The Coode Street Podcast
Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe
Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Jun 15, 2014 • 1h 7min
Episode 193: Academic Exercises, genre and pants
This week Gary is back from Florida and our brief hiatus is at an end. We discuss K J Parker's Academic Exercises, some movies seen by Gary, and genre nerdiness. We also answer some questions from the audience, and try not to talk about pants.
As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!
Jun 1, 2014 • 1h 3min
Episode 192: Anne Leckie, gender and Ancillary Justice
Fresh from winning the Kitschie, the BSFA, the Clarke, and the Nebula Award, Ann Leckie joins us on the podcast to discuss Ancillary Justice, writing the Imperial Radsch trilogy, gender in SF, and a lot, lot more.
As always, we would like to thank Ann for joining us, and hope you enjoy the podcast. We're off air next week, but will return on June 15 with a new episode. Till then, enjoy!
May 24, 2014 • 1h 2min
Episode 191: Jeff VanderMeer and the Southern Reach
An exciting week at Coode Street as New York Times bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer joins us in the Gershwin Room to discuss his new "Southern Reach" trilogy, the Hugo Award-nominated Wonderbook and much, much more.
As always, our thanks to Jeff for joining us, and we hope you enjoy the podcast. See you next week!
May 18, 2014 • 1h 5min
Episode 190: James Bradley, science fiction, awards and more
With Gary busy with other commitments. long-time friend of the podcast James Bradley drops by to talk about his new upcoming novel Clade, the value of science fiction, awards, and more.
Our sincere thanks to James for making the time to chat, and, as always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!
May 11, 2014 • 1h 6min
Episode 189: Joe Abercrombie, Half a King and dark fantasy
This week we are joined by Joe Abercrombie, internationally best-selling author of the 'First Law' novels. His latest book Half-a-King, his first for young adults is due in-store in July. We discuss the novel, epic fantasy, how seriously epic fantasy is taken in the genre, and much more.
As always, we'd like to thank Joe for taking the time to be part of the podcast. We'd also like to thank Stefan's Books for their assistance with this podcast. We hope you enjoy the episode!
May 3, 2014 • 1h 11min
Episode 188: Mary Rickert and The Memory Garden
With debut novel The Memory Garden just days from release, and a major new novella "The Mothers of Voorhisville" out at Tor.com, Mary Rickert joins our intrepid podcasters to discuss her novel, writing, mid-West Gothic, and many, many more interesting things.
As always, we'd like to thank Mary for joining us and hope you enjoy the podcast!
Apr 27, 2014 • 1h 4min
Episode 187: On the perception of SF today and some rambling
It's been a while since our two intrepid podcasters journeyed together to the Gershwin Room high above the Coode Street Motel Six to ramble over an early morning cup of coffee and late evening glass of wine, but with little else to discuss that is just what they did.
In a rambling discussing they touched on how science fiction is perceived today, whether the views of an author should impact on how you read their written work, awards (of course), and what they mean by 'of this parish'.
As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast. We're still setting the schedule for the next few weeks, but expect to hear from Joe Abercrombie, Anne Leckie, Jeff VanderMeer, and others.
Apr 20, 2014 • 1h 19min
Episode 186: Hugo Awards 2014 with John DeNardo and Tansy Rayner Roberts repost
Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the nominees for the 2014 Hugo and Campbell Awards. As is our practice, this week we have a special episode of the podcast devoted to discussing the awards and all of the wonderful nominees. We are very grateful to John De Nardo (of SF Signal) and Tansy Rayner Roberts (Galactic Suburbia and Verity) for joining us for what we think is an interesting conversation.
We would also like to thank all of our listeners for nominating Coode Street for our third consecutive Best Fancast Hugo Award. We could not be happier, or more grateful.
As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast and we’ll be back next week with more!
Other links: Larry Correia and the Sad Puppy Hugo slate.
Apr 13, 2014 • 1h 5min
Episode 185: Heinlein, Awards and such
With awards season picking up, we try to avoid talking about them and pretty much fail. There is other stuff: on reading Heinlein today and the new bio that's coming out, who would make the Big 5 in SF now etc.
It's a bit rambly, it's a bit Coode St. As always we hope you enjoy it!
Apr 6, 2014 • 1h 6min
Episode 184: Nnedi Okorafor and Lagoon
On the eve of the publication of her new adult science fiction novel, Lagoon, the wonderful Nnedi Okorafor joins our intrepid podcasts to discuss the evolution of the book, what she's been working on since we last spoke in April 2012, Nigerian literature, and much more.
As always, our thanks to Nnedi and we hope you all enjoy the podcast.
Other books mentioned in the podcast:
Wizard of the Crow, Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Lagos 2060, Ayodele Arigbabu (ed.)
NB: This post was retitled from Lagoon and Nigerian Fiction to more correctly reflect the content of the podcast.="">
