Episodes
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
Episode 266: Prolificity and Academia
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
Sunday Jan 31, 2016
Tonight we discuss, as we do all too often, the beginning of the awards season, as well as the sometimes problematical Hugo category of Best Related Work, the question of authors who are so prolific that new readers may feel intimidated, and some of the parameters of who and who should not be covered in the Modern Masters of Science Fiction series of books, of which Gary has recently assumed editorship.
Saturday Jan 30, 2016
Coode Street Roundtable 1: Adam Roberts' The Thing Itself
Saturday Jan 30, 2016
Saturday Jan 30, 2016
Welcome to the first episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a new monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by occasional special guests, discuss a new or recently released science fiction or fantasy novel.
Adam Roberts' The Thing Itself
“Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing.Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant.As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. The come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone.”
Next month
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
Episode 265: David Hartwell and the beginning of 2016
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
Sunday Jan 24, 2016
For our first podcast recorded in 2016, beginning our sixth year, we discuss the remarkable career of David G. Hartwell, the role of editors in shaping science fiction, the forthcoming Hugo Awards nominations and MidAmericon, the World Fantasy Convention, and the significance of science fiction of the the 1980s—both as it appeared then and as it appears to us now.
Friday Jan 15, 2016
Episode 264: Glen Cook and Steven Erikson
Friday Jan 15, 2016
Friday Jan 15, 2016
Continuing the series of podcasts we recorded in Saratoga Springs at the World Fantasy Convention, we sat down with distinguished fantasy writers Glen Cook and Steven Erikson, discussing the genesis of Cook's influential Black Company and Dread Empire series and other novels, and Erikson's hugely popular Malazan Book of the Fallen. In addition to their approaches to character and world-building, they offer insights into how Steve's background in archaeology influenced his work, and what it was like for Glen to live with Fritz Leiber many years ago.
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
Episode 263: Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
Sunday Jan 10, 2016
Saturday Jan 02, 2016
Episode 262: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Charlie Jane Anders in Saratoga
Saturday Jan 02, 2016
Saturday Jan 02, 2016
One of the highlights of the 2015 World Fantasy Convention in November was when Gary and Jonathan got to sit down with Guest of Honor Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and io9 editor-in-chief Charlie Jane Anders to discuss their respective careers, their experiences working in science fiction and fantasy as women, and much more.