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Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
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Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 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.
Award-winning critic and biographer Julie Phillips talks about listening to audiobooks while biking in Amsterdam, enjoying Martha Wells's Murderbot series, reviewing classic American books newly translated into Dutch, her own fondness for Willa Cather, and her current biographical work on women authors as mothers (including Doris Lessing) and her biography-in-progress of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Books mentioned include:
- James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Underground Railway by Colson Whitehead
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Monday Sep 28, 2020
Monday Sep 28, 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 calls up Tordotcom Publishing editor Ruoxi Chen to chat about revisiting all-time favourites and how re-reading can help keep editors in touch with the readers they need to be, the therapeutic values of disaster nonfiction, dipping into audiobooks, the state of speculative fiction and why there’s a lot to be optimistic about, and a lot more.
Books mentioned include:
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (forthcoming, June 2021)
- The Queen's Thief Series by Megan Whalen Turner
- The Old Kingdom Series by Garth Nix
- We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
- The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Sunday Sep 27, 2020
Coode Street has a long history of talking to Kim Stanley Robinson about the world and his work, starting back in 2011, continuing in our 200th episode in London, and on the publication of 2312, Aurora, and New York 2140, so we couldn't pass up the chance to talk to him now.
In what is easily the longest episode of Coode Street for this strange pandemic year, Gary, Jonathan, and Stan discuss his brand new novel, The Ministry for the Future, the value and purpose of science fiction, Stan's important working relationship with editor Tim Holman, experimenting with form, what comes next, and more.
As always, we'd like to thank Stan for making the time to talk to us and hope you enjoy the episode.
Saturday Sep 26, 2020
Saturday Sep 26, 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.
Madeleine E. Robins, author of the Sarah Tolerance historical mysteries, SF and fantasy, and historical novels, talks about starting her career with Regency novels influenced by Georgette Heyer, how "fluffy bunny" reading doesn’t necessarily mean fluffy, making masks and researching mask laws from a century ago (and the “mask riots” in San Francisco then), and her own recent work and work-in-progress.
Books mentioned include:
- Sold for Endless Rue by Madeleine E. Robins
- "Omunculus" by Madeleine E. Robins
- Whitehall by Liz Duffy Adams, Mary Robinette Kowal, Madeleine E. Robins, Barbara Samuel & Delia Sherman
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Lord Peter Wimsey Series by Dorothy L. Sayers
- The Complete Novels by Jane Austen
- R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
- Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
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Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 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.
Nebula and Locus award-winning Linda Nagata talks about what life in Maui is like with almost no tourists, how audiobooks have improved in recent years, her experiences in running her own publishing company and establishing her own deadlines, and her timely forthcoming novel Pacific Storm.
Books mentioned include:
- The Red Trilogy by Linda Nagata
- Edges by Linda Nagata
- Silver by Linda Nagata
- Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
- Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
- The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
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Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 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.
Multiple award-nominee Benjamin Rosenbaum discusses the pandemic as seen from Switzerland, learning to write in his garden when cafes are no longer available, designing board games with his son, the reboot of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, rereading classic SF, and his own recent stories and forthcoming genderless novel.
Books mentioned include:
- The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum (forthcoming)
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
- My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
- A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Startide Rising by David Brin
- The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
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Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 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.
Award-winning author, editor, and scholar Delia Sherman talks about reading old French newspapers and memoirs; the rewards of research; listening to audiobooks during long walks (including a lot of Dickens!); the orderly appeal of good murder mysteries from Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, and others; missing out on being a teenager; and how political themes are finding their way into her novel in progress.
Books mentioned include:
- The Porcelain Dove by Delia Sherman
- The Evil Wizard Smallbone by Delia Sherman
- A Quiet Life in the Country by T.E Kinsey
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- The Phryne Fisher Series by Kerry Greenwood
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Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 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.
Writer, professor, and Strange Horizons founder Mary Anne Mohanraj chats with Gary about launching a new cookbook just as everything got locked down, how virtual conventions seem to be improving—and are likely to change the way all cons are conducted in the future, keeping busy sewing masks, serving as a public library board member, and teaching online, why SF doesn’t have enough food in it, South Asian SFF writers, and even how the word serendipity came into the language.
Books mentioned include:
- A Feast of Serendib by Mary Anne Mohanraj
- A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
- How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
- Best American Food Writing 2019 edited by Samin Nosrat
- Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee
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