Episodes
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
Episode 544: Ten Minutes with Max Gladstone
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
Sunday Feb 07, 2021
Last year Coode Street sat down with people from all over the world to talk about what they were reading, what they were up to, and how they were coping with strange times. We did it every day, which we probably never will again, and along the way found out it was fun and interesting to check in for a short chat. We're continuing that during 2021.
Ten Minutes with Max Gladstone
The second "Ten Minutes with..." chat for 2021 is with Max Gladstone, the acclaimed author of the Craft Sequence, the Empress of Forever and, with Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War.
Max sat down with Jonathan last year and discussed what he had been reading (a lot!), what he'd recommend, and what he had coming up. As always, our thanks to Max for taking the time to chat with us.
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Episode 542: Ten Minutes with Jason Sizemore
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Last year Coode Street sat down with people from all over the world to talk about what they were reading, what they were up to, and how they were coping with strange times. We did it every day, which we probably never will again, and along the way found out it was fun and interesting to check in for a short chat. We're continuing that during 2021.
Ten Minutes with Jason Sizemore
The first "Ten Minutes with..." chat for 2021 is with Apex Magazine editor and publisher, Jason Sizemore. Apex is an award-winning magazine that publishes fantastic fiction. It paused publication due to illness, but is back with exciting new material in 2021. During our conversation Jason discusses the future of the magazine, watching Deadwood for the first time, and the fiction of Mary Doria Russell.
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Episode 540: The Last Official One for 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Since we’re as anxious as everyone else to finally escape 2020, this one is likely to be Jonathan and Gary’s final episode of the year, unless we think of something irresistible.
We start by reminding long-time listeners (or explaining to some for the first time) where the Coode Street name comes from, then honouring major figures we’ve lost in the last couple of weeks, including Ben Bova, Richard Corben, and Phyllis Eisenstein.
Then, as usual at this time of year, we reflect on some of the important and/or overlooked books we’ve read, the continually widening diversity of the field, some of the major works from major writers that appeared in 2020, and the most pleasant surprises of the year.
We wish you the best of holidays and hope to see you in 2021 when everything will be magically all better all at once. (Hey, we’re talking about SF here!)
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Episode 537: Ten Minutes with Charlie Jane Anders
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Tuesday Nov 03, 2020
Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and book lovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.
Hugo and Nebula winner Charlie Jane Anders talks about some new books she’s been reading by Rebecca Roanhorse, Holly Black, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Darcy Little Badger, some past favourites including Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Katherine Dunne, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and her own forthcoming YA trilogy—as well as the differences between writing YA and adult fiction.
Books mentioned include:
- Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black
- Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Elatsoe by Darcy Little Badger
- Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963–1973 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Episode 534: Ten Minutes with Sheila Williams
Sunday Oct 11, 2020
Sunday Oct 11, 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.
Hugo Award-winning Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams talk about the early days of the pandemic in Manhattan, the challenges of finding time to read anything other than the 800 submissions per month she sees at the magazine, her good luck to have travelled to Ireland and the Canary Islands just before the lockdown began, her new anthology in the Twelve Tomorrows series from MIT Press, and, of course, what she’s been reading.
Books mentioned include:
- Entanglements: Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends edited by Sheila Williams
- The Wright Sister by Patty Dann
- Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renee Thomas
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Episode 530: Ten Minutes with Julie Phillips
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
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Episode 521: Ten Minutes with Lisa Goldstein
Sunday Sep 20, 2020
Sunday Sep 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.
American Book Award winner Lisa Goldstein talks with Gary about her recent novel Ivory Apples, surviving California’s smoky air and a pandemic, trying to read The Decameron, the British comedian Jack Whitehall, comfort to be had from Tana French mysteries and Kage Baker time travel stories, and wrangling the characters in her novel in progress.
Books mentioned include:
- Ivory Apples by Lisa Goldstein
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- The Dublin Murder Squad series by Tana French
- The Company Series by Kage Baker
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Episode 510: Ten Minutes with Chaz Brenchley
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 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.
Today Jonathan fires up Skype to talk to Chaz Brenchley about the strange challenges of these times, the comfort to be found reading crime and mystery novels, living and working a short walk from SETI and NASA in Silicon Valley, combining girls school novels and steampunk (and the accompanying Mrs Bailey's Recipes for Medium), taking control of his own publishing, his new short story collection and more.
Crater School
Chaz has been working on a series of English girls' boarding-school stories set on Mars. You can sample the Charter School on his website and read more on his Patreon.
Books mentioned include:
- Everything in all the Wrong Order: The Best of Chaz Brenchley by Chaz Brenchley (forthcoming 2021)
- Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear
- Velocity Weapon by Megan E. O'Keefe
- Dr. Siri Paiboun Series by Colin Cotterill
- Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
- The Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes Series by Laurie R. King
- Slough House Series by Mick Herron