The Coode Street Podcast

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 award-winning author and ILM filmmaker Gregory Norman Bossert to talk about how the changes facing the movie industry may actually help new voices and new forms, the appeal of not-quite-classifiable stories of the New Weird and other contemporary movements, a new anthology in support of the nonprofit RAICES, podcasts and movies, and his own new short fiction. Short fiction mentioned includes: "The Night Soil Salvagers" by Gregory Norman Bossert (Tor.com, July) "Dear Boy" by Gregory Norman Bossert (Weird Fiction Review #10) "The Hearts of All" by Gregory Norman Bossert (Black Static #73) "Zima Blue" by Alastair Reynolds (and its TV adaptation on Love, Death, and Robots) Books mentioned include: The Unnamed Country by Jeffrey Thomas The Punktown series by Jeffrey Thomas The Troika by Stepan Chapman Vermilion Sands by J.G. Ballard Made to Order: Robots and Revolution by Jonathan Strahan, ed.,  Rambunctious by Rick Wilber Smoke Paper Mirrors by Anna Tambour The Finest Ass in the Universe by Anna Tambour The Well-Built City trilogy by Jeffrey Ford    

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      

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    

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       

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      

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      

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      

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        

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    

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