The Coode Street Podcast

Episode 94: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Andy Duncan and Karen Joy Fowler!

With the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in full swing, Gary called in with Andy Duncan and Karen Joy Fowler to discuss genre, short stories, writing novels, Andy's first short story collection in eleven years, The Pottawottamie Giant and Other Stories, and much more! As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Episode 93: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Peter Straub!

With the Gene Wolfe event about to hit full swing in sunny Chicago, all sorts of fun things are happening in the windy city. This morning (Perth time) our good friend Peter Straub was visiting Gary's  stylish Chicago pied-à-terre, so we fired up the podcast and had a pre-dinner chat about literary boundaries, modern horror, writing, Caitlin Kiernan and much much more.  As always, our thanks to Peter for joining us. We hope that you'll enjoy the podcast. Next week: ICFA!

Episode 92: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Michael Dirda!

This week we're joined by Pulitzer Prize award winning critic Michael Dirda to discuss his new book on Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Gene Wolfe and the golden age of story. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Episode 91: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda recently reviewed Keith Roberts' magestic novel, Pavane, in The Washington Post, describing it as a fix-up novel, a term coined by the late A.E. van Vogt. The review sparked a conversation about fix-ups, what they are and where the term comes from, and how terminology forms in the SF field. It's digressive, unresearched, and un-factchecked, but at least it's not talking about awards. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

Episode 90: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

And then we rambled... After several weeks hosting some wonderful guests, this week Gary and I just fired up Skype and rambled away about stuff: the Nebulas, some old Hugos, whether having a Golden Age at all is a good idea.  While we apologise for the self-indulgence, we nonetheless hope you enjoy the podcast.  Only ten more till the big one!

Episode 89: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Barry Malzberg!

This week Gary and I are joined by Campbell Memorial Award winning author Barry Malzberg to discuss the Library of America's American Science Fiction Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s, how the '50s were the last "Hot Time" in science fiction (or not), and other matters science fictional.  As always, we hope you enjoy the discussion.

Episode 88: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ellen Kushner!

This week we invited award-winning actor, broadcaster, editor and writer Ellen Kushner to join us to discuss the excellent audiobook adaptation of her novel Swordspoint, which was recently released by Audible, her thoughts on the rise of audiobooks, and her many other projects..

• The Witches of Lublin (Audible); and
• the audiobook of Swordspoint (US information; UK information).

We would like to apologise for the audio quality of some of the podcast, which is a little below what we'd normally hope for.  Our primary recording of the 'cast failed, but we were saved by our newly installed backup recording system.  We continue our hunt for improvements, but in the interim thank Ellen, and look forward to seeing you all next week.

Episode 87: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

This weekend Gary and I discussed the Locus Recommended Reading list (very briefly), Gwenda Bond's wonderful news, Saladin Ahmed's new novel, subgenre's and answered a lot of reader questions from Twitter. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!