Episodes
Sunday Feb 03, 2013
Episode 133: On Locus, recommended reading, Neptune's Brood and more
Sunday Feb 03, 2013
Sunday Feb 03, 2013
This week the Coode Street team headed back to the Waldorf Room high in the Coode Street Motel Six to discuss the annual Locus Year in Review issue, the publishing industry, and other matters. We also briefly discuss two forthcoming novels, Guy Gavriel Kay's River of Stars and Charles Stross's Neptune's Brood. The Locus Recommended Reading List is online, as is the annual Locus Poll and a list of links to recommended short fiction. As discussed during the episode, both Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan work for Locus and were actively involved in compiling the recommended reading list. You can subscribe to Locus here. The Year in Review issue is available as the start of a subscription or as a stand-alone issue. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!
Sunday Jan 27, 2013
Episode 132: On context, books, and awards
Sunday Jan 27, 2013
Sunday Jan 27, 2013
Back to the Waldorf Room where, in troubled times, the Coode Street podcast team meet to discuss publishing artifacts as framing devices, Bruce Sterling's new book, awards eligibility and possibly other stuff. We even shamelessly mention that this podcast is eligible for Hugo Award nomination (you have been warned). As always, we hope you enjoy the digression.
Saturday Jan 19, 2013
Episode 131: Live with Nancy Kress!
Saturday Jan 19, 2013
Saturday Jan 19, 2013
With Gary's commitments fulfilled, we once again headed to the Gershwin Room, where we were joined by award-winning writer Nancy Kress to discuss writing, science fiction, the future, and all sorts of other interesting stuff. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast and will see you next week!
Sunday Jan 06, 2013
Episode 130: Contemporary fantasy, lists and other things
Sunday Jan 06, 2013
Sunday Jan 06, 2013
The quiet days after the New Year, when Coode Street scribes spend their days slowly summarising the moments of the year just gone and contemplating what the year ahead might bring, pass slowly in the chill of Chicago and the sweltering heat of the Antipodes. With little specific to discuss, we nonetheless headed to the Waldorf Room high atop the Coode St Motel Six, with no clear intention of what would unfold. Moments before podcasting began, though, a query came through from James Bradley, asking our thoughts on excellent contemporary fantasy. Interest piqued, we discussed, we listed and we chatted. While we would love to hear listeners recommendations, these are the books we discussed (and recommended) during the podcast: Contemporary Fantasy Novels (in the order mentioned on the podcast)
- Mythago Wood, Robert Holdstock
- The Drowning Girl, Caitlin R. Kiernan
- Last Call, Tim Powers
- Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay
- The Limits of Enchantment, Graham Joyce
- The Wizard Knight, Gene Wolfe
- The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
- Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
- Perfect Circle, Sean Stewart
- Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
- Wizard of Pigeons, Megan Lindholm
- The Scar, China Mieville
- The Prestige, Christopher Priest
- Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
- The Brides of Roll-Rock Island, Margo Lanagan
- Was, Geoff Ryman
Saturday Dec 29, 2012
Episode 129: In which the year ends....
Saturday Dec 29, 2012
Saturday Dec 29, 2012
This week we headed up to the Gershwin Room to discuss the recently announced Locus All Time Poll results, writing for the end of the year and other similarly pre-New Year's Eve kinds of things. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!
Saturday Dec 22, 2012
Episode 128: Live with Gene Wolfe
Saturday Dec 22, 2012
Saturday Dec 22, 2012
This week we're joined in the Gershwin Room by newly annointed SFWA Grand Master Gene Wolfe to discuss writing, his work, his new novel, and much more. We had hoped to feature listener questions, and would like to sincerely thank everyone who sent questions in, but they ended up not quite fitting the format. We are sincerely grateful, however, to everyone who wanted to be involved. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!
Monday Dec 17, 2012
Episode 127: Live with Maureen McHugh
Monday Dec 17, 2012
Monday Dec 17, 2012
This week we return to the Gershwin Room to chat with Maureen McHugh, award-winning author of novels China Mountain Zang, Half the Day is Night, Mission Child, and Nekropolis, and the short story collections Mothers and Other Monsters and After the Apocalypse. We discuss her time in Los Angeles and how it is affecting her writing, the nature of story, and many other things. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast! PS: This podcast is usually cross-posted at www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp, however that site is unavailable at the moment. The episode will be published there when service is restored.
Tuesday Dec 11, 2012
Episode 126: In which rambling continues...
Tuesday Dec 11, 2012
Tuesday Dec 11, 2012
After a long delay due to technical issues with our hosting service, Podbean, we are now able to bring you the latest episode of The Coode Street Podcast. Episode 126 was recorded on Sunday, 9 December by Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, who rambled about various subjects to do with science fiction and fantasy. The recording was done so long ago, though, that neither podcaster quite remembers what they discussed or is willing to listen to the podcast to find out what. If you do listen to the podcast, please consider describing this episode in the comments. "General rambling", commenters are reminded, is a category and not a description. Although we don't remember the podcast, we still hope you enjoy it. We'll be back next weekend, technology permitting, with a new episode!