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Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
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Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Saturday Aug 15, 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 chats with A.T. Greenblatt -- this year’s short story Nebula winner for "Give the Family My Love" -- about the pleasures of escape reading even in normal times, listening to romances, mysteries, and memoirs, the graphic novels of Marjorie Liu and Neil Gaiman, the Murderbot stories of Martha Wells, and serious walking as an inspiration for fiction.
Books mentioned include:
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
- Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman et al.
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Monday Aug 10, 2020
Monday Aug 10, 2020
Ten minutes with... is a regular series of short podcasts 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 kicks of the second series of Ten Minutes with by spending a few minutes with Hugo and Nebula-nominated K.M. Szpara discussing the appeal of audiobooks, young-adult mysteries and horror stories (and their value in learning about plotting), what it’s like to launch a novel at the very beginning of the lockdown, and his own forthcoming work.
Books mentioned include:
- Docile by K.M. Szpara
- First, Become Ashes by K.M. Szpara (forthcoming April 2021)
- Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
- The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson
- The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
- In the Hall with a Knife: A Clue Mystery by Diana Peterfreund
- Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
- Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
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Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 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.
Gary spends a few minutes with Jack Skillingstead and 2021 WorldCon Guest of Honor Nancy Kress talking about reading science; Jane Austen, Star Trek, and the comforts of an orderly world; the appeal of Hollywood biographies; and revisiting old favorites like Philip K. Dick, Robert Bloch, and Roger Zelazny.
Books mentioned include:
- Sea Change by Nancy Kress
- The Eleventh Gate by Nancy Kress
- The Chaos Function by Jack Skillingstead
- Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene
- The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
- The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory by Brian Greene
- Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Mitford
- The Ragman's Son by Kirk Douglas
- Hello Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand by William J. Mann
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Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 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.
Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking to exciting debut novelist Premee Mohamed about reading, writing, and working during the pandemic; the work of Alan Moore, Umberto Eco, and Amitav Ghosh; the experience of publishing her debut novel in 2020; and how it was to effectively collaborate with her younger self on Beneath the Rising and writing A Broken Darkness.
Books mentioned include:
- Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed
- A Broken Darkness by Premee Mohamed
- Jerusalem by Alan Moore
- Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
- Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
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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
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Sunday Sep 22, 2019
Sunday Sep 22, 2019
Welcome to the first episode of the second season of The Coode Street Roundtable, a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panellists James Bradley, Ian Mond, Gary K. Wolfe, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by occasional special guests, discuss a new or recently released science fiction or fantasy novel.
Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline
This month James, Ian, Gary and Jonathan discuss the latest book from Annalee Newitz. It’s described by publisher Tor Books as follows:
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend’s abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too.
2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she’s found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost.
Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline—a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline?
If you’re keen to avoid spoilers, we recommend reading the book before listening to the episode (serious spoilers start around the ten-minute mark).
If you don’t already have a copy, The Future of Another Timeline can be ordered from:
• North American booksellers
• UK booksellers
• amazon.com.au
We encourage all of our listeners to leave comments here and we will do our best to respond as soon as possible.
Books mentioned this episode
James mentioned:
- Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
- Paul Kingsnorth, The Wake
- Alastair Reynolds, Permafrost
- Michelle Tea, Black Wave
- Connie Willis, Doomsday Book
Gary mentioned:
- Elizabeth Hand, Curious Toys
Ian mentioned:
- Claire North, The Pursuit of William Abbey
- Meghan Elison, The Road to Nowhere Trilogy
Jonathan mentioned:
Kelly Robson, Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach
Next month
The Coode Street Roundtable will return at the end of October with a discussion of Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
Sunday Jul 24, 2016
After our longest hiatus so far, Jonathan is back from Italy and Gary is back from Readercon, and we ramble on about such questions as whether modern SF can be characterized as optimistic or pessimistic, how some stories survive as influences despite their obvious flaws, whether modern SF holds on to some of its cherished myths even when they no longer seem feasible, what we’re reading these days, and our own forthcoming public podcast at MidAmericon next month. As usual, any topic that you might find uninteresting will soon turn into another topic entirely.
Sunday May 01, 2016
Sunday May 01, 2016
Welcome to the fourth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by occasional special guests, discuss a new or recently released science fiction or fantasy novel.
Paul McAuley's Into Everywhere
This month Coode Street co-host Gary Wolfe joins us to discuss Into Everwhere, the latest novel from Paul McAuley. It’s smart, engaging hard SF adventure described by its publisher as follows:
The Jackaroo, those enigmatic aliens who claim to have come to help, gave humanity access to worlds littered with ruins and scraps of technology left by long-dead client races. But although people have found new uses for alien technology, that technology may have found its own uses for people.
The dissolute scion of a powerful merchant family, and a woman living in seclusion with only her dog and her demons for company, have become infected by a copies of a powerful chunk of alien code. Driven to discover what it wants from them, they become caught up in a conflict between a policeman allied to the Jackaroo and the laminated brain of a scientific wizard, and a mystery that spans light years and centuries. Humanity is about to discover why the Jackaroo came to help us, and how that help is shaping the end of human history.
If you're keen to avoid spoilers, we recommend reading the book before listening to the episode. If you don't already have a copy, Into Everywhere can be ordered from:
We encourage all of our listeners to leave comments here and we will do our best to respond as soon as possible.
Correction
During the podcast Jonathan incorrectly says Paul McAuley's next novel, Austral, is due in late 2016. It's actually due in late 2017. Our apologies for any confusion this may have caused.
Next month
The Coode Street Roundtable will return at the end of May with a discussion of Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky.