Episodes
Sunday Feb 23, 2014
Episode 179: James Bradley, Garth Nix, Sean Williams and Australian SF
Sunday Feb 23, 2014
Sunday Feb 23, 2014
Faced with another relentless summer's day in Perth and icy Chicago winter evening, Jonathan and Gary turn to long-time friends of the podcast James Bradley, Garth Nix, and Sean Williams, luxuriating in a cool Sydney summer afternoon, to discuss Australian fiction, young adult fiction, and the works of Neville Shute in a wide-ranging conversation that is only occasionally interrupted by the vagaries of Skype.
Monday Feb 17, 2014
Episode 178: On importance and important science fiction
Monday Feb 17, 2014
Monday Feb 17, 2014
With a new season of the Coode Street Podcast well under way, Gary and Jonathan connected up between the icy wilds of Chicago and the sunny streets of Melbourne, to discuss "importance" in science fiction. What does "important" mean anyway, what works are "important" and so on.
Sunday Feb 09, 2014
Episode 177: Kij Johnson, science fiction and the Booker Prize
Sunday Feb 09, 2014
Sunday Feb 09, 2014
As snow and ice freeze the North American heartlands, long-time friend of the podcast Kij Johnson agreed to travel across a frozen Kansas City to find a place where she could Skype in to the Waldorf Room to join Gary and Jonathan in discussion.
This time Gary threw out a question to kick start the discussion: which science fiction writer is most likely to win the Booker Prize, and which one is most likely to top the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists? It proved a good start to a thoughtful discussion that wandered far and wide, although we’d contend not much rambling happened this week.
As always, we’d like to thank Kij for joining us, and hope you enjoy the podcast. Next week Jonathan travels to Melbourne, so who knows what will happen there!
Sunday Feb 02, 2014
Episode 176: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Recommended Reading List.
Sunday Feb 02, 2014
Sunday Feb 02, 2014
Every February US science fiction and fantasy industry trade journal Locus publishes an annual 'Year in Review" issue that includes overviews, summaries, reports and an eagerly awaited 'Recommended Reading List'.
With the February issue safely complete and either already in eager digital reader's inboxes or winging its way to them in print courtesy of international postal services, and with the 2013 Recommended Reading List available to read on the Locus website, editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi joins Gary and Jonathan on the podcast to discuss the year in review issue, the Recommended Reading List, and what it means to try to produce an annual summary of SF/F in 2014.
As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast. See you next week!