Episodes
Saturday May 09, 2020
Episode 412: Ten Minutes with Michael Swanwick
Saturday May 09, 2020
Saturday May 09, 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.
Another quiet afternoon, so Gary spends ten minutes with multiple Hugo-winning Michael Swanwick about Karl Schroeder, Roger Zelazny, Duke Ellington, collaborating with Gardner Dozois, and Michael’s own remarkable trilogy of genre-mixing stand-alone novels.
Books mentioned include:
- The Iron Dragon’s Mother by Michael Swanwick
- The Postutopian Adventures of Darger and Surplus by Michael Swanwick
- City Under the Stars by Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
- Stealing Worlds by Karl Schroeder
- Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny
Friday May 08, 2020
Episode 411: Ten Minutes with E Lily Yu
Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 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.
Gary is joined by the wonderful Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy-nominated E. Lily Yu who chats about staying curious and involved during stressful times, being kind to yourself, her forthcoming novel On Fragile Waves, and, incidentally, setting blenders on fire and reading cookbooks as condensed narratives.
Books mentioned include:
- On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu (forthcoming in December)
- The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
- How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World: The Definitive Guide to Adapting and Succeeding in High-Performance Careers by Neil Irwin
- A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
- Rambunctious by Rick Wilber
Thursday May 07, 2020
Episode 410: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 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.
Is ten minutes enough? Not when you're talking to multiple award-winning, bestselling, and widely loved duo Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch who join Jonathan to discuss reading during The Great and Terrible Pause, the importance of supporting creators who are not assholes, the many adaptations of The Taking of Pelham 123, and more!
Books mentioned include:
- Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
- Machine by Elizabeth Bear
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- The Force by Don Winslow
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three by John Godey
- Agency by William Gibson
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Episode 409: Ten Minutes with Kelly Barnhill
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 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.
Jonathan is joined by Newbery Medal and World Fantasy Award-winning author Kelly Barnhill to discuss the joys of listening to audiobooks, the importance of reading gently, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill
- The Ogress at the Far End of Town by Kelly Barnhill (coming next year)
- The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
- The Changeling by Joy Williams
- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
- Terry Pratchett audiobooks
- LeVar Burton reads... (podcast )
- What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah (read by Levar Burton)
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Episode 408: Ten Minutes with David Pomerico
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 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 or so chatting with David Pomerico, the Editorial Director at HarperVoyager in the US, who talks about the pleasure of audiobooks, the importance of following your heart when choosing what you're going to read, and mentions some of the exciting new books he has coming out in 2021 and beyond.
Books mentioned include:
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
- Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
- The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
- The Wayfarer Series by Becky Chambers
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
- Weather by Jenny Offill
Monday May 04, 2020
Episode 407: Thirty Minutes with Nnedi Okorafor
Monday May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 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.
The terrific Nnedi Okorafor joins Gary for an epic thirty-minute discussion on the challenges and rewards of having a lot of deadlines, comfort reading during the lockdown, what it’s like to discover that your daughter actually likes your novels, what Africanfuturism means, and various and exciting media projects, some of which must remain unannounced for the time being.
Books mentioned include:
- Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
- Ikenga by Nnedi Okorafor (forthcoming)
- Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor (forthcoming)
- Noor by Nnedi Okorafor (in progress)
- Tales From Moominvalley by Tove Jansson
- The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Sunday May 03, 2020
Episode 406: On the Ten Minutes With Experience and more [REPOST]
Sunday May 03, 2020
Sunday May 03, 2020
This week, returning to our customary format of rambling aimlessly for an hour or so, Jonathan and Gary share observations on what we are learning from our series of Ten Minutes With... podcasts, how the current crisis may or may not be reflected in tomorrow’s SF, the increasing relevance of Kim Stanley Robinson and others who have addressed global issues in the Before Times, the question of whether SF serves more as a mirror or a lamp (to borrow and cheerfully misuse a phrase from M.H. Abrams’s classic study of Romantic literary theory), and. of course, what we’ve been reading and hoping to read in the next few months.
Sunday May 03, 2020
Episode 406: On the Ten Minutes With Experience and more
Sunday May 03, 2020
Sunday May 03, 2020
This week, returning to our customary format of rambling aimlessly for an hour or so, Jonathan and Gary share observations on what we are learning from our series of Ten Minutes With... podcasts, how the current crisis may or may not be reflected in tomorrow’s SF, the increasing relevance of Kim Stanley Robinson and others who have addressed global issues in the Before Times, the question of whether SF serves more as a mirror or a lamp (to borrow and cheerfully misuse a phrase from M.H. Abrams’s classic study of Romantic literary theory), and. of course, what we’ve been reading and hoping to read in the next few months.