Episodes
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Episode 395: Ten Minutes with Christopher Rowe
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
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 Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee Christopher Rowe to discuss the great agricultural SF novel, the pleasures of Kim Stanley Robinson’s one comic novel, Garth Nix's fabulous Angel Mage, and much, more more. Christopher's new story "The Parable of the Tares" has just been released by Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination as part of its Us in Flux series. CSI has also released a Conversation with Michael Bell about the inspiration for the story.
Books mentioned include:
- "The Parable of the Tares" by Christopher Rowe
- Us in Flux: Conversations by Christopher Rowe & Michael Bell
- Telling the Map by Christopher Rowe
- Angel Mage by Garth Nix
- Escape from Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Episode 394: Ten Minutes with Sofia Samatar
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
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 chats with World Fantasy Award-winning Sofia Samatar about the great German writer W.G. Sebald, returning to formative books in times of stress, the literary prehistory of robots as explored in her wonderful story "Fairy Tales for Robots", and her upcoming story "The New Book of the Dead" in Philosophy Through Science Fiction Stories.
Books mentioned include:
- Tender by Sofia Samatar
- The Rings of Saturn, Austerlitz, and Vertigo by W.G. Sebald,
- The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper
- Silver Road: Maps, Essays and Calligraphies by Ali Kazim
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Episode 393: Ten Minutes with Charles Stross
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
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 Charles Stross, bestselling author of the Hugo award-winning Laundry Files series and the critically acclaimed Accelerando, to discuss working in the time of pandemic, whether authors are the people to turn to for reading recommendations, his upcoming work and return to space opera, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross
- Invisible Sun by Charles Stross
- The Unspoken Name by Alison Larkwood
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Episode 392: Ten Minutes with Cory Doctorow
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
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 Cory Doctorow talking about reading and writing in the time of pandemic, what a practical utopia might actually be, the utopian novel he's working on right now, what books he has coming out in the coming year, and the pleasures to be had from listening to Terry Pratchett books.
Books mentioned include:
- Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow
- Poesy the Monster Slayer by Cory Doctorow (art by Matt Rockefeller)
- Little Brother & Homeland by Cory Doctorow
- Afterland by Lauren Beukes
- Or What You Will by Jo Walton
- Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
- King Rat by James Clavell
- Terry Pratchett audiobooks
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Episode 391: Ten Minutes with Martha Wells
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
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 Jonathan spends ten minutes with the fabulous Martha Wells, whose Murderbot Diaries first appeared in 2017 and quickly went on to become one of the most popular and beloved series of recent times, winning the Hugo and Nebula Awards along the way. Martha discusses working in time of lockdown, upcoming work (including a new short story, "The Salt Lick" coming from Uncanny), and the joys of reading.
Books mentioned include:
- Network Effect by Martha Wells
- Echo in Amethyst by Sharon Shinn
- Finna by Nino Cipri
- Stormsong by C L Polk
- Jade War by Fonda Lee
- The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
- The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
- The City We Became by N K Jemisin
- The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
- Null Set by SL Huang
- Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Episode 390: Ten Minutes with Alastair Reynolds
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
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 Alastair Reynolds spends ten minutes talking with Jonathan about unexpectedly sunny weather in Wales, the challenges of focussing on reading and work at the moment, the immersive pleasures of diving into an enormous book by Neal Stephenson, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
- Made to Order by Jonathan Strahan
- Comet Weather by Liz Williams
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Episode 389: Ten Minutes with Gwyneth Jones
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
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.
In this episode, Gary spends ten minutes with the brilliant writer and critic Gwyneth Jones, whose study of the work of Joanna Russ is nominated for a Hugo Award in the Best Related Work category. We touch upon a classic case or two in psychoanalysis, the early life of novelist George Sand, the reissue of the 'Bold as Love' books in Gollancz's Masterworks series, and of course Joanna Russ and the formative days of feminist SF.
Books mentioned include:
- Joanna Russ by Gwyneth Jones
- Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones
- What Is Madness by Darian Leader
- Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand by George Sand
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Episode 388: Ten Minutes with Ian McDonald
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
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, Jonathan calls up long-time friend of Coode Street, Ian McDonald, to talk about how current events are impacting reading and working, piracy at sea, research, romance, and his long-awaited (by Jonathan) next novel, Hopeland. There might even have been a moment of congratulations for Ian's recent Hugo nomination for the Luna series!
Books mentioned include:
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Luna: Moon Rising by Ian McDonald
- The Menace from Farside by Ian McDonald
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The Book of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition by Ursula K. Le Guin (art by Charles Vess)
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The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
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Magical Women edited by Sukanya Venkatraghavan
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Edge of Heaven by RB Kelly