The Coode Street Podcast
Episodes
Episode 331: On missing Gardner Dozois
10 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and Jonathan spend some time discussing the work and legacy of Gardner Dozois (1947-2018), who died recently. A friend and colleague, ...
Episode 330: Books, reading and wolves...
06 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s episode ranges from a discussion about the growing importance of novellas and their advantages both for readers and writers, the difficu...
Episode 329: Sam Miller and the Art of Living in the World
22 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the always bustling Coode Street Motel battles technical difficulties, sound dropouts, and other gremlins of the Skypesphere to welcome S...
Episode 328: Re-reading, reprinting and the classics
07 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gary was looking through the books that seem to tumble endlessly through his front door for review and came across a new edition of David R. Bunch's...
Episode 327: Awards, climate fiction and more
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jonathan and Gary discuss the parameters of climate-influenced SF, the usefulness or not of the term 'cli-fi' (with increasing numbers of S...
Episode 326: After ICFA
25 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gary is back from the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, where he chatted quite a bit with guests of honour John Kessel and Nike Su...
Episode 325: World Fantasy Awards, Kate Wilhelm and more
11 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With nominations for the 2018 Hugo Awards closing shortly, Jonathan and Gary headed to the Gershwin Room to discuss nominating for the Hugos, the rec...
Episode 324: Carmen Maria Machado
25 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Carmen Maria Machado's debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was shortlisted for the National Book Award it went to the top ...
Episode 323: Awards season begins...Hugo time!
18 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every year Gary and Jonathan sit down and start talking about "awards season", a short period in the science fiction year that runs from February to N...
Episode 322: Theodora Goss, John Kessel and Monstrous Stories
27 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, we are joined by two authors whos...
REPOST: Episode 71: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin!
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Six years ago Gary Wolfe and I were privileged enough to get to chat with Ursula K. Le Guin about science fiction. The reason for the discussion was ...
Episode 321: Fairy tales, peaches, and so on...
21 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Normal service resumes with a rambly episode after last week's chat with Jane Yolen. Having decided what they were going to discuss beforehand, Gary a...
Episode 320: Jane Yolen and a Life in Story
14 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Coode Street Podcast returns for 2018 with a very special opening episode. Today Gary and Jonathan sat down to talk with SFWA Grand Master, World ...
Episode 319: The Books of 2018
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the brief hiatus between Christmas and New Year, a final episode for 2018. Jonathan and Gary take a moment to sit down in the Gershwin Room and di...
Episode 318: The End of the Year
17 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After our longest break ever, the Coode Street Podcast returns to regular programming with a discussion of the year in review. Gary and Jonathan disc...
Episode 317: Irene Gallo and the Art of Science Fiction
29 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by Chesley and World Fantasy Award-winning designer, art director, editor and publisher Irene Gallo to discuss how she came t...
Episode 316: Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Warrior, Binti, and Beyond
30 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we’re joined by the fabulous Nnedi Okorafor, whose Akata Warrior (sequel to Akata Witch) will be published next week, and whose Binti:...
Episode 315: Liz Bourke, Niall Harrison and Debut Novels of 2017
24 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we are joined by distinguished critics Niall Harrison, late of Strange Horizons, and Liz Bourke, whose latest collection of reviews and ess...
Episode 314: Annalee Newitz and Telling Stories About the Future
16 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Annalee Newitz, who writes on the cultural impact of science and technology for Ars Technica and who founded and edited io9.com, delivers her debut no...
Episode 313: Jeffrey Ford and The Twilight Pariah
10 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and Jonathan are joined by long-time friend of the podcast, Jeffrey Ford. Jeff is the winner of the Nebula, World Fantasy, and Shirley ...
Episode 312: Fantasy 101, Helsinki and more
02 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After a long and mostly unplanned hiatus, we're back! We travelled to Helsinki, Finland to attend WorldCon75, and then spent time travelling and not t...
Episode 311: Walter Jon Williams, Kelly Robson and Helsinki!
02 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
And now for something special! During the recent WorldCon, held in Helsinki, Finland, Gary and Jonathan took to the stage to talk to WorldCon guest o...
Episode 310: The Years Best Books So Far, the XPrize and more
01 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We were away! We came back! We missed you! After an unexpected four week hiatus, and with another four week hiatus coming up, Gary and Jonathan took s...
Episode 309: Epic fantasy, Campbell Awards and more
05 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Gary and Jonathan are back with a rambling conversation that touches on epic fantasy and its relationship to privilege, the recently announced Campbel...
Episode 308: Paul Kincaid, Ken Macleod, and the works of Iain (M) Banks
21 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Any time the Coode Street Podcast connects with the United Kingdom it's a special occasion. Jonathan stays up until the dead of night (often with a w...
Episode 307: Theodora Goss and the Alchemist's Daughter
07 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk with the multi-talented Theodora Goss, whose forthcoming novel, The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, draws not only from ...
Episode 306: Geoff Ryman and 100 African Writers of SFF
29 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by Nebula, Clarke, Tiptree, Campbell, and World Fantasy Award winner Geoff Ryman to discuss his important new project, 100 Af...
Episode 305: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Drowning of New York
17 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined by the delightful and provocative Kim Stanley Robinson, to discuss his new novel New York 2140, his “comedy of coping” abou...
Episode 304: A New Theory of Science Fiction
02 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
That sounds a bit grandiose, doesn't it? We're back rambling, and this week we discuss some of our recent reading (Jonathan finished reading his secon...
Episode 303: John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly at ICFA
23 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary is in Orlanda, Florida for the International Conference on the Fantastic Arts. Despite being thousands of miles away, across aligator-i...
Episode 302: The State of Short Fiction
19 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we welcome a record number of guests for a lively discussion of the state of short fiction. We discuss whether or not we’re currently in a...
Episode 301: On Literary fiction and genre, the moon and more
12 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week, after an unintended break because of deadlines and workload, Gary and Jonathan return to the Gershwin Room to discuss the burning questio...
Episode 300: Kij Johnson Exploring Old Worlds
26 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and Jonathan are joined by Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winning writer Kij Johnson to discuss her Nebula Award nominated novel...
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 4: Paul McAuley's Into Everywhere
19 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Repost With awards season upon us, we thought it might be worthwhile to re-release our spoiler heavy roundtable discussions for last year. The fourth ...
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 3: Patricia A. McKillip's Kingfisher
14 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Repost With awards season upon us, we thought it might be worthwhile to re-release our spoiler heavy roundtable discussions for last year. The first 2...
REPOST: Episode 299: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Year in Review
13 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For our 299th episode, we are joined once again by Locus editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi for our annual discussion of the Locus Magazine recommend...
Episode 299: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Year in Review
12 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For our 299th episode, we are joined once again by Locus editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi for our annual discussion of the Locus Magazine recommend...
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 2: Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky
08 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Repost With awards season upon us, we thought it might be worthwhile to re-release our spoiler heavy roundtable discussions for last year. The first 2...
Episode 298: Lisa Yaszek, Kathleen Ann Goonan and Sisters of Tomorrow
04 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined in our luxurious Coode Street studio by Lisa Yaszek, co-editor (with Patrick B. Sharp) of Sisters of Tomorrow: The First Wome...
Episode 297: Politics and science fiction
29 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week we return to the Gershwin Room to discuss what we’ve been reading lately, what we’re anticipating, what do you when you encounter a sto...
Episode 296: A Return to Normal Programming
21 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's a brand new day. A dark, scary depressing day, maybe, but a brand new one. With the 45th president of the United States of America sworn in, Gary...
Episode 295a: Ellen Klages reads from Passing Strange
17 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As promised, the wonderful Ellen Klages reads from her forthcoming book Passing Strange. The short reading starts about halfway into a story about two...
Episode 295: Ellen Klages and Passing Strange
15 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
And we're back! The bar has been re-stocked, the carpets have been steam cleaned, and we're ready to go. For the first podcast of 2017, long time frie...
Episode 294: Just a Song Before We Go (on hiatus)
11 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The end of the year is upon us, and plans are subject to change. Our intention to do a bunch of end-of-the year episodes has been set aside because of...
Episode 293: James Bradley, Ian Mond and Coode Street's Year in Review
04 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the end of the year and time to talk about how it went, what’s worth reading, what could end up on your holiday gift lists, and what could be...
Episode 292: Short fiction, defining fantasy and more
20 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we find ourselves talking about the resurgence of the novella in fantasy and SF, the possible reasons behind it, the changes in recent print...
Episode 291: Radio Free America
13 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
After a week off, we return to discuss just how science fictional the recent American elections are, whether political science fiction has ever had mu...
Episode 290: David Levine and Fran Wilde
30 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, from the World Fantasy Convention in Columbus, Ohio, Gary is joined by Hugo-winning David Levine (Arabella of Mars) and Andre Norton-win...
Episode 289: Baseball, Bob and more
23 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Coode Street Podcast stumbles towards its three hundredth episode with another discursive chat between co-hosts Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolf...
Episode 288: Kai Ashante Wilson and A Taste of Honey
15 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we sit down with Crawford Award winning author Kai Ashante Wilson to discuss his fiction, his career and the pros and cons of being a late s...
Episode 287: The Series Hugo and more
08 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
After last week's experiments with audio ended up in a lost recording, this week we turned to more traditional methods to make sure we'd be bringing y...
Episode 286: Eugene Fischer and Jo Walton
24 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the final of our conversations recorded during MidAmericon 2, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention, in Kansas City, we sit down with Hugo and...
Episode 285: Connie Willis and Crosstalk
15 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Connie Willis to discuss her new novel, Crosstalk, which is just out in the UK from ...
Episode 284: Alastair Reynolds, Revenger and the Far, Far Future
10 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by the estimable Alastair Reynolds, celebrating the publication of his new space-pirate adventure tale Revenger and his col...
Episode 283: Kelly Robson and the Waters of Versailles
03 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When Gary and I were in Kansas City for MidAmericon 2, the 74th World Science Fiction Convention last month, we were fortunate enough to sit down wit...
Coode Street Roundtable 7: Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station
28 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the seventh episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James...
Episode 282: Michael Swanwick, Kij Johnson and the Craft of Short Fiction
25 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past several years we've been fortunate to record episodes of the Coode Street Podcast in front of a live audience. One of the highlights ...
Episode 281: Liza Trombi, books we're looking forward to, and more
03 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in a quick episode recorded between hiatuses, we are joined by Locus Editor-in Chief Liza Groen Trombi to discuss the upcoming WorldCon, ho...
Episode 280: The Project of SF
24 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
After our longest hiatus so far, Jonathan is back from Italy and Gary is back from Readercon, and we ramble on about such questions as whether modern ...
Coode Street Roundtable 6: Madeline Ashby's Company Town
26 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the sixth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James ...
Episode 279: Tom Reamy, posterity and the death of the midlist
19 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Before Coode Street goes on hiatus for a few weeks when each of us travel to various exotic realms, we address a question which Jonathan raised about ...
Episode 278: Life achievement and such
13 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend Gary and Jonathan found time amongst their growing commitments to grab an hour or so and sit down over a microphone and discuss the World...
Coode Street Roundtable 5: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Children of Earth and Sky
04 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the fifth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James ...
Episode 277: Books we're looking forward to...
29 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We nearly did it. We nearly stayed on topic… This week, we reminisce briefly about six years of the Coode Street Podcast (an anniversary we over...
Episode 218: Harlan Ellison, Bill Schafer and the Volcano
28 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We don't often do this, but in recognition of Harlan Ellison's 82nd birthday we thought we'd republish the episode from 2015 where Gary and Bill Shaf...
Episode 276: Storms, outages and awards
22 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Winter is coming. Well, in Perth. An early storm huffed and puffed and knocked the power out part way through a ramble on awards and longevity (or som...
Episode 275: Jack Dann and PS Australia
07 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week writer, editor and now publisher Jack Dann, a long-time friend of the podcast, joins Jonathan and Gary to discuss his role in launching n...
Coode Street Roundtable 4: Paul McAuley's Into Everywhere
01 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the fourth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James ...
Episode 274: A step to the left...
25 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As we head into our third straight week without a guest on the podcast, we confront our lack of organisation with a smile and a nod. We actually sat d...
Episode 273: Here we go again
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s ramble touches upon a bunch of issues, from Hugo nominations and awards (of course) to what it takes to be called a major science fictio...
Episode 272: Awards, anthologies and all the usual stuff
10 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Following last week's announcement of DragonCon's new Dragon Awards, we once again return to the topic of awards proliferation; begin our discussion o...
Episode 271: Lavie Tidhar and pushing at boundaries
03 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are delighted to be joined by Lavie Tidhar, whose Jerwood Fiction Underwood Prize Award winning novel A Man Lies Dreaming has just appea...
Coode Street Roundtable 3: Patricia A. McKillip's Kingfisher
27 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the third episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James...
Episode 270: Spinoffs, copyright, awards and such
05 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
On our 270th episode, we immediately distracted ourselves from our planned topic of catching up on news, awards nominations, etc., and instead rambled...
Coode Street Roundtable 2: Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky
27 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists Jame...
Episode 269: Creating the Fantasy Canon
26 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, at the World Fantasy Convention held in Saratoga Springs, a panel was presented on 'Creating the Fantasy Canon'. The panel description wa...
Episode 268: Peter Straub and Interior Darkness
21 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by World Fantasy Award Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and long-time friend of the podcast Peter Straub, to discuss his b...
Episode 267: Neil Clarke and Short Fiction
07 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by multiple award-winning editor and publisher Neil Clarke of Clarkesworld magazine, discussing his provocative October 201...
Episode 266: Prolificity and Academia
31 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Tonight we discuss, as we do all too often, the beginning of the awards season, as well as the sometimes problematical Hugo category of Best Related ...
Coode Street Roundtable 1: Adam Roberts' The Thing Itself
30 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a new monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists Ja...
Episode 265: David Hartwell and the beginning of 2016
24 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For our first podcast recorded in 2016, beginning our sixth year, we discuss the remarkable career of David G. Hartwell, the role of editors in shapi...
Episode 264: Glen Cook and Steven Erikson
15 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing the series of podcasts we recorded in Saratoga Springs at the World Fantasy Convention, we sat down with distinguished fantasy writers Glen...
Episode 263: Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
10 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Two of the powerhouse writers of their generation, bestselling fantasy novelist Scott Lynch and award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Eliza...
Episode 262: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Charlie Jane Anders in Saratoga
02 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
One of the highlights of the 2015 World Fantasy Convention in November was when Gary and Jonathan got to sit down with Guest of Honor Chelsea Quinn Ya...
Episode 261: Gene Wolfe, John Clute and A Borrowed Man
27 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first of Coode Street’s seasonal hiatus episodes. This November Gary and Jonathan were in Saratoga Springs for the World Fantasy Conv...
Episode 260: The Best of the Year with Charlie Jane Anders and Nisi Shawl
22 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the final episode of the Coode Street Podcast to be recorded for 2015. This week Gary and Jonathan are joined by award-winning wr...
Episode 259: The Best of the Year with Paul Kincaid and Adam Roberts
12 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The year is fast running out, but with the holiday season approaching Gary and Jonathan invited award-winning writers and critics Paul Kincaid and Ada...
Episode 258: Jim Minz and Baen Books
28 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
With the year coming all too quickly to a close, this week we are joined by distinguished veteran editor Jim Minz, who discusses his career from his ...
Episode 257: The end of the year approaches
24 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This year isn't over yet, but we can just see the end of it over the horizon. Back in Chicago and Perth after their visit to Saratoga Springs, Gary an...
Episode 256: Suzy McKee Charnas and Pamela Sargent
12 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
And we're back with a new episode! This week, from the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, we are joined by the genuinely iconic Pamela Sa...
Episode 255: Eleanor Arnason, Linda Nagata and Women in Science Fiction
24 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week, in our continuing series of discussions about the experiences of women writers in the science fiction field, we are fortunate to be joined ...
Episode 254: Meeting Infinity and Losing the Alien
18 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and Jonathan are back in the Gershwin Room, killing time and talking about Jonathan's new anthology Meeting Infinity, which we discuss ...
Episode 253: SF Lectures, The Martian and more
11 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary returns from the wilds of Virginia or Washington DC or somewhere or other on the US Eastern seaboard. We discuss his experience writing...
Episode 252: Cecelia Holland and Dragon Heart
02 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week we welcome distinguished historical novelist Cecelia Holland back to the podcast to discuss her new fantasy novel Dragon Heart, her classic ...
Episode 251: Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Women in Science Fiction
16 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are joined by multiple award winning writer and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch who discusses her long and diverse career in science fict...
Stories by Waldrop, Klages and Shepard
08 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The glory days of 2003 when I was going to review every short story that I read and publish it at The Coode Street Review of Science Fiction. Sanity p...
Episode 250: Forthcoming books with Liza Trombi
06 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Every three months Locus publishes a long list of forthcoming science fiction, fantasy, and horror books that are being published in the US and the ...
Jonathan on Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown
31 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Following on from yesterday's podcast discussion with Zen Cho about her new novel, Jonathan delivers a short audio review of Sorcerer to the Crown. ...
Episode 249: Zen Cho and Sorcerer to the Crown
30 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week Coode Street welcomes Zen Cho, who received the Crawford Award earlier this year for her story collection Spirits Abroad and whose deligh...
Jonathan on Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora
28 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In keeping with yesterday's quick squib about Limekiller, here's another short piece of review/commentary, this time about Kim Stanley Robinson's Au...