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Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
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Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 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.
Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls Stoker and British Fantasy Award winner Usman T. Malik to discuss living in Lahore during the current times, how it impacts reading, writing and the ability to work, classic horror, the tales of your culture, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights (in 3 vols) translated by Malcolm Lyons
- The Merman and the Book of Power: A Qissa by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 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 talking with multiple award winner Aliette de Bodard about reading and writing during these difficult and distracting times, the joys of reading romance novels, pirates and the South China Sea, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard
- Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
- Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders by Aliette de Bodard
- Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China by J. Antony Robert
- She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
- Lord of the Last Heartbeat by May Peterson
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Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 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 takes ten minutes or so to talk with Hugo and British Fantasy Award winner Zen Cho about reading and writing during the time of the pandemic, the comforts of British wartime children's stories, Murderbot, the perennial attraction of Jane Austen, and her upcoming novella, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water.
Books mentioned include:
- The Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho
- The True Queen by Zen Cho
- The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
- Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
- The Skylarks' War by Hilary McKay
- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
- The Novels of Jane Austen
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Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 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.
World Fantasy Award winner Tobias S. Buckell talks with Gary about life in a small town during the lockdown, the terrific South Korean TV series The Kingdom, the advantages of audiobooks and graphic novels, new stories coming up in Escape Pod ("The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity"), Slate ("Scar Tissue"), and Motherboard ("Zombie Capitalism"), and the problems of dealing with wild boar.
Books mentioned include:
- The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Aeneid by Vergil
- The Gentleman Bastard Series by Scott Lynch
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Sunday Jun 14, 2020
Sunday Jun 14, 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 about thirty minutes talking to Dave Hutchinson about reading and writing during the Great and Terrible Pause, the novels of Len Deighton, an unexpected follow-up to The Fractured Europe Sequence, a brand new Fractured Europe novelette "Nightingale Floors" (from Ian Whates's forthcoming anthology London Centric: Future Tales of London), and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man by Dave Hutchinson
- The Fractured Europe Sequence by Dave Hutchinson
- The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy by Hilary Mantel
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The Bernard Samson Series by Len Deighton
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Saturday Jun 13, 2020
Saturday Jun 13, 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 with Hugo and World Fantasy Award-nominated writer and artist Kathleen Jennings to discuss reading and working in the time of the pandemic, the comfort of regency romances, illustrating The Tallow Wife, watching Hamish Macbeth, her new short novel Flyaway, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings
- Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer
- Chalk by Paul Cornell
- Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
- The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
- Witchmark by C. L. Polk
- Alternate Routes by Tim Powers
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Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 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.
Ellen Datlow joins Gary to discuss her 40-year career, the longevity of earlier editors, her reasons for doing best-of-the-year anthologies and year-in-review essays, favorite writers like William Gibson and Jonathan Carroll, the recent Shirley Jackson biography, and the appeal of dark fiction.
Books mentioned include:
- Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories edited by Ellen Datlow
- Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles edited by Ellen Datlow
- Edited By edited by Ellen Datlow
- Bathing the Lion by Jonathan Carroll
- Mr. Breakfast by Jonathan Carroll
- Flicker by Theodore Roszak
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
- Life Among the Savages by Shirley Jackson
- Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson
- Worse Angels by Laird Barron
- The Deep by Alma Katsu
- The Hunger by Alma Katsu
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Thursday Jun 11, 2020
Thursday Jun 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.
Today Jonathan fires up Skype and call Dhaka in Bangladesh so he can talk to Saad Z. Hossain, the wonderful author of Escape from Baghad, Djinn City, and Locus Award nominee The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday about living and working in Dhaka at a time like this, the state of genre fiction, what he's been reading, his upcoming new novella Kundo Wakes Up and more.
Books mentioned include:
- Djinn City by Saad Z. Hossain
- The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hossain
- The Count of Monte Christo by Alexandre Dumas
- One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn by Eiichiro Oda
- Miles Cameron series
- The Novels of Jane Austen
- The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks
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