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Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
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Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 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 a bit more than ten minutes talking to literary agent and editor DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency -- whose newsletter Publishing is Hard is essential reading -- about publishing during the pandemic, coping with being an involuntary voluntary shut-in, what he's reading and working on, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- The Sin in the Steel by Ryan Van Loan
- Savage Legion by Matt Wallace
- The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
- Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
- This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
- Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
- A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
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Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 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 and points it towards Kolkata to talk to Lambda Award winner and Crawford, Otherwise, and Shirley Jackson nominee Indrapramit Das about getting through the Great and Terrible Pause, what books he is reading and recommends, and his new story, "Incarnate", which appears in Ann VanderMeer's Avatars Inc. anthology.
Books mentioned include:
- The Devourers by Indrapramit Das
- Chosen Spirits by Samit Basu
- The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
- Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories edited by Ellen Datlow
- "The Mist" by Stephen King
- My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris
- Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories by Gilbert Hernández
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Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 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 Gary is joined by multiple award-winning author Nicola Griffith and they discuss the less-than-satisfactory challenges of the virtual cocktail party, the more satisfactory challenges of researching historical fiction and of reading Patrick O’Brian and others, the advantages of using genre as a set of tools rather than a container, her own So Lucky, her forthcoming sequel to Hild, and an exciting new as-yet-untitled book.
Books mentioned include:
- Nicola Griffith, So Lucky
- Nicola Griffith, Hild
- Nicola Griffith, The Aud Torvingen mysteries
- Sigrid Undset, Olav Audunssøn: The Vow, translated by Tiina Nunnally
- Maggie Brookes, The Prisoner’s Wife
- Octavia Butler, Kindred
- Patrick O’Brian, The Aubrey/Maturin novels
- Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave
- Rosemary Sutcliffe, Sword at Sunset
- Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven
- Susan Cooper, The Dark is Rising
- Sarah Waters, Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet
- Ellen Galford, Moll Cutpurse: Her True History
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Sunday Jun 07, 2020
Sunday Jun 07, 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 sits down to chat with Aurealis and Ditmar Award-winning writer Lisa L. Hannett about reading, writing and life during lock-in, the joy and challenges of suddenly being home all the time, her brand new book, and much more.
Books mentioned include:
- Songs for Dark Seasons by Lisa L. Hannett
- Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan
- Her Perilous Mansion by Sean Williams
- Network Effect by Martha Wells
- Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
- The Ruth Galloway Novels by Elly Griffiths
- Galore by Michael Crummey
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Saturday Jun 06, 2020
Saturday Jun 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.
Gary joins Hugo and Nebula-winning author Terry Bisson to talk about historical fiction, R.A. Lafferty’s most important novel, James Salter, reading Shakespeare’s history plays, the Globe Theater, Cecelia Holland, The Blair Witch Project, Terry’s own classic short stories "Bears Discover Fire" and "They’re Made of Meat," and his brilliant but overlooked novel of the 1960s, Any Day Now.
Books mentioned include:
- Any Day Now by Terry Bisson
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
- Okla Hannali by R.A. Lafferty
- Last Night: Stories by James Salter
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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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