The Coode Street Podcast

Episode 427: Ten Minutes with Lois McMaster Bujold

24 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 readi...

Episode 426: Ten Minutes with Ann VanderMeer

23 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 425: Ten Minutes with Jeremy Szal

21 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 424: Ten Minutes with Eileen Gunn

20 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 423: Ten Minutes with Theodora Goss

19 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 422: Ten Minutes with Robert Shearman

18 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 421: Ten Minutes with David Thomas Moore

17 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 420: Not Locked Down, Locked Up

17 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been two weeks since Jonathan and Gary sat down to chat for the podcast. In the interests of social distancing, they’ve had a replica of the ...

Episode 419: Ten Minutes with Kelly Robson

15 May 2020

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Episode 418: Ten Minutes with Joe Monti

14 May 2020

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Episode 417: Ten Minutes with Alyx Dellamonica

13 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 416: Ten Minutes with Brian Evenson

12 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 415: Ten Minutes with Rick Wilber

11 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 414: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Hand

10 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 413: Ten Minutes with Joe Abercrombie

09 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 412: Ten Minutes with Michael Swanwick

09 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 411: Ten Minutes with E Lily Yu

07 May 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 410: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch

06 May 2020

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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 read...

Episode 409: Ten Minutes with Kelly Barnhill

05 May 2020

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Episode 408: Ten Minutes with David Pomerico

04 May 2020

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Episode 407: Thirty Minutes with Nnedi Okorafor

03 May 2020

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Episode 406: On the Ten Minutes With Experience and more [REPOST]

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, returning to our customary format of rambling aimlessly for an hour or so, Jonathan and Gary share observations on what we are learning fro...

Episode 406: On the Ten Minutes With Experience and more

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, returning to our customary format of rambling aimlessly for an hour or so, Jonathan and Gary share observations on what we are learning fro...

Episode 405: Ten Minutes with James Patrick Kelly

03 May 2020

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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 read...

Episode 404: Ten Minutes with Nalo Hopkinson

02 May 2020

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Episode 403: Ten Minutes with Kim Stanley Robinson

30 Apr 2020

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Episode 402: Ten Minutes with Kate Elliott

29 Apr 2020

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Episode 401: Ten Minutes with M. Rickert

28 Apr 2020

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Episode 400: In which we turn 400...

27 Apr 2020

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Well, that was unexpected, wasn't it? After kicking off the Coode Street Podcast in May 2010 with no plans, no skills, and no technical knowledge, Gar...

Episode 399: Ten Minutes with Karen Joy Fowler

27 Apr 2020

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Episode 398: Ten Minutes with Paul McAuley

25 Apr 2020

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Episode 397: Ten Minutes with Joe Haldeman

24 Apr 2020

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Episode 396: Ten Minutes with Gillian Redfearn and Joe Hill

23 Apr 2020

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Episode 395: Ten Minutes with Christopher Rowe

22 Apr 2020

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Episode 394: Ten Minutes with Sofia Samatar

21 Apr 2020

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Episode 393: Ten Minutes with Charles Stross

20 Apr 2020

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Episode 392: Ten Minutes with Cory Doctorow

19 Apr 2020

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Episode 391: Ten Minutes with Martha Wells

18 Apr 2020

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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 read...

Episode 390: Ten Minutes with Alastair Reynolds

17 Apr 2020

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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 read...

Episode 389: Ten Minutes with Gwyneth Jones

16 Apr 2020

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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 read...

Episode 388: Ten Minutes with Ian McDonald

15 Apr 2020

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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 read...

Episode 387: Ten Minutes with Fran Wilde

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ten minutes with... sees Coode Street presenters Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe talk to readers and book lovers from around the world about what t...

Episode 386: Ten Minutes with Tade Thompson

13 Apr 2020

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Episode 385: Ten Minutes with Liz Williams

12 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 read...

Episode 384: Ten Minutes with Lavie Tidhar

11 Apr 2020

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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 read...

Episode 383: Ten Minutes with Angela Slatter

10 Apr 2020

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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 read...

Episode 382: Ten Minutes with Alex Irvine

09 Apr 2020

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Episode 381: Ten Minutes with Tamsyn Muir

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 read...

Episode 380: Ten Minutes with Andy Duncan

07 Apr 2020

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Episode 379: Ten Minutes with Ellen Klages

06 Apr 2020

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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 read...

Episode 378: Ten Minutes with Garth Nix

05 Apr 2020

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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 readi...

Episode 377: Books in the Time of Coronavirus

05 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Jonathan and Gary are back together (with no guests) for the first time in several weeks, and we discuss the inevitable: the current pandem...

Episode 376: Ten Minutes with Naomi Kritzer

04 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today Gary spends Ten Minutes with Naomi Kritzer, whose wonderful YA novel Catfishing on CatNet is a finalist for this year’s Andre Norton, Edga...

Episode 375: Ten Minutes with Jeffrey Ford

04 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

And we're doing it! One episode every day, without apology (almost)  Today Jonathan spends ten minutes with the incredible Jeffrey Ford who, despite ...

Episode 374: Ten Minutes with Tochi Onyebuchi

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today Jonathan spends ten minutes talking to the fabulous Tochi Onyebuchi about reading for pleasure, writing in a time of crisis, what he's been read...

Episode 373: Ten Minutes with Alix E. Harrow

01 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Last year saw the publication of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, the enchanting debut novel from Alix E. Harrow.  Today, in our continuing "Ten M...

Episode 372: Ten Minutes with James Bradley

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

And now for something a little different. Jonathan spends ten minutes with James Bradley, author of the fabulous new novel Ghost Species to discuss ...

Episode 371: Ten Minutes with Nisi Shawl

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today Gary Wolfe spends ten minutes with Nisi Shawl, who is currently preparing her introduction to the Library of America edition of Octavia Butler's...

Episode 370: Ten Minutes with Ian Mond

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the second of our all-new "Ten Minutes with..." series, Jonathan spends ten minutes (well, nearly twenty) with critic and reviewer Ian Mond talking...

Episode 369: Ten Minutes with Sarah Pinsker

29 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

And now for something a little different. With all of us staying indoors, the team at Coode Street thought it might be fun to get in touch with some o...

Episode 368: NK Jemisin and The City We Became

22 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Jonathan and Gary have a lively discussion with the wonderful N.K. Jemisin, mostly about her new novel The City We Became (you can read t...

Episode 367: Ken Liu and the Power of Good Story

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week Gary and Jonathan are joined by a long time friend of the podcast, Ken Liu, to discuss his new short story collection The Hidden Girl and Ot...

Episode 366: Apocalypse, awards, and others

22 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As usual on this week’s Coode Street, Jonathan and Gary discuss what they’ve been reading lately, with a particular focus on how apocalyptic fict...

Episode 365: On talking about SF (or chatting under the influence)

09 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In the second (or maybe third) episode in our new bi-weekly schedule, Jonathan and Gary eventually get around to the question of what books to recomme...

Episode 364: On being a fan

27 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week, after more or less inadvertently falling into a discussion of Simon Jimenez’s new novel The Vanished Birds (Del Rey) and whether it wil...

Episode 363: Books We're Looking Forward to in 2020

19 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After last week’s episode where Jonathan and Gary discussed their favourite books from 2019, this time they talk about books they're looking forward...

Episode 362: The Year in Review 2019

12 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

It's been a long time! Jonathan and Gary are together again for the first new episode of Coode Street since October! There's a lot to catch up on, ...

Episode 361: Jack Zipes at WFC 2019

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's been quiet here at Coode Street, of late. Jonathan has been working on books and recommended reading lists, and Gary has been travelling. Just t...

Episode 360: Margo Lanagan, Ellen Klages and Eileen Gunn at WFC 2019

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's been quiet here at Coode Street, of late. Jonathan has been working on books and recommended reading lists, and Gary has been travelling. Just t...

Episode 359: That Old Literary Divide

20 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

We're on a roll! Two episodes in two weeks. Surely it can't last! Gary has been reading Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel The Testaments ...

Episode 358: Science fiction, open borders, and porous boundaries

13 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, with Jonathan hard at work compiling his year’s best anthology, we revisit one of the oldest questions about science fiction—namely, wh...

Episode 357: Library of America and the year's end...

29 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As we approach the October Country, Jonathan and Gary start this week’s podcast discussing Gary’s new two-volume set from the Library of America, ...

Coode Street Roundtable 2.1: Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline

22 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first episode of the second season of The Coode Street Roundtable, a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panellists Ja...

Episode 356: Space opera, WorldCon, Campbell, and other unicorns

31 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After acknowledging that we failed to record a single podcast during the Dublin Worldcon, Jonathan and Gary compare notes about the con and the genera...

Episode 355: A short one

24 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Just before Gary K Wolfe and I went to Dublin for the WorldCon we recorded a short episode. We've been too busy to publish until now. And we do have n...

Episode 354: Influence, impact, the sense of wonder, and other critical missions

10 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week marks the publication of Jonathan’s new hard-SF anthology Mission Critical, the title of which reminded Gary of the first SF serial he r...

Episode 353: New projects and old books

17 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week Jonathan and Gary are back, fitting another episode in between travel, work, and family commitments. Gary opens up with a thoroughly reasona...

Episode 352: A Surplus of Us

18 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

With the Nebula Award winners about to be announced, we took a look this week at the question of whether science fiction has demonstrated much continu...

Episode 351: A Quick One

12 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After a much longer than expected hiatus, we're back (sort of)! Gary's been working and travelling and Jonathan's been working and planning to travel ...

Episode 350: Hey, well how about that?

31 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For our 350th(!) episode, Jonathan and Gary basically just ramble on. We begin with the question of how long to stick with a novel which seems to be g...

Episode 349: Sarah Pinsker on the road

09 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we are joined by Nebula Award-winning Sarah Pinsker, whose first story collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea has jus...

Episode 348: Nebulas, Hugos, ereading and more

24 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As usual at this time of year, Jonathan and Gary sit down to discuss the beginning of the awards season, and in particular the recently announced Nebu...

Episode 347: Charlie Jane Anders and The City in the Middle of the Night

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Jane Anders joins Jonathan and Gary to discuss her second novel, The City in the Middle of the Night, which will be in shops during the comin...

Episode 346: Neil Clarke and the State of Short Fiction in 2018

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week, as part of Coode Street's experimental trio of shorter episodes, Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke joins Jonathan and Gary to discuss the...

Episode 345: Liza Trombi, Locus, and the Year in Review

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is our more-or-less annual discussion with Locus magazine’s editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi, with whom we chat about the Recommende...

Episode 344: Time, Cities and Moving to the Poles

27 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

And we're back with our 344th episode, which one of us incorrectly thought was our 343rd because we counted 342 twice. Ugh. Apologies for the confusio...

Episode 343: Grand Masters and other Awards...

13 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Every episode starts with a blank slate, even when perhaps it should not. This week we start with the recent announcement that William Gibson has bee...

Episode 342: The Books of 2019

05 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

At the beginning of the new year, Jonathan and Gary compare lists of books they’re looking forward to in the new year, beginning with some novels ap...

Episode 341: 2018 Year in Review

01 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

After another long hiatus, Jonathan and Gary return with a ramble saying farewell to 2018 (actually recorded when it was still 2018 in Chicago and al...

Episode 340: Andy Duncan and the Road to Utopia

11 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The 2018 World Fantasy Convention was held in Baltimore, Maryland over the first weekend of November. People from all over the globe gathered, includi...

REPOST - Episode 339 - The Road to Baltimore

14 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A partial copy of this went out yesterday. Here's a full repost. Apologies to anyone downloading this one twice.

Episode 339: The Road to Baltimore

13 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With the 2018 World Fantasy Convention just weeks away, Gary and Jonathan sit down to discuss the upcoming convention, the life achievement recipient...

Episode 338: Alec Nevala-Lee, Andy Duncan, and the Astounding Legacy

29 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California this past August was a busy time. Thousands of science fiction and fantasy writers, readers, artists, publishers...

Episode 337: Rich Larson and the Future of Science Fiction (sort of)

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California this past August was a busy time. Thousands of science fiction and fantasy writers, readers, artists, publishers...

Episode 336: 2018 Novels to Read...

15 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Readers talk to other readers. They share information about the books and stories they love. They recommend. It's as natural as breathing. Those reco...

REISSUE - Episode 335: Karen Joy Fowler, James Patrick Kelly, and the Workshop Experience

12 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A re-release of episode 335. This should be 53 minutes long. --------------------------------------------   Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California this...

Episode 335: Karen Joy Fowler, James Patrick Kelly, and the Workshop Experience

09 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California this past August was a busy time. Thousands of science fiction and fantasy writers, readers, artists, publishers, ...

Episode 334: After San Jose

02 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We (Gary and Jonathan) went to WorldCon 76 in San Jose a week or so ago, or at least we were around while the convention was on and engaged in activi...

Episode 333: Jo Walton Goes to the Hugos

24 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We've been away for a long time. A very long time. We're sorry and we'll try not to do that again. While we were away, we went to San Jose, California...

Episode 332: Frankly, this one's a grab bag

17 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

With our customary meticulous planning, we manage this week to veer from the topic of what causes you to bounce off a particular book—or to keep rea...