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Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
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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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Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 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.
Playwright, professor, director, and Carl Brandon and Otherwise-award winning writer Andrea Hairston talks with Gary about the necessity of reading during hard times, the appeal of hefty nonfiction titles as well as epic fantasy, the odd satisfaction of a virtual book tour, Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms, and her new novel Master of Poisons.
Books mentioned include:
- Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
- The Book of Lost Saints by Daniel José Older
- Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renee Thomas
- Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
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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
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Saturday Sep 19, 2020
Saturday Sep 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.
Hugo, Astounding, and British Fantasy Award-winning Jeannette Ng joins Gary from northern England, discussing what it’s like to live near stands of ancient trees, learning to "read" the trees, the folklore and symbology of yew, hawthorn, and mistletoe, the advantages of reading manga on e-devices, and the rewards of reading Jasper Fforde and D&D-related manga.
Books mentioned include:
- Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
- The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History by Rian Thum
- The Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde
- Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
- The Delicious in Dungeon series by Ryuko Kui
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Friday Sep 18, 2020
Friday Sep 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.
Crawford Award winner Stephanie Feldman joins Gary to talk about the unexpected complexities of virtual Kindergarten; writing about young adult characters and their attraction to the unknown; the appeal of short fiction by Daphne Du Maurier, Joan Aiken, and Angela Carter; the rewards of reading nonfiction; and her recent story "The Staircase" (published in the July 2020 issue of F&SF).
Books mentioned include:
- The Angel of Losses by Stephanie Feldman
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
- How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
- Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
- The Wolves Chronicles by Joan Aiken
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Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 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.
Today Jonathan spends ten minutes or so chatting with exciting debut novelist Andrea Stewart about living and working through the pandemic, the pleasures of reading, exciting new books by Kerstin Hall, Megan O'Keefe, and Lisbeth Campbell, and her own book, The Bone Shard Daughter.
Books mentioned include:
- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
- Star Eater by Kerstin Hall
- Inherit the Flame by Megan E. O'Keefe
- The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell
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Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 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.
Today Jonathan is joined by Aurealis Award-winning writer Jane Routley and they chat about how Jane's coping with the Melbourne shutdown and with being an essential worker, enjoying and participating in the New Zealand Worldcon, reading the Hugo nominees, watching The Umbrella Academy, American Gods, Tales from the Loop, and lots more.
Books mentioned include:
- Shadow in the Empire of Light by Jane Routley
- The Sandman by Neil Gaiman and others
- Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge
- Fly Trap by Frances Hardinge
- A Memory of Empire by Arkady Martine
- Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
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Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 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.
Science journalist, novelist and Hugo Award-winning podcaster Annalee Newitz joins Jonathan to chat about living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area during the pandemic, the joys of modern science fiction, their novel-in-progress The Terraformers, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
- Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz
- Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
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