could get through painting parts of the house, which was, no fault of the hotel, not great. Today, new carpet in one room and some cleaning and … Continue reading Saturday morning, back at home, still in the endless pandemic →
What a discombobulated day today has been. This is the fourth day of painting, the second day staying in a hotel, and the second day off work. All is in chaos, though that overstates it. The painting looks great, but smells less great. The mess is all-pervasive because there’s painting done here and there, and … Continue reading Thursday after, during the current pandemic… →
Well, it’s a week of upset and change here. We’ve basically neglected most basic change and maintenance at home since we moved in, way back in 2002, and it’s past time for that to end. So this week we have a painter in the house – just a bedroom, the bathroom, and some ceilings. The … Continue reading Change and chassis, early Wednesday, same Pandemic →
Well, it doesn’t look like blogging every day is a thing, though I am planning to keep to it. Another night’s poor sleep, after what was a pretty good weekend. Didn’t do much reading, but did pitch a new book, have wine and chat at Keira’s (which was a highlight of the weekend), see friends … Continue reading Early Monday morning, same pandemic →
Welcome to episode 18 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the wonderful Arkady Martine, author of the Hugo-winning A Memory Called Empire and its equally remarkable sequel A Desolation Called Peace. We touch upon how her research as an academic historian helped shape her … Continue reading Episode 560: Arkady Martine and Memories of Empire →
I hurt my left foot a while ago. I thought it had healed up just find, but the last day or two – not great. And then sleeping. Sleeping these days is weird too. Had a terrible night’s sleep the night before last and a below par, though better, one last night. Hopefully heading in … Continue reading Underslept, early on a Thursday (not much later in), the same pandemic →
Just a quick note. Should the question arise, I’m currently reading Tade Thompson’s fifth novel, Far from the Light of Heaven, his first book-length work since completing the Wormwood trilogy. The publisher describes the book like this: A tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from a rising giant … Continue reading Reading again, early August… →
So sometimes I wake up at 1.30am or so, and sometimes I cannot get back to sleep. Today is the morning after one of those nights. I’m guessing I got about four hours sleep, which is enough to be barely functional. No super reason for it, but it’s gonna be a long-ish day. I’ll add, … Continue reading Mad hours, Wednesday, later in the P— →
I’m seeing if I can work up a functional review of The Hood. Not written one of those since I stopped reviewing for Locus back in 2002 or so. I used to kid myself that I’d go back to it, but other things overran that. Today was all about the day job, some project work, … Continue reading Time slipping away, on a Tuesday, round about the same time in the pandemic →
Just wrote this elsewhere on social media: This is a strange time. Here in Perth, even for winter, it’s cold and wet. The east coast of Australian is locked down and Delta rages. I find myself rather nervously watching that and wondering when/if it will impact here. People are watching Olympics and making/plans and we’re … Continue reading The next day, early in morning, exiting a polder, same pandemic →
The cat is outside and I’ve had my mandated minimum five hours sleep, which seems what this second COVID year is allowing me right now. I hope to get back to something a bit more usual for me, but who knows? I’m awake, there’s a day job to go to, and that’s about that. Although … Continue reading Very early morning Monday, not sleeping, same pandemic →
Today has not been the productive day I’d hoped, but it wasn’t a total loss. Having been a bit under the weather, I rescheduled social commitments, and then recorded a new episode of the podcast. It talks a little about the Lavie Tidhar novel we’re both reading, about the forthcoming talk with Arkady Martine we … Continue reading Sunday evening, just before dinner, a few hours later in the same pandemic →
Welcome to episode 17 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. For those very few of you who might be wondering what Jonathan and Gary ramble on about when they’re not recording or talking to guests, here’s a taste—especially if you make it all the way to the last ten minutes or so, when … Continue reading Episode 559: Partway through the pandemic, a ramble →
To bed late after a whisky too many and now a healthy distance into The Hood. The goombahs have made an appearance. I’ll see what happens next. It’s a rainy morning here, too, very windy. Due to do some social stuff but might hang home. Podcasting is possible. A painter is coming to discuss painting … Continue reading Too early on Sunday, a little later in the same pandemic →
Progressing into The Hood… The story has kicked in. The Hood is a re-wilding, a bringing back of the pagan and the profane to The Matter of Britain. Full of life and blood and sex and death.https://t.co/ynhBRxlmqs — JonathanStrahan (Now fully vaccinated) (@JonathanStrahan) July 31, 2021
My Meniere’s disease is acting up. The hearing in my left ear is particularly poor right now and I have pressure in both ears (which I’ve not had for a while). Not sure if it’s a COVID thing, a lack of sleep thing, or something else. Anyhow, it’s leaving me just wanting to stare out … Continue reading That same Saturday, same pandemic, after a visit to Bunnings… →
These entries are all, so far, just notes to me really. I don’t think I’ve left on any syndication, but the point is to get me a little more focussed on work and stuff, and hopefully this will nudge me. Anyway, another Saturday morning. A first cup of coffee. Maybe a mild sore throat, possibly … Continue reading Saturday morning, just a little later in the same pandemic →
No reading yet. A long-ish feeling day at the day job, aware of other tasks to be settled. Home, tired and underslept, but took the family out for an okay pasta dinner in the nearby Swan Valley. Meniere’s played up mightily, but that’s probably self-inflicted. Made me think of heading for bed early, but instead… … Continue reading Later in the evening, Friday, sometime during the pandemic →
It might seem odd to look back to blogging for a way to focus, but I’m going to try. I used to blog a lot, many years ago, but social media and so on really has broken that down for me. I spend too long on other platforms, and I find them less satisfying. Since … Continue reading Early Friday morning, sometime during the pandemic →
Welcome to episode 16 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week, Jonathan and Gary chat with the marvellous M. Rickert, whose new novel The Shipbuilder of Bellfaerie is out next week from Undertow Publications. We touch upon how the novel draws from traditions as varied as nautical legends, mysteries, and even Frankenstein, … Continue reading Episode 558: M. Rickert and The Shipbuilder of Bellfaerie →
Welcome to episode 15 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. For the first time in more than two months, it’s just Jonathan and Gary again, talking about science fiction of the anthropocene, whether science fiction has shifted its “consensus future” away from the optimism of past eras, the notion that forms such as … Continue reading Episode 557: All This and Dystopia Too →
Welcome to episode 14 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by multiple award-winning author and editor Lavie Tidhar to discuss his brand new anthology, The Best of World SF: Vol 1, his years working to bring SF from around the world to North American and UK … Continue reading Episode 556: Lavie Tidhar and a World of Science Fiction →
Welcome to episode 13 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by the wonderful Catherynne M. Valente to talk about her new book The Past is Red, which continues the tale of Tetley Abednego, first introduced to readers in the Sturgeon Award-winning “The Future is Blue” from … Continue reading Episode 555: Catherynne M. Valente and Telling Tales →
Welcome to episode 12 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by the remarkable Zen Cho, whose new novel Black Water Sister will be followed later this summer by an expanded version of her Crawford Award-winning collection Spirits Abroad from Small Beer Press. We touch upon issues … Continue reading Episode 554: Zen Cho and Finding Black Water Sister →
Welcome to episode 11 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by Daryl Gregory, whose new novella The Album of Dr. Moreau is an improbable but delightful mashup of H.G. Wells, boy bands, Las Vegas, and locked-room murder mysteries. We discuss the challenges of attempting so much at … Continue reading Episode 553: Daryl Gregory and The Album of Doctor Moreau →
Welcome to episode 10 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary have a delightful conversation with Nghi Vo, whose The Empress of Salt and Fortune won this year’s Crawford Award and is a Hugo finalist, and whose debut novel The Chosen and the Beautiful, a fantastical revisioning of The Great Gatsby with a queer, Asian … Continue reading Episode 552: Nghi Vo and The Chosen and the Beautiful →
Welcome to episode 9 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by Nebula and Philip K. Dick award-winning author and musician Sarah Pinsker, whose new novel We Are Satellites is out this week. We touch upon the actual science of brain implants which served as background research … Continue reading Episode 551: Sarah Pinsker and We Are Satellites →
Welcome to episode 8 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary are joined by P. Djèlí Clark, whose novella Ring Shout has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards this year and whose first novel, A Master of Djinn, appears this month. \We touch upon themes … Continue reading Episode 550: P. Djèlí Clark and A Master of Djinn →
Welcome to episode 7 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary return to form with a classic ramble through a jumble of topics ranging from the postponement of this year’s Swancon in Perth (and a bit of trivia about an American Swanncon from decades ago); the possible effects of … Continue reading Episode 549: Lockdown, science fiction, and more →
Welcome to episode 6 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by the delightful Nebula and Aurora winning author Kelly Robson, whose first collection Alias Space and Other Stories has just been published by Subterranean Press. Kelly discusses life during lockdown in Toronto, the joys of becoming … Continue reading Episode 548: Kelly Robson and Alias Space →
Welcome to episode 5 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. After three weeks of unexcused absences, Jonathan and Gary return, just as the world starts re-emerging with the announcement that the Montreal World Fantasy Convention, at least at present, expects to host an in-person event in early November. That led us to return … Continue reading Episode 547: Nominating for the World Fantasy Awards →
With World Fantasy Awards nominations opening, I’ve been asked what I’ve worked on is eligible. Here’s a quick overview: Anthologies The Book of Dragons (HarperVoyager) Novella Prosper’s Demons, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom) The Tindalos Asset, Caitlin R. Kiernan (Tordotcom) The Order of Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho (Tordotcom) Short fiction (under 10,000 wds) Yuli, … Continue reading World Fantasy Awards eligibility →
Welcome to episode 4 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. Despite an unexpected glitch that caused Jonathan to disappear partway through, he and Gary are joined by Veronica Schanoes, whose Burning Girls and Other Stories is just out, with endorsements from writers and scholars as diverse as Karen Joy Fowler, Jack Zipes, Jane … Continue reading Episode 546:Veronica Schanoes and Burning Girls and Other Stories →
Welcome to episode 3 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week the brilliant Aliette de Bodard joins us from Paris to discuss her new Fireheart Tiger, which is already gathering stellar reviews, as well as the challenges of writing a complex romance with significant political themes, how much world-building is needed for … Continue reading Episode 545: Aliette de Bodard and Fireheart Tiger →
The cover and table of contents for The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 are out over at Tor.com. It’s my only book for 2021 so I hope you’ll check it out. You can find the pre-order information for the book here. The ToC is: “50 Things Every AI Working with Humans Should Know” by … Continue reading The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Volume 2 coming September! →
Last year Coode Street sat down with people from all over the world to talk about what they were reading, what they were up to, and how they were coping with strange times. We did it every day, which we probably never will again, and along the way found out it was fun and interesting … Continue reading Episode 544: Ten Minutes with Max Gladstone →
Welcome to episode 2 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week, in the second of our main season of twenty-six hour-long episodes, our hosts Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan talk to Locus Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Liza Groen Trombi and award-winning writer Daryl Gregory about the year in science fiction and fantasy. … Continue reading Episode 543: The Year in Review and Other Digressions →
Last year Coode Street sat down with people from all over the world to talk about what they were reading, what they were up to, and how they were coping with strange times. We did it every day, which we probably never will again, and along the way found out it was fun and interesting … Continue reading Episode 542: Ten Minutes with Jason Sizemore →
Welcome to Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This year we’re repeating our commitment to bring you at least twenty-six hour-long episodes where our hosts, Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan, talk about science fiction and stuff with little or no coherent purpose and occasionally interact with interesting people. There will also be additional … Continue reading Episode 541: John Clute and Science Fiction Repeating the Future →
It’s the end of the year and various awards will be open for nominations and so on soon. There is a lot of wonderful fiction out there and, having been busy during 2020, I’ve been lucky enough to help what I think are some really excellent works of fiction that I think are worthy of … Continue reading Awards Eligibility – 2020 →
The whole being an editor thing means that you sort of work 365 days a year and 9-5 is a bit meaningless. That said, in the interests of sanity I will be clocking off at the end of the day on Wednesday 23 December and won’t be clocking back on until Monday 27 December 2020. … Continue reading Interruption to service →
Since we’re as anxious as everyone else to finally escape 2020, this one is likely to be Jonathan and Gary’s final episode of the year, unless we think of something irresistible. We start by reminding long-time listeners (or explaining to some for the first time) where the Coode Street name comes from, then honouring major … Continue reading Episode 540: The Last Official One for 2020 →
We’re getting to the end of an extraordinary year and it’s almost time to shutter the podcast before a well-earned holiday break. But, before Gary and Jonathan close the door on the Gershwin Room for the last time for 2020, a special gift guide episode. There were no notes, no plans, no lists – just … Continue reading Episode 539: A Very Coode Street Gift Guide →
Jonathan and Gary continue their irregular 2020 schedule with a conversation with Charles Coleman Finlay, who for more than five years has carried on the grand tradition of editing The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Sheree Renée Thomas, who picks up the mantle as new editor beginning with the March/April 2021 issue. We talk … Continue reading Episode 538: Sheree Renée Thomas, Charles Coleman Finlay and F&SF →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and book lovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo and Nebula winner Charlie Jane Anders talks about some new books she’s been reading by Rebecca Roanhorse, Holly … Continue reading Episode 537: Ten Minutes with Charlie Jane Anders →
After spending a few minutes chatting about what it’s like to live in a relatively safe but relatively sealed-off environment—something Jonathan can experience in Western Australia, but something SFF has occasionally touched upon—your intrepid hosts venture into the questions raised by Time magazine’s much-discussed list of “The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time,” with … Continue reading Episode 536: Time for another list →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning writer Rebecca Roanhorse chats about living and working through lockdown in New Mexico, the … Continue reading Episode 535: Ten Minutes with Rebecca Roanhorse →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo Award-winning Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams talk about the early days of the pandemic in Manhattan, the challenges of finding … Continue reading Episode 534: Ten Minutes with Sheila Williams →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Multiple award-nominated novelist Paul Park discusses reading the Book of Mormon in preparation for his new novel, the challenges of … Continue reading Episode 533: Ten Minutes with Paul Park →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan chats with S. Qiouyi Lu about being highly prolific during the pandemic, the pleasures of immersive reading, reading … Continue reading Episode 532: Ten Minutes with S. Qiouyi Lu →
Jonathan and Gary are back with their usual laser-like focus on a single important topic–or maybe not. Starting at the recent release of the trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune, which has many of us looking back at Frank Herbert’s classic novel, they touch upon re-reading old favourites, books that are genuinely sui generis … Continue reading Episode 531: On reading and re-reading speculative fiction →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Award-winning critic and biographer Julie Phillips talks about listening to audiobooks while biking in Amsterdam, enjoying Martha Wells’s Murderbot series, … Continue reading Episode 530: Ten Minutes with Julie Phillips →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan calls up Tordotcom Publishing editor Ruoxi Chen to chat about revisiting all-time favourites and how re-reading can help … Continue reading Episode 529: Ten Minutes with Ruoxi Chen →
Coode Street has a long history of talking to Kim Stanley Robinson about the world and his work, starting back in 2011, continuing in our 200th episode in London, and on the publication of 2312, Aurora, and New York 2140, so we couldn’t pass up the chance to talk to him now. In what is … Continue reading Episode 528: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Madeleine E. Robins, author of the Sarah Tolerance historical mysteries, SF and fantasy, and historical novels, talks about starting her … Continue reading Episode 527: Ten Minutes with Madeleine E. Robins →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Nebula and Locus award-winning Linda Nagata talks about what life in Maui is like with almost no tourists, how audiobooks … Continue reading Episode 526: Ten Minutes with Linda Nagata →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Multiple award-nominee Benjamin Rosenbaum discusses the pandemic as seen from Switzerland, learning to write in his garden when cafes are … Continue reading Episode 525: Ten Minutes with Benjamin Rosenbaum →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Award-winning author, editor, and scholar Delia Sherman talks about reading old French newspapers and memoirs; the rewards of research; listening … Continue reading Episode 524: Ten Minutes with Delia Sherman →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Writer, professor, and Strange Horizons founder Mary Anne Mohanraj chats with Gary about launching a new cookbook just as everything … Continue reading Episode 523: Ten Minutes with Mary Anne Mohanraj →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Playwright, professor, director, and Carl Brandon and Otherwise-award winning writer Andrea Hairston talks with Gary about the necessity of reading … Continue reading Episode 522: Ten Minutes with Andrea Hairston →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. American Book Award winner Lisa Goldstein talks with Gary about her recent novel Ivory Apples, surviving California’s smoky air and … Continue reading Episode 521: Ten Minutes with Lisa Goldstein →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo, Astounding, and British Fantasy Award-winning Jeanette Ng joins Gary from northern England, discussing what it’s like to live near … Continue reading Episode 520: Ten Minutes with Jeannette Ng →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Crawford Award winner Stephanie Feldman joins Gary to talk about the unexpected complexities of virtual Kindergarten; writing about young adult … Continue reading Episode 519: Ten Minutes with Stephanie Feldman →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so chatting with exciting debut novelist Andrea Stewart about living and working through the … Continue reading Episode 518: Ten Minutes with Andrea Stewart →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan is joined by Aurealis Award-winning writer Jane Routley and they chat about how Jane’s coping with the Melbourne … Continue reading Episode 517: Ten Minutes with Jane Routley →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Science journalist, novelist and Hugo Award-winning podcaster Annalee Newitz joins Jonathan to chat about living and working in the San … Continue reading Episode 516: Ten Minutes with Annalee Newitz →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Multiple award-winning author, editor, narrator, and radio personality Ellen Kushner chats with Gary about moving back to New York; ordering … Continue reading Episode 515: Ten Minutes with Ellen Kushner →
For the first time since way back in March when they chatted with N.K. Jemisin, Jonathan and Gary are joined by a guest. This time the wonderful Alix E. Harrow, author of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy nominated The Ten Thousand Doors of January and the forthcoming The Once and Future Witches joins Jonathan … Continue reading Episode 514: Alix E. Harrow and The Once and Future Witches →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Multiple award-winning author, poet, and educator Candas Jane Dorsey talks with Gary about teaching writing online, how her communications students … Continue reading Episode 513: Ten Minutes with Candas Jane Dorsey →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan chats with exciting debut novelist Micaiah Johnson about the strangeness of lockdown in Nashville, struggling to work in … Continue reading Episode 512: Ten Minutes with Micaiah Johnson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Widely respected historical novelist (and very occasional SF or fantasy writer) Cecelia Holland talks with Gary about the smoky conditions … Continue reading Episode 511: Ten Minutes with Cecelia Holland →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan fires up Skype to talk to Chaz Brenchley about the strange challenges of these times, the comfort to … Continue reading Episode 510: Ten Minutes with Chaz Brenchley →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends some time chatting with Lev Grossman about living and working during the pandemic, spending more time than … Continue reading Episode 509: Ten Minutes with Lev Grossman →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Multiple World Fantasy Award winner Terri Windling joins Gary to discuss life in a rural English village, her current reading … Continue reading Episode 508: Ten Minutes with Terri Windling →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. World Fantasy Award winner Sheree Renée Thomas talks with Gary about old horror movies like Burnt Offerings and Trilogy of … Continue reading Episode 507: Ten Minutes with Sheree Renée Thomas →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. World Fantasy Award winner C.S.E. Cooney joins Gary to talk about the joys of rediscovering reading during these strange times; … Continue reading Episode 506: Ten Minutes with CSE Cooney →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Locus Award winner and Hugo and Nebula nominee Mimi Mondal and Gary K. Wolfe chat about gardening and cooking Indian … Continue reading Episode 505: Ten Minutes with Mimi Mondal →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer and scholar Veronica Schanoes joins Gary to talk about what lockdown is like with a 5-year-old … Continue reading Episode 504: Ten Minutes with Veronica Schanoes →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary talks with Hugo and Nebula Award winner Suzy McKee Charnas about the delights of a public library during lockdown, … Continue reading Episode 503: Ten Minutes with Suzy McKee Charnas →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo award-winning writer and longtime Locus editor Tim Pratt talks with Gary about serving on juries for two different awards … Continue reading Episode 502: Ten Minutes with Tim Pratt →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. One of China’s most widely-honoured SF writers, Chen Qiufan (or Stanley Chan, for English speakers and as a tribute to … Continue reading Episode 501: Ten Minutes with Chen Qiufan →
For their 500th episode (if you count the shorter “10 Minutes With” episodes they’ve been doing since March), Jonathan and Gary characteristically fail to achieve any sort of clear structure for the discussion but do return to some favourite themes. While we manage to avoid reopening the old canon of worms, we do talk about … Continue reading Episode 500: Second verse… →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Only recently back from several months in India, Vandana Singh joins Gary to talk about what experiencing the lockdown was … Continue reading Episode 499: Ten Minutes with Vandana Singh →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan gets to spend talking to one of New Zealand’s finest writers, Elizabeth Knox, who joins the conversation from … Continue reading Episode 498: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Knox →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Gary is joined by Crawford Award-winning and World Fantasy Award-nominated Swedish author Karin Tidbeck, discussing her remarkable 2010 Clarion … Continue reading Episode 497: Ten Minutes with Karin Tidbeck →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. World Fantasy Life Achievement winner John Crowley chats with Gary about his oddly prescient horror story “Spring Break” (which he … Continue reading Episode 496: Ten Minutes with John Crowley →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. World Fantasy Award Life Achievement recipient and WorldCon Guest of Honor Charles de Lint joins Jonathan to discuss living, working, … Continue reading Episode 495: Ten Minutes with Charles de Lint →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. One of the UK’s most distinguished novelists, Christopher Priest, joins Gary to discuss how from the beginning he strived for … Continue reading Episode 494: Ten Minutes with Christopher Priest →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Award-winning novelist and critic Nina Allan talks with Gary about what the lockdown has been like on a Scottish island … Continue reading Episode 493: Ten Minutes with Nina Allan →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary is joined by multiple award-winning artist and illustrator Charles Vess, chatting about country living during the lockdown, working with … Continue reading Episode 492: Ten Minutes with Charles Vess →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends a while chatting with Hugo Award winner Sarah Gailey about reading, writing, and getting through these strange … Continue reading Episode 491: Ten Minutes with Sarah Gailey →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls Hugo and Nebula award winning writer, poet, and critic Amal El-Mohtar, whose novella This … Continue reading Episode 490: Ten Minutes with Amal El-Mohtar →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Over the past decade Daniel Abraham has become famous as half of James S.A. Corey, creators of The Expanse, but … Continue reading Episode 489: Ten Minutes with Daniel Abraham →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls sunny New York to talk to the fabulous Nebula Award-winning author of The … Continue reading Episode 488: Ten Minutes with Brooke Bolander →
Well, this is pretty cool. The wonderful people at HarperVoyager are making ten (10) copies of The Book of Dragons available as giveaways to Coode Street readers, listeners, and to dragon lovers all across the United States. If you’re in the USA, are over eighteen and sign up by following this link and sign up … Continue reading Giveway! Ten copies of The Book of Dragons to win in the USA!!! →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo, Tiptree, and Shirley Jackson Award winner Maureen McHugh joins Gary to talk about online teaching during the lockdown, the … Continue reading Episode 487: Ten Minutes with Maureen McHugh →
Flying in the face of both good judgment and common sense, Jonathan and Gary return once again to the question of canons in science fiction and fantasy—a discussion which has widely re-emerged in recent weeks as a result of controversies over the Hugo Awards presentation at ConZealand. Are canons lists of books that people actually … Continue reading Episode 486: Firing the canon →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary chats with A.T. Greenblatt — this year’s short story Nebula winner for “Give the Family My Love” — about … Continue reading Episode 485: Ten Minutes with A.T. Greenblatt →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Legendary fan, publisher, and critic Cheryl Morgan talks with Gary about some favourite new and forthcoming books; the comfort in … Continue reading Episode 484: Ten Minutes with Cheryl Morgan →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo-nominated biographer, Analog contributor, and novelist Alec Nevala-Lee talks with Gary about his current research for a biography of R. … Continue reading Episode 483: Ten Minutes with Alec Nevala-Lee →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan calls up newly minted Hugo Award winner for Best Novel, Arkady Martine, to talk about reading, writing, and … Continue reading Episode 482: Ten Minutes with Arkady Martine →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. World Fantasy Award nominee Molly Gloss joins Gary to chat about listening to fiction on her commute to the horses, … Continue reading Episode 481: Ten Minutes with Molly Gloss →
Ten minutes with… is a regular series of short podcasts presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary kicks of the second series of Ten Minutes with by spending a few minutes with Hugo … Continue reading Episode 480: Ten Minutes with K.M. Szpara →
This year has thrown everyone for a loop. We were all supposed to travel, to have jobs to go to, to see one another, to not be sick or scared or just weary of the world — so many things should have been different. But this is 2020 – the year that keeps on giving … Continue reading Ten Minutes with…a second series →
Well, as is clear from the previous post and my social media, this blog was hacked by some nice people who used a bot of some sort to crack an old FTP password, delete everything and inject cruft into the database. These things happen and it’s taken a bit of time to get the whole … Continue reading After the hacking →
Well, without really planning it, we had a bit of a hiatus. It seems like recording over a hundred episodes in a row left us – or at least Jonathan – with the need for a little break, but we’re back! We think. With the Virtual ConZealand not quite over, Gary and Jonathan sit down … Continue reading Episode 479: What Comes Next? →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so chatting with Sarah Monette about living and writing during the pandemic, her alter … Continue reading Episode 478: Ten Minutes with Sarah Monette and Katherine Addison →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so calling up Orange Country, California to talk to World Fantasy and Philip K. … Continue reading Episode 477: Ten Minutes with James P. Blaylock →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. With the Ten Minutes with… series complete as a daily thing, Jonathan fires up the computer and calls Hugo and … Continue reading Episode 476: Twenty One Minutes with Peter Watts →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. One of England’s finest novelists, M. John Harrison, talks with Gary about the paradoxical insights of the poet Charles Simic, … Continue reading Episode 475: Ten Minutes with M. John Harrison →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Legendary Grand Master Jane Yolen shares with Gary some delightful personal news, as well as her advice to aspiring authors … Continue reading Episode 474: Ten Minutes with Jane Yolen →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary spends a few minutes with Jack Skillingstead and 2021 WorldCon Guest of Honor Nancy Kress talking about reading science; Jane … Continue reading Episode 473: Ten Minutes with Nancy Kress and Jack Skillingstead →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winner Kij Johnson joins Gary to talk about learning to keep focused during odd times, … Continue reading Episode 472: Ten Minutes with Kij Johnson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today is Day 97 of ten minutes with … and as the end approaches Jonathan is spending ten minutes or … Continue reading Episode 471: Ten Minutes with Alaya Dawn Johnson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking to exciting debut novelist Premee Mohamed about reading, writing, and working during the pandemic; … Continue reading Episode 470: Ten Minutes with Premee Mohamed →
Well, it’s time to head back to the socially distanced Gershwin Rooms in the geographically distanced Coode Street Motels Six for Gary and Jonathan to spend an hour or so talking about science fiction and the world. Today conversation starts with a continuation of the idea that this is a Golden Age of science fiction, … Continue reading Episode 469: SF, 2020, and the Anxiety of Influence →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends twenty minutes with the bestselling creator of Osten Ard, Tad Williams, discussing living and working during the … Continue reading Episode 468: Ten Minutes with Tad Williams →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. And now for something completely different. During the Ten Minutes with … series we’ve talked to writers, editors, artists, agents … Continue reading Episode 467: Ten Minutes with Stefen Brazulaitis and Tim Thomas →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo and Nebula Winning author and artist Ursula Vernon, along with her alter ego for adult readers T. Kingfisher, chats … Continue reading Episode 466: Ten Minutes with Ursula Vernon →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Nebula winner and recent Worldcon Guest of Honor Walter Jon Williams talks with Gary about hiding from COVID and the … Continue reading Episode 465: Ten Minutes with Walter Jon Williams →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so chatting with Derek Künsken about how he’s been dealing with these strange and … Continue reading Episode 464: Ten Minutes with Derek Künsken →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Multiple award winner Sam J. Miller joins Gary to discuss judging this year’s Neukom Award (with its intimidating list of … Continue reading Episode 463: Ten Minutes with Sam J. Miller →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes with bestselling, multiple award-winning author of Space Opera, Catherynne M. Valente, who joins him from an … Continue reading Episode 462: Ten Minutes with Catherynne M. Valente →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning G. Willow Wilson chats with Gary about what living in Seattle has felt like during … Continue reading Episode 461: Ten Minutes with G. Willow Wilson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary talks with writer, professor, critic, editor, and Shirley Jackson Awards board member F. Brett Cox about the Jackson Awards, … Continue reading Episode 460: Ten Minutes with F. Brett Cox →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends about ten minutes or so talking to Nebula Award-winning writer P. Djèlí Clark about reading, writing, and working during … Continue reading Episode 459 Ten Minutes with P. Djèlí Clark →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking to international bestselling writer and creator of the Riftwar Cycle, Raymond E. Feist, … Continue reading Episode 458: Ten Minutes with Raymond E. Feist →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls Adelaide to chat to one of Australia’s best and most adept writers of … Continue reading Episode 457: Ten Minutes with Sean Williams →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes calling farthest Brisbane to talk to national treasure and author of the Obernewtyn Chronicles, Isobelle Carmody, about … Continue reading Episode 456: Ten Minutes with Isobelle Carmody →
Left once again to their own devices, Jonathan and Gary turn to the question of what was science fiction’s real golden age—not in terms of overall literary history or the old cliché that “the golden age of science fiction is twelve, but rather what seemed like a golden age in terms of reading habits: when … Continue reading Episode 455: Almost Outta Gas, But We Can See The Golden Age… →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or more (somewhat more) talking to Adam Roberts about the joys and challenges of reading … Continue reading Episode 454: Ten Minutes with Adam Roberts →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary is joined by award-winning author and ILM filmmaker Gregory Norman Bossert to talk about how the changes facing the movie … Continue reading Episode 453: Ten Minutes with Gregory Norman Bossert →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls Stoker and British Fantasy Award winner Usman T. Malik to discuss living in Lahore … Continue reading Episode 452: Ten Minutes with Usman T. Malik →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking with multiple award winner Aliette de Bodard about reading and writing during these difficult … Continue reading Episode 451: Ten Minutes with Aliette de Bodard →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan takes ten minutes or so to talk with Hugo and British Fantasy Award winner Zen Cho about reading and … Continue reading Episode 450: Ten Minutes with Zen Cho →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. World Fantasy Award winner Tobias S. Buckell talks with Gary about life in a small town during the lockdown, the … Continue reading Episode 449: Ten Minutes with Tobias S. Buckell →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends about thirty minutes talking to Dave Hutchinson about reading and writing during the Great and Terrible Pause, … Continue reading Episode 448: Ten Minutes with Dave Hutchinson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so with Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated writer and artist Kathleen Jennings to discuss … Continue reading Episode 447: Ten Minutes with Kathleen Jennings →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Ellen Datlow joins Gary to discuss her 40-year career, the longevity of earlier editors, her reasons for doing best-of-the-year anthologies … Continue reading Episode 446: Ten Minutes with Ellen Datlow →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan fires up Skype and call Dhaka in Bangladesh so he can talk to Saad Z. Hossain, the wonderful … Continue reading Episode 445: Ten Minutes with Saad Z. Hossain →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends a bit more than ten minutes talking to literary agent and editor DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Literary … Continue reading Episode 444: Ten Minutes with DongWon Song →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan fires up Skype and points it towards Kolkata to talk to Lambda Award winner and Crawford, Otherwise, and … Continue reading Episode 443: Ten Minutes with Indrapramit Das →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Gary is joined by multiple award-winning author Nicola Griffith and they discuss the less-than-satisfactory challenges of the virtual cocktail party, … Continue reading Episode 442: Ten Minutes with Nicola Griffith →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan sits down to chat with Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning writer Lisa L. Hannett about reading, writing and life … Continue reading Episode 441: Ten Minutes with Lisa L. Hannett →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary joins Hugo and Nebula-winning author Terry Bisson to talk about historical fiction, R.A. Lafferty’s most important novel, James Salter, … Continue reading Episode 440: Ten Minutes with Terry Bisson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Daryl Gregory comes on board for a discussion with Gary about how distracting the news … Continue reading Episode 439: Ten Minutes with Daryl Gregory →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary is joined by fellow Locus reviewer and author Adrienne Martini, whose recent book on participating in local politics has … Continue reading Episode 438: Ten Minutes with Adrienne Martini →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. All the way from Barbados, multiple award-winning author Karen Lord chats with Gary about how the lockdown is affecting life … Continue reading Episode 437: Ten Minutes with Karen Lord →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. If his recent conversation with John Berlyne saw Jonathan embrace the fact that Coode Street’s ten minutes was at a … Continue reading Episode 436: Ten Minutes with Simon Ings →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Jonathan spends ten minutes talking with Claire McKenna about working, reading, and writing during difficult times, pirate utopias, the joys of old … Continue reading Episode 435: Ten Minutes with Claire McKenna →
Jonathan and Gary are back with a socially-distanced full-hour podcast. Since last time, Jonathan actually went and read the reviews for the podcast on the iTunes Podcast app where one listener described the Coode Street as being occasionally enlightening, saying when: “the two hosts are left to their own devices (which is most of the … Continue reading Episode 434: Occasionally Enlightening – Three Stars →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking with the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning ‘Hermit of Binghampton”, Jack Dann, … Continue reading Episode 433: Ten Minutes with Jack Dann →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. This is the point where, at least for Jonathan, it all went off the rails and the ‘ten minutes with” … Continue reading Episode 432: Ten Minutes with John Berlyne →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Scholar, photographer, editor, artist, author, and winner of many Ditmar and Aurealis Awards Cat Sparks joins Gary to discuss the … Continue reading Episode 431: Ten Minutes with Cat Sparks →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. This time out, Gary talks with fellow Locus reviewer Karen Burnham, also the author of Greg Egan in the Modern … Continue reading Episode 430: Ten Minutes with Karen Burnham →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan is joined by the World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga, the Exo series, and Zeroboxer, … Continue reading Episode 429: Ten Minutes with Fonda Lee →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes with Aurealis Award-nominated debut novelist Corey J. White to discuss moving to Melbourne, reading Ralph Ellison, … Continue reading Episode 428: Ten Minutes with Corey J. White →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking with one of the most beloved writers in the history of science … Continue reading Episode 427: Ten Minutes with Lois McMaster Bujold →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan takes ten minutes to talk to the bestselling, critically-acclaimed, and award-winning editor and anthologist Ann VanderMeer about working … Continue reading Episode 426: Ten Minutes with Ann VanderMeer →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan sits down to chat with debut novelist Jeremy Szal to talk about reading, writing, his admiration for Netflix’s … Continue reading Episode 425: Ten Minutes with Jeremy Szal →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Nebula-winning author, editor, teacher, and workshop leader Eileen Gunn talks with Gary about the pleasures of researching old myths, legends, … Continue reading Episode 424: Ten Minutes with Eileen Gunn →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Gary is joined by novelist, poet, scholar, and teacher Theodora Goss, whose trilogy The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena … Continue reading Episode 423: Ten Minutes with Theodora Goss →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan sits down to talk with World Fantasy Award-winning writer, poet, and playwright Robert Shearman about the joys and surprises … Continue reading Episode 422: Ten Minutes with Robert Shearman →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Jonathan spends ten minutes or so chatting about living, working, and reading during this Great and Terrible Pause with Rebellion/Solaris … Continue reading Episode 421: Ten Minutes with David Thomas Moore →
It’s been two weeks since Jonathan and Gary sat down to chat for the podcast. In the interests of social distancing, they’ve had a replica of the Gershwin Room built a socially responsible distance away from the original so they can talk safely. This time out they chat about science fiction, what they’re reading, a … Continue reading Episode 420: Not Locked Down, Locked Up →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes talking to the spectacular Kelly Robson who is in the very centre of the centre … Continue reading Episode 419: Ten Minutes with Kelly Robson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan chats with Saga Press editorial director Joe Monti who has worked with some of the best writers and … Continue reading Episode 418: Ten Minutes with Joe Monti →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan sits down with Alyx Dellamonica to talk about writing Dealbreaker – the sequel to their L.X Beckett novel Gamechanger – how … Continue reading Episode 417: Ten Minutes with Alyx Dellamonica →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. The distinguished “literary horror” icon Brian Evenson chats with Gary about his relationship to genre, whether or not it’s a … Continue reading Episode 416: Ten Minutes with Brian Evenson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary is joined by science fiction’s dean of baseball stories Rick Wilber, whose most recent collection is Rambunctious: Nine Tales … Continue reading Episode 415: Ten Minutes with Rick Wilber →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. The multi-talented Elizabeth Hand joins Gary for a discussion of writing in different genres and the good fortune of having … Continue reading Episode 414: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Hand →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. As the great and terrible pause grinds on Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking to Joe Abercrombie about reading … Continue reading Episode 413: Ten Minutes with Joe Abercrombie →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Another quiet afternoon, so Gary spends ten minutes with multiple Hugo-winning Michael Swanwick about Karl Schroeder, Roger Zelazny, Duke Ellington, … Continue reading Episode 412: Ten Minutes with Michael Swanwick →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary is joined by the wonderful Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy-nominated E. Lily Yu who chats about staying curious and involved … Continue reading Episode 411: Ten Minutes with E Lily Yu →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Is ten minutes enough? Not when you’re talking to multiple award-winning, bestselling, and widely loved duo Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch … Continue reading Episode 410: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Jonathan is joined by Newbery Medal and World Fantasy Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill to discuss the joys of listening to audiobooks, … Continue reading Episode 409: Ten Minutes with Kelly Barnhill →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so chatting with David Pomerico, the Editorial Director at HarperVoyager in the US, who talks … Continue reading Episode 408: Ten Minutes with David Pomerico →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. The terrific Nnedi Okorafor joins Gary for an epic thirty-minute discussion on the challenges and rewards of having a lot of … Continue reading Episode 407: Thirty Minutes with Nnedi Okorafor →
This week, returning to our customary format of rambling aimlessly for an hour or so, Jonathan and Gary share observations on what we are learning from our series of Ten Minutes With… podcasts, how the current crisis may or may not be reflected in tomorrow’s SF, the increasing relevance of Kim Stanley Robinson and others … Continue reading Episode 406: On the Ten Minutes With Experience and more →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary spends ten minutes or so with Hugo and Nebula-winning James Patrick Kelly, touching upon the challenges of reading during lockdown, … Continue reading Episode 405: Ten Minutes with James Patrick Kelly →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary is joined by the wonderful Nalo Hopkinson, who took a few minutes away from a busy semester of suddenly teaching … Continue reading Episode 404: Ten Minutes with Nalo Hopkinson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today one of our most important novelists, Kim Stanley Robinson, joins Gary for a chat that touches upon the challenges of … Continue reading Episode 403: Ten Minutes with Kim Stanley Robinson →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Today Jonathan spends ten minutes chatting with Kate Elliott, who calls in from her home high on a hillside overlooking the Pacific … Continue reading Episode 402: Ten Minutes with Kate Elliott →
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times. Gary chats with World Fantasy Award-winner Mary Rickert on being cautious during the lockdown, reading Dracula for the first time, the … Continue reading Episode 401: Ten Minutes with M. Rickert →
Well, that was unexpected, wasn’t it? After kicking off the Coode Street Podcast in May 2010 with no plans, no skills, and no technical knowledge, Gary and Jonathan race towards their 10th anniversary with no real plans, no skills, and pretty much no technical knowledge at all. And yet, despite being invited to desist on … Continue reading Episode 400: In which we turn 400… →