Episodes
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
Episode 329: Sam Miller and the Art of Living in the World
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
Sunday Apr 22, 2018
This week, the always bustling Coode Street Motel battles technical difficulties, sound dropouts, and other gremlins of the Skypesphere to welcome Sam J. Miller, whose Blackfish City is just out, and whose young adult novel The Art of Starving received great notices last year.
We discuss balancing his day job as a community organizer with his fiction, the genesis of his new novel in a couple of earlier short stories, the writers who made him want to become one, the arbitrary nature of classifying stories as SF, horror, fantasy, YA, etc., and even the choice of pronouns in describing particular characters.
As always, our thanks to Sam and we hope you enjoy the episode.
Saturday Apr 07, 2018
Episode 328: Re-reading, reprinting and the classics
Saturday Apr 07, 2018
Saturday Apr 07, 2018
Gary was looking through the books that seem to tumble endlessly through his front door for review and came across a new edition of David R. Bunch's classic story collection, Moderan, which is set to be re-released by New York Review Books this coming August with an introduction by Jeff VanderMeer.
It led to a conversation about to whether there's an art to re-reading books, how you should go about republishing classic books, and much more. We also snuck in an apology or two at the very end of the episode. As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. See you next week (in all of our lo-fi glory).
Monday Apr 02, 2018
Episode 327: Awards, climate fiction and more
Monday Apr 02, 2018
Monday Apr 02, 2018
This week, Jonathan and Gary discuss the parameters of climate-influenced SF, the usefulness or not of the term 'cli-fi' (with increasing numbers of SF works set all or partly in the Arctic or Antarctic) and, inevitably, the beginning of the awards season, with the Aurealis and Ditmar awards, the BSFA awards, and the nominees announced this past weekend for the 2018 Hugos. Who is being celebrated on the ballot, and which works were we surprised to see omitted?
As always, we hope you enjoy the episode!
Correction and apology
During this episode we use the incorrect gender pronouns for Yoon Ha Lee. We used she/her when we should have used he/him. We apologise unreservedly for this, and will be sure to correct it in future episodes.