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Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
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Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 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.
World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winner Daryl Gregory comes on board for a discussion with Gary about how distracting the news can be from real work, reading manuscripts for blurbs or for friends, the new Lavie Tidhar novel, Island of Dr. Moreau movies, the virtues of Iain M. Banks, the occasional pleasures of locked-room murder mysteries, and Daryl’s own forthcoming but not yet titled novel.
Books mentioned include:
- Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
- By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar
- The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
- The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks
- The Hollow Man by John Dickson Carr
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Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 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.
Gary is joined by fellow Locus reviewer and author Adrienne Martini, whose recent book on participating in local politics has gained sterling reviews and even a shout-out from Hillary Clinton. They discuss the importance of local politics, the fate of the famous explorer ship Erebus, and the appeal of Mary Robinette Kowal and Robert A. Heinlein.
Books mentioned include:
- Somebody's Gotta Do It: Why Cursing at the News Won't Save the Nation, But Your Name on a Local Ballot Can by Adrienne Martini
- Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
- The Terror by Dan Simmons
- The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Friday and the Lazarus Long novels by Robert A. Heinlein
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Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 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.
All the way from Barbados, multiple award-winning author Karen Lord chats with Gary about how the lockdown is affecting life there, how the whole worldwide experience is liking moving into a new country where you don’t quite know all the rules, what reading to return to in such times, and her own new story "The Plague Doctors” (and discussion of the story) from the free anthology, Take Us to a Better Place: Stories.
Books mentioned include:
- Unravelling by Karen Lord
- The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton
- The City Watch, Witches, and Tiffany Aching novels by Terry Pratchett
- Take Us to a Better Place: Stories
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Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Tuesday Jun 02, 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.
If his recent conversation with John Berlyne saw Jonathan embrace the fact that Coode Street's ten minutes was at a best theoretical, then today's conversation blows that out of the water extending beyond 35 minutes, and still only being just barely long enough. Today Jonathan talks to writer and editor Simon Ings about art, despots, fabulous books, and unexpected experiences. Utterly essential listening. It's the most fun you'll have with earphones in for ages!
Books mentioned include:
- We Robots edited by Simon Ings
- Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- The Pike: Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
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Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
ETA: Due to an technical error, only one track on the audio was released earlier. We apologise for that and are providing an updated/corrected podcast now.
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 spends ten minutes talking with Claire McKenna about working, reading, and writing during difficult times, pirate utopias, the joys of old bestsellers, and her debut novel, Monstrous Heart.
Books mentioned include:
- Monstrous Heart by Claire McKenna
- Monsoon by Wilbur Smith
- Gondar by Nicholas Luard
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Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 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.
Jonathan spends ten minutes talking with Claire McKenna about working, reading, and writing during difficult times, pirate utopias, the joys of old bestsellers, and her debut novel, Monstrous Heart.
Books mentioned include:
- Monstrous Heart by Claire McKenna
- Monsoon by Wilbur Smith
- Gondar by Nicholas Luard
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Sunday May 31, 2020
Sunday May 31, 2020
Jonathan and Gary are back with a socially-distanced full-hour podcast. Since last time, Jonathan actually went and read the reviews for the podcast on the iTunes Podcast app where one listener described the Coode Street as being occasionally enlightening, saying when:
"the two hosts are left to their own devices (which is most of the time) they testily chew over a handful of pet topics, usually debating who should win each year's awards and then whether or not awards mean anything".
and rated the podcast Three stars.
Perfectly fair. Today's episode was recorded during the Nebula Awards presentation and days after the announcement of the Locus Awards shortlists. Both feature briefly, but our main topic was not awards. Rather we turned to more fundamental questions involving reasons to be optimistic about science fiction, the role of entertainment in reading SFF, what each of us values most in what we read, and, almost accidentally, some brief previews of exciting novels coming up later this year.
Hopefully the sound on today's episode is a bit better, the testiness is toned down, and you all enjoy!
Saturday May 30, 2020
Saturday May 30, 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 with the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning 'Hermit of Binghampton", Jack Dann, who checks in from his home in coastal Victoria to talk about life, art, books, and more.
Books mentioned include:
- Shadows in the Stone by Jack Dann
- Pluche or the Love of Art by Jean Dutourd
- The Best of R.A. Lafferty by R.A. Lafferty
- Masters of Science Fiction: Kate Wilhelm (2 vols.) by Kate Wilhelm
- Marque of Caine by Charles E. Gannon
- The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr by John Crowley
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
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