The Coode Street Podcast
Episodes
Episode 150: Live with John Crowley and Peter Straub!
13 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Coode Street Podcast, or part of it, is on the move! With Readercon 24 in full swing, Gary has travelled to Burlington, Massachusetts...
Episode 149: Awards, Matheson and the Year to Date
07 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In what is definitely the latest official instalment of the Coode Street Podcast, Gary and Jonathan sneak past the Jerome Kern Memorial Habachi Stand ...
Episode 148: Playing for time
29 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
As any regular listener knows all too well, hotel wifi is an unreliable friend. With Gary away in Seattle at the Locus Awards weekend, we recorded t...
Episode 147: Live with M. John Harrison!
22 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week M. John Harrison, award-winning author of Viriconium, The Course of the Heart, the "Empty Space" trilogy, and Climbers, joins Gary and Jonat...
Episode 146: Live with E. Lily Yu!
16 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're delighted to welcome E. Lily Yu to the podcast. We discuss her work, writing, and all sorts of other stuff. As always, we hope you e...
Episode 145: Live with Christopher Barzak and Mary Rickert
03 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week, following a failed attempt at Wiscon, the incredible M. Rickert and Christopher Barzak make the long Skype-complicated journey to the Gersh...
Episode 144: On bookstores and lifetime achievement
27 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With Gary just returned from Madiscon, Wisconsin, the glorious Concourse Hotel and the fun of Wiscon 37, where hotel wi-fi frustrated plans for live p...
Episode 143: A journey from new SF to politicised editing
18 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Once again our hardy commentators, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe, climbed the stairs to the Waldorf Room, high above the Coode Street Motel Six, ...
Episode 142: After an unexpectedly long hiatus, a return!
11 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
After an extended break caused by travel and illness, our intrepid science fictioneers return to the Waldorf Room to continue their ongoing discussion...
Episode 141: Oh, no! Another awards discussion
13 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
There really wasn't much excuse, except that our two heroes found themselves in the Gershwin Room with no idea at all about what they would discuss an...
Episode 140: Live with Nalo Hopkinson
07 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we invited award-winning writer and anthologist Nalo Hopkinson to join us in the Waldorf Room to discuss her writing career, science fiction...
Episode 139: Live with Kij Johnson
31 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This morning Lonestarcon, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, released the 2013 Hugo Awards Ballots. The Coode Street Podcast was nominated f...
Episode 138: Live with Joe and Gay Haldeman
23 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Returning from a brief hiatus, this week the Coode Street team avoided the Gershwin Room, instead heading down to Florida for the International Con...
Episode 137: The rambling continues
10 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Back from Gotham and certain celebrations, Gary joins Jonathan in the Gershwin Room to discuss the newly released Tiptree shortlist, Hugo nominations,...
Episode 136: On Benchmarks, Budrys and awards
24 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In amongst life's many demands, the intrepid Coode Street team, madly humming the theme to the Muppet Show, once again ascended to the Waldorf Room to...
Episode 135: Cecelia Holland on River of Stars
18 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and Jonathan are joined in the Waldorf Room by the fabulous Cecelia Holland, leading historical novelist and author of Floating World...
Episode 134: On digital texts
10 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Once again, with almost no preparation, we head up to the Gershwin Room and end up discussing reviewing, digital texts, and other related issues. As a...
Episode 133: On Locus, recommended reading, Neptune's Brood and more
03 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week the Coode Street team headed back to the Waldorf Room high in the Coode Street Motel Six to discuss the annual Locus Year in Review issue, t...
Episode 132: On context, books, and awards
26 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Back to the Waldorf Room where, in troubled times, the Coode Street podcast team meet to discuss publishing artifacts as framing devices, Bruce Sterli...
Episode 131: Live with Nancy Kress!
19 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With Gary's commitments fulfilled, we once again headed to the Gershwin Room, where we were joined by award-winning writer Nancy Kress to discuss writ...
Episode 130: Contemporary fantasy, lists and other things
06 Jan 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The quiet days after the New Year, when Coode Street scribes spend their days slowly summarising the moments of the year just gone and contemplating...
Episode 129: In which the year ends....
29 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week we headed up to the Gershwin Room to discuss the recently announced Locus All Time Poll results, writing for the end of the year and other s...
Episode 128: Live with Gene Wolfe
22 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're joined in the Gershwin Room by newly annointed SFWA Grand Master Gene Wolfe to discuss writing, his work, his new novel, and much more...
Episode 127: Live with Maureen McHugh
16 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week we return to the Gershwin Room to chat with Maureen McHugh, award-winning author of novels China Mountain Zang, Half the Day is Night, Missi...
Episode 126: In which rambling continues...
11 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
After a long delay due to technical issues with our hosting service, Podbean, we are now able to bring you the latest episode of The Coode Street Po...
Episode 125: Of lists and rambling
01 Dec 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In one of our most problem-free podcasts of recent times, Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan return to the Waldorf Room high atop the corporate tower tha...
Episode 124: Live with Graham Joyce
26 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
And now the podcast that technology did not want you to hear! When the Coode Street team traveled to Toronto, Canada for the 2012 World Fantasy Con...
Episode 123: Getting back in the groove
17 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
With jetlag slowly disappearing into the haze of memory, we once again ascended to the Waldorf Room high above the Coode St Motel 6 to discuss science...
Episode 122: And we're back!
10 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
And just like that, World Fantasy Convention is a thing of the past. Awards were won, podcasts lost, and good times had by all. This week, suffering...
Episode 121: A Quick One While We're Away
27 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Suffering a little from lack of sleep prior to heading off to Toronto for World Fantasy Convention, Gary and I headed up to the Waldorf Room and recor...
Episode 120: Live with James Bradley
21 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
With the days flying by as we race towards the official appearance of The Coode St Podcast team at the World Fantasy Convention in Toronto in two week...
Episode 119: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
14 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and I sit down with very little planned and just talk about us. We spent a little time discussing: Gary's Library of America seri...
Episode 118: Live with Kij Johnson!
06 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Not so long ago we were lucky enough to have the wonderful Kij Johnson, author of the new story collection At the Mouth of the River of Bees, join us...
Episode 117: Live with Kathleen Ann Goonan
23 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week we were joined in the Waldorf Room by Campell Award winning author Kathleen Ann Goonan, where we discussed the future of science fiction, te...
Episode 116: Live with Paul Kincaid!
16 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
During Episode 115 of the Podcast we discussed Paul Kincaid's review essay, "The Widening Gyre" (originally published by the LA Review of Books). In t...
Episode 115: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
09 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
We are back after an unexpected break over the WorldCon weekend. We intended to have a podcast for you, and to record many, many exciting interviews. ...
Episode 114: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
25 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and I have a quick sixty-six minute chat about Fourth Generation SF, some of my anthologies, WorldCon, the SF Awards Database, and so o...
Episode 113: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, James Patrick Kelly, and John Kessel!
19 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week award-winning authors and celebrated anthologists James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel join Gary and I to discuss their upcoming anthology Di...
Episode 112: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Genevieve Valentine!
11 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
And this week the wonderful Genevieve Valentine joins us in the Waldorf Room to discuss Readercon and harrassment at conventions, steampunk, dystopias...
Episode 111: Live with Gary K. Wolfe
05 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Once again Gary and Jonathan ascend to the Waldorf Room high above the Coode St Motel Six, to find there's not all that much happening in SF right now...
Episode 110: Live with Gary K. Wolfe
29 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
After a final July hiatus we're back! This weekend Gary and I headed to the Waldorf Room to discuss thoughts on Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312 and SF set...
Episode 109: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Caitlin R. Kiernan & Peter Straub!!
14 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
After a short break, we're back! Gary travelled to Massachusetts to attend Readercon 23 and managed to persuade convention guests of honor Caitlin R. ...
Episode 108: Live with Gary K. Wolfe & Amelia Beamer!!
01 Jul 2012
Contributed by Lukas
At the risk of repeating ourselves, we invited new Perth resident and fabulous writer Amelia Beamer, our very first guest, to join us to chat about ta...
Episode 107: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Gavin Grant & Kelly Link!
24 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
After much re-scheduling, this weekend authors, editors, and Small Beer supremos Gavin Grant and Kelly Link join Gary and I in the Waldorf Room to d...
Episode 106: Live with Gary K. Wolfe & Kij Johnson!
16 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
With the Locus Awards weekend in full swing in Seattle, Kij Johnson joined Gary in the official Coode St Suite and Jonathan in his office at home via ...
Episode 105: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
12 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 105, in which Jonathan joins Gary in achieving ConventionFail by failing to record a single podcast at Continuum 8 (the Australian National ...
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05 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This is a small test to see if the mobile gear is working. Our apologies for tsking up your bandwidth with this hopefully tiny file, but with a little...
Episode 104: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
01 Jun 2012
Contributed by Lukas
And with the Waldorf Room closed, Gary and I retired to the wine bar high atop the Coode Street Motel 6 to chat about stuff. These notes might be more...
Episode 103: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
28 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Coode Street Productions Multinational World Domination Unit sent Gary to Madison, Wisconsin with the idea that, perhaps, we might do a Wiscon-rel...
Episode 102: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
20 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
With the sun slowly setting over the Coode Street Motel 6, Gary and I headed for the Waldorf Room to record episode 102 of the podcast. For the first ...
Episode 101: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
12 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
From high atop the Coode Street Motel Six, deep in the Waldorf Room, Gary and I fired up the podcasting equipment to bring you episode 101 where, fi...
Episode 100: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
05 May 2012
Contributed by Lukas
It's our 100th episode and our 2nd Anniversary! Bereft of even so much as a good champagne-cork-popping sound effect we discuss the podcast, the recen...
Episode 99: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
28 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
On the cusp of our 100th episode Gary and I fire up Skype to talk about year's bests, awards, genre and other stuff. As always, we hope you enjoy the ...
Episode 98: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Nnedi Okorafor!
22 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
After taking time off last week, Gary and I are back with Nnedi Okorafor, award winning author of Who Fears Death, Akata Witch and many other wonder...
Episode 97: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Liza Groen Trombi!
08 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Chicon 7, the 70th Annual World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the nominees for the 2012 Hugo Awards (see list here). This morning, just ho...
Episode 96: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
04 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
With Gary now safely home from Florida and all of that ICFA craziness, we sat down to discuss recent events. Most prominent on our minds was Christoph...
Episode 95: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Ellen Klages, Karen Lord and Nalo Hopkinson!
30 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of two podcasts recorded at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Gary and I are joined by Ellen Klages, Karen Lord...
Episode 94: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Andy Duncan and Karen Joy Fowler!
24 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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, s...
Episode 93: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Peter Straub!
17 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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)...
Episode 92: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Michael Dirda!
11 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Episode 91: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
03 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda recently reviewed Keith Roberts' magestic novel, Pavane, in The Washington Post, describing it as a fix-up novel, ...
Episode 90: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
26 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 N...
Episode 89: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Barry Malzberg!
18 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 88: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ellen Kushner!
11 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week we invited award-winning actor, broadcaster, editor and writer Ellen Kushner to join us to discuss the excellent audiobook adaptation of her...
Episode 87: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
04 Feb 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This weekend Gary and I discussed the Locus Recommended Reading list (very briefly), Gwenda Bond's wonderful news, Saladin Ahmed's new novel, subgenre...
Episode 86: Live with Gary K. Wolfe! (and Sophie!)
29 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and I start off discussing aspects of compiling 'best of the year' anthology, touch on genre drift and blur, move on to a few recent st...
Episode 85: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Cheryl Morgan
21 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're delighted to welcome Cheryl Morgan back to the podcast after too long an absence to discuss the Hugo Awards, graphic stories, semiproz...
Episode 84: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Elizabeth Hand!
15 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
This week Elizabeth Hand joins us to discuss her two new novels, Available Dark and Radiant Days, as well as much more. As always, we hope you enjoy t...
Episode 83: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
07 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
For the first regular podcast of 2012 Gary and I answer listener "Cam from Canada's" questions about Gene Wolfe (or try to), foreshadow some stuff for...
Episode 82: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
31 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
With New Year's Eve beckoning, but just out of reach, Gary and I fired up the pod one last time for 2011 to discuss Rusty Hevelin, the memory of the ...
Episode 81: The Second Annual Boxing Day Super Mega Podcast
27 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
As we observed last year, the day after Christmas is a special one, dedicated to winding down after a day of feasting and gift giving, laughter and ...
Episode 80: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
18 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and I discuss, among a handful of select boutique subjects influence, copyright, and the current discussion over the World Fantasy Awar...
Episode 80: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
18 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and I discuss, among a handful of select boutique subjects influence, copyright, and the current discussion over the World Fantasy Awar...
Episode 79: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Paul Cornell!
11 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
With the holiday season upon us, Gary and I invited novelist, comics and TV writer (notably for Doctor Who and Action Comics) and long time podcast li...
Episode 78: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
04 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
With many thanks to young Sophie for joining us last week, Gary and I fired up our microphones and chatted about a veritable miscellany of SFnal stuff...
Episode 77: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Sophie Strahan!
26 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and I decided to vary things a little, inviting my ten-year-old daughter Sophie to join us to discuss a younger reader's view on story,...
Episode 76: Live with Gary K. Wolfe
19 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Things are still a little wobbly because jetlag and such, but Gary and I fired up Skype this morning and spent some time talking about the ways inform...
Episode 75: Live with Gary K. Wolfe
14 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Having spent the past three weeks traveling (where his microphone disappeared in-transit), a heavily jetlagged Jonathan contacted Gary in Chicago to d...
Episode 74: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Kim Stanley Robinson
05 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent World Science Fiction Convention held in Reno, Nevada we sat down with Kim Stanley Robinson to discuss his new novel 2312.
Episode 73: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Alastair Reynolds
29 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent World Science Fiction Convention held in Reno, Nevada we sat down with Alastair Reynolds to discuss his new novel Blue Remembered Earth ...
Episode 72: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ian McDonald
22 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
At the recent World Science Fiction Convention held in Reno, Nevada we sat down with Ian McDonald to discuss his new novel, Planesrunner.
Episode 71: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin!
18 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week saw the publication of Margaret Atwood's new book of essays, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, which discusses her thoughts on ...
Episode 70: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
09 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
After a lot of discussion about buzz and best of the year matters, Gary and I wrench our attention away from such matters and move on to discuss the o...
Episode 69: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
01 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
As a continuation of our discussion on finding the best books of the year and understanding how buzz is generated, this week Gary and I turned to our ...
Episode 68: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ian Mond!!
25 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary and I invited Ian Mond from The Writer and the Critic to join us to discuss recommending books and how buzz is generated around new o...
Episode 67: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
17 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
It doesn't feel like it, but the end of the science fiction year is not too far away, so Gary and I thought, in response to Ian Mond's of Writer and t...
Episode 66: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
11 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
After a sojourn due to Father's Day, when we ran the very well received Jo Walton episode, Gary and I are are back on deck to discuss young adult scie...
Episode 65: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Jo Walton
02 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Gary and I travelled to Reno, Nevada to attend Renovation, the World Science Fiction Convention for 2011. Over the weekend we recorded a handful of ...
Episode 64: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
27 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend Gary and I were in the slightly surreal space station environment of the Atlantis Casino in Reno, Nevada for the World Science Fiction Co...
Episode 63: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
12 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
It looked, for a moment, that technical difficulties would prevent us getting this final pre-WorldCon podcast out to you, but we persevered, recording...
Episode 62: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
06 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
With WorldCon bearing down on us like a freight train, there is packing to be done, panel preparation to be considered, and travel details to be final...
Episode 61: Republish
30 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
We've experienced some difficulties with episode 61, so we're republishing it. Our apologies for the problem.
Episode 60: Live with John Clute and Gary K. Wolfe!
21 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In 1975 Peter Nichols, John Clute and Brian Stableford launched a project that would ultimately last for more than thirty six years, exceed four milli...
Episode 59: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
09 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
As the weather in Perth turns cooler, and presumably as Spring prepares to give way to Summer in Chicago, Gary Wolfe and I once again take the chance ...
Episode 58: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
02 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
After a long week, and a flight home from Seattle for Gary we were back in the pod this morning where we discussed what people feel awards are for and...
Episode 57: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Terry Bisson, and Greg Bear
26 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Roving reporter Gary K. Wolfe checked in live from Seattle, where he and many of SF's glitterati are gathered for the annual Locus Awards and the SF H...
Episode 56: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Ellen Datlow and Peter Straub
18 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This week Gary's on the road again, traveling to the East Coast to attend the HWA's Stoker Awards weekend. He persuaded Ellen Datlow and Peter Straub ...
Episode 55: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!
11 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
With Gary home from his ICFA board meeting in Florida and Wiscon, we sat down to discuss cyberpunk, the 'movement and radical hard SF, Steampunk!, fir...
Episode 54: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Geoff Ryman!
03 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend Gary traveled to Madison, Wisconsin - home of Wiscon - where in amongst fine dinners and even finer conversation he managed to find time ...
Episode 53: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Karen Lord!
26 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend Crawford Award-winning novelist Karen Lord joined Gary and I live from an undisclosed location in the Caribbean (well, when we say 'undis...