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Episode 578: Kind of dull, but it’s something
May 01, 2022 04:35This week’s discussion begins with Gary wondering about what he tentatively calls the use of absurdism in some recent novels, mentioning Kelly Barnhill’s When Women Were Dragons and Sunyi Dean’s forthcoming The Book Eaters, each of which features a powerful central metaphor that refuses to resolve itself into traditional SF or fantasy systems—somewhat like the old Theatre of … Continue reading Episode 578: Kind of dull, but it’s something →
The Book of Witches
May 01, 2022 00:14A quick update. I am running behind on The Book of Witches. I hope to have the acceptances for the open-reading period done in the next week, and then will get back to everyone. I have some wonderful stories come in, both from the open reading period and from authors who I have solicited work … Continue reading The Book of Witches →
May and on anon…
April 30, 2022 23:44It’s the first day of a new month and I’m going to try to use that as a kick-off for a bit of a fresh start. I need to exercise, organise, and work more if 2022 is going to work out. I also need to read more, watch less, and just do things. Today is … Continue reading May and on anon… →
Episode 577: Books, classics, and collecting
April 15, 2022 11:03It’s only been a week since Jonathan and Gary sat down to chat with Nicola Griffith about her new book, Spear, but in a bid to get back on schedule, they took a moment to record a new episode for the coming long weekend. They kick off chatting about travel during the pandemic and the … Continue reading Episode 577: Books, classics, and collecting →
Episode 576: Nicola Griffith and Spear
April 03, 2022 05:19This time out, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the brilliant Nicola Griffith, whose Spear, out this month, revisits Arthurian tales from an entirely new perspective. We chat about how the novel came about, Arthurian literature as fan fiction, the wonderful illustrations by Rovina Cai, and what it was like to record the audiobook. We … Continue reading Episode 576: Nicola Griffith and Spear →
Episode 575: New books, old readers, and such
March 27, 2022 05:24With Gary just back from ICFA in Florida, he discussed whether this will really be the year of re-emergence, with both the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago and World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans in the offing. This led, as it does, to discussion of the Hugos, whether small categories with few nominations should … Continue reading Episode 575: New books, old readers, and such →
Open submission period for The Book of Witches – Closed
March 18, 2022 15:03This is just to confirm that the open submission period for The Book of Witches closed at 5.00 pm today, Western Australian time. Thank you to everyone who submitted. Unfortunately, any submissions arriving after 5.00 pm cannot be considered.
Episode 574: Kickstarters, communities, and more
March 06, 2022 09:43After reminding listeners that the deadline for Hugo nominations is fast approaching on March 15 (and reminding them once again of the eligibility of this podcast for Best Fancast and of Jonathan for Best Editor, Short Form), we move on to the much-discussed, record-setting Brandon Sanderson Kickstarter, and the question of whether it really matters … Continue reading Episode 574: Kickstarters, communities, and more →
Episode 573: The 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List
February 20, 2022 06:06This week, in our more-or-less annual discussion of the Locus Recommended Reading List, we are delighted to be joined by Locus Editor-in-Chief Liza Groen Trombi. We talk about the purpose of the list, how it has changed over the years, how books or stories get on the list, and a few thorny questions about how … Continue reading Episode 573: The 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List →
Episode 572: Genre, change, and the passage of time
February 13, 2022 07:15This week (episode 3 of season 13) we return to our tradition of almost entirely unstructured rambling. Jonathan and Gary consider such questions as to whether a novel can be good SF, but not much good in literary terms, or a good literary novel not much good as SF. While we recognize that many popular … Continue reading Episode 572: Genre, change, and the passage of time →
Someone in Time: Tales of Timecrossed Romance – Cover and table of contents
January 28, 2022 03:41This coming May the incredible team at Rebellion Publishing will release my next book, Someone in Time: Tales of Timecrossed Romance. It’s a collection of stories about love and romance through time, inspired by some of my favourite stories. The table of contents is below. You can pre-order the paperback here and the ebook here. … Continue reading Someone in Time: Tales of Timecrossed Romance – Cover and table of contents →
Episode 571: The New Year and New Books
January 24, 2022 01:43This week Jonathan and Gary are back, a little early, to talk about the annual science fiction calendar, the awards season, how there are so many awards, what books they’re reading, and what books they’ve worked on. Oh, and for a short moment, they touch on movies and TV too. All in all, episode two … Continue reading Episode 571: The New Year and New Books →
Episode 570: Coode Street’s Books to Look for in 2022
January 15, 2022 06:46Welcome to The Coode Street Podcast. With 2021 barely in the rearview mirror, it’s time to kick off season 13 with a brand new episode. A little over a month ago we sat down with James Bradley, Alix E. Harrow, and Ian Mond to discuss 2021: The Year in Review in Episode 568. At the … Continue reading Episode 570: Coode Street’s Books to Look for in 2022 →
Open submission period for BIPOC* writers for The Book of Witches
January 12, 2022 03:11Following on from the award-winning success of The Book of Dragons, Harper Voyager will publish an exciting new anthology, The Book of Witches, edited by Jonathan Strahan in the Fall of 2023. Like The Book of Dragons, The Book of Witches will be a big, inclusive, illustrated anthology of fiction and poetry, this time looking at “witches” (more specifically … Continue reading Open submission period for BIPOC* writers for The Book of Witches →
Awards Eligibility – 2021
December 27, 2021 02:502021 was a year. COVID played hell with production and publication, and things that might have succeeded didn’t. That impacted books of mine, like 2020s Made to Order, and it means books that I had hoped would come out in 2021 did not. Still, it was a busy year and with the end of the … Continue reading Awards Eligibility – 2021 →
Episode 569: A Thank You for Supporting Us for So Long
December 24, 2021 05:45The Coode Street Podcast kicked off in May 2010. Over the next 568 episodes Jonathan and Gary, and far too many friends of the podcast to be named here individually, talked about a shared love of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in all of their many forms. Just a week ago, the members of the … Continue reading Episode 569: A Thank You for Supporting Us for So Long →
Episode 568: A Very Coode Street Gift Guide Roundtable
December 05, 2021 06:47The holiday season is upon us, another strange, unforgettable year is almost done, and here at Coode Street it’s time for our annual gift guide/year in review, where we recommend some books we loved during the year. This time out we invited special guests and good friends James Bradley, Alix E. Harrow, and Ian Mond … Continue reading Episode 568: A Very Coode Street Gift Guide Roundtable →
Episode 567: Sheree Renée Thomas and science fiction
December 05, 2021 06:46Welcome to episode 25 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary sit down with the very talented and extremely busy Sheree Renée Thomas to discuss her award-winning collection Nine Bar Blues, her first year editing the venerable Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, the lasting impact of her Dark … Continue reading Episode 567: Sheree Renée Thomas and science fiction →
Episode 566: On life achievement, awards, and more
December 05, 2021 06:45Welcome to episode 24 of Season 12 of the Coode Street Podcast. As the year draws to a close and winter comes to Chicago and summer to Perth, Gary and Jonathan sit down for an unexpected and unplanned conversation about life achievement awards and their meaningfulness, a brief foreshadowing of a discussion about interrogating the … Continue reading Episode 566: On life achievement, awards, and more →
Episode 565: On work published after the author‘s death
October 24, 2021 02:35Welcome to episode 23 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week, after a brief and mostly irrelevant discussion of whether the proposition that Ray Bradbury as the quintessential October writer means anything at all outside North America, Jonathan and Gary actually try to focus on an important question: whether posthumous publications actually … Continue reading Episode 565: On work published after the author‘s death →
Episode 564: Oghenechovwe Ekpeki and African Speculative Fiction
October 09, 2021 22:47Welcome to episode 22 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. In this episode, Gary and Jonathan talk to Oghenechovwe Ekpeki, author of the Otherwise Award-winning and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, British SF Award, and Nebula Award-nominated novella “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon”, editor of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, and co-editor with … Continue reading Episode 564: Oghenechovwe Ekpeki and African Speculative Fiction →
Episode 563: A Ramble in the Wilderness
September 19, 2021 05:57Welcome to episode 21 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast.Once again, it’s just Jonathan and Gary, talking about the various roles anthologies have played in the history of science fiction and how that role may be different these days, the nominees and winners of the 2021 Ignyte Awards from FIYAHCON 2021, N.K. Jemisin … Continue reading Episode 563: A Ramble in the Wilderness →
Episode 562: Reading, reviewing, and an old question answered
August 29, 2021 05:07Welcome to episode 20 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. It’s just Jonathan and Gary again, eventually circling around an interesting question raised by Andrew Liptak in Transfer Orbit concerning the question of reading the right book at the right time, rather than being chained to the constant parade of new books and … Continue reading Episode 562: Reading, reviewing, and an old question answered →
Episode 561: Science fiction, influence, and more
August 22, 2021 03:53Welcome to episode 19 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary return, sans guests or much of a plan. They do manage to touch upon a number of significant issues, such as the work of newly minted World Fantasy Life Achievement winner Howard Waldrop, whether Waldrop could be … Continue reading Episode 561: Science fiction, influence, and more →
Saturday morning, back at home, still in the endless pandemic
August 13, 2021 23:29No reading this week at all, which is not great. Sleeping is very poor, which is also not great. Spent a few nights in a hotel so we could get through painting parts of the house, which was, no fault of the hotel, not great. Today, new carpet in one room and some cleaning and … Continue reading Saturday morning, back at home, still in the endless pandemic →
Thursday after, during the current pandemic…
August 12, 2021 08:36What a discombobulated day today has been. This is the fourth day of painting, the second day staying in a hotel, and the second day off work. All is in chaos, though that overstates it. The painting looks great, but smells less great. The mess is all-pervasive because there’s painting done here and there, and … Continue reading Thursday after, during the current pandemic… →
Change and chassis, early Wednesday, same Pandemic
August 10, 2021 22:53Well, it’s a week of upset and change here. We’ve basically neglected most basic change and maintenance at home since we moved in, way back in 2002, and it’s past time for that to end. So this week we have a painter in the house – just a bedroom, the bathroom, and some ceilings. The … Continue reading Change and chassis, early Wednesday, same Pandemic →
Early Monday morning, same pandemic
August 08, 2021 21:53Well, it doesn’t look like blogging every day is a thing, though I am planning to keep to it. Another night’s poor sleep, after what was a pretty good weekend. Didn’t do much reading, but did pitch a new book, have wine and chat at Keira’s (which was a highlight of the weekend), see friends … Continue reading Early Monday morning, same pandemic →
Episode 560: Arkady Martine and Memories of Empire
August 08, 2021 03:47Welcome to episode 18 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the wonderful Arkady Martine, author of the Hugo-winning A Memory Called Empire and its equally remarkable sequel A Desolation Called Peace. We touch upon how her research as an academic historian helped shape her … Continue reading Episode 560: Arkady Martine and Memories of Empire →
Underslept, early on a Thursday (not much later in), the same pandemic
August 04, 2021 21:52I hurt my left foot a while ago. I thought it had healed up just find, but the last day or two – not great. And then sleeping. Sleeping these days is weird too. Had a terrible night’s sleep the night before last and a below par, though better, one last night. Hopefully heading in … Continue reading Underslept, early on a Thursday (not much later in), the same pandemic →
Reading again, early August…
August 03, 2021 23:47Just a quick note. Should the question arise, I’m currently reading Tade Thompson’s fifth novel, Far from the Light of Heaven, his first book-length work since completing the Wormwood trilogy. The publisher describes the book like this: A tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from a rising giant … Continue reading Reading again, early August… →
Mad hours, Wednesday, later in the P—
August 03, 2021 21:39So sometimes I wake up at 1.30am or so, and sometimes I cannot get back to sleep. Today is the morning after one of those nights. I’m guessing I got about four hours sleep, which is enough to be barely functional. No super reason for it, but it’s gonna be a long-ish day. I’ll add, … Continue reading Mad hours, Wednesday, later in the P— →
Time slipping away, on a Tuesday, round about the same time in the pandemic
August 03, 2021 12:33I’m seeing if I can work up a functional review of The Hood. Not written one of those since I stopped reviewing for Locus back in 2002 or so. I used to kid myself that I’d go back to it, but other things overran that. Today was all about the day job, some project work, … Continue reading Time slipping away, on a Tuesday, round about the same time in the pandemic →
The next day, early in morning, exiting a polder, same pandemic
August 02, 2021 21:30Just wrote this elsewhere on social media: This is a strange time. Here in Perth, even for winter, it’s cold and wet. The east coast of Australian is locked down and Delta rages. I find myself rather nervously watching that and wondering when/if it will impact here. People are watching Olympics and making/plans and we’re … Continue reading The next day, early in morning, exiting a polder, same pandemic →
Very early morning Monday, not sleeping, same pandemic
August 01, 2021 21:34The cat is outside and I’ve had my mandated minimum five hours sleep, which seems what this second COVID year is allowing me right now. I hope to get back to something a bit more usual for me, but who knows? I’m awake, there’s a day job to go to, and that’s about that. Although … Continue reading Very early morning Monday, not sleeping, same pandemic →
Sunday evening, just before dinner, a few hours later in the same pandemic
August 01, 2021 10:15Today has not been the productive day I’d hoped, but it wasn’t a total loss. Having been a bit under the weather, I rescheduled social commitments, and then recorded a new episode of the podcast. It talks a little about the Lavie Tidhar novel we’re both reading, about the forthcoming talk with Arkady Martine we … Continue reading Sunday evening, just before dinner, a few hours later in the same pandemic →
Episode 559: Partway through the pandemic, a ramble
August 01, 2021 02:38Welcome to episode 17 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. For those very few of you who might be wondering what Jonathan and Gary ramble on about when they’re not recording or talking to guests, here’s a taste—especially if you make it all the way to the last ten minutes or so, when … Continue reading Episode 559: Partway through the pandemic, a ramble →
Too early on Sunday, a little later in the same pandemic
July 31, 2021 22:20To bed late after a whisky too many and now a healthy distance into The Hood. The goombahs have made an appearance. I’ll see what happens next. It’s a rainy morning here, too, very windy. Due to do some social stuff but might hang home. Podcasting is possible. A painter is coming to discuss painting … Continue reading Too early on Sunday, a little later in the same pandemic →
Later that same night (same pandemic), a stroll into the woods…
July 31, 2021 12:45Progressing into The Hood… The story has kicked in. The Hood is a re-wilding, a bringing back of the pagan and the profane to The Matter of Britain. Full of life and blood and sex and death.https://t.co/ynhBRxlmqs — JonathanStrahan (Now fully vaccinated) (@JonathanStrahan) July 31, 2021
That same Saturday, same pandemic, after a visit to Bunnings…
July 31, 2021 02:33My Meniere’s disease is acting up. The hearing in my left ear is particularly poor right now and I have pressure in both ears (which I’ve not had for a while). Not sure if it’s a COVID thing, a lack of sleep thing, or something else. Anyhow, it’s leaving me just wanting to stare out … Continue reading That same Saturday, same pandemic, after a visit to Bunnings… →
Saturday morning, just a little later in the same pandemic
July 30, 2021 23:22These entries are all, so far, just notes to me really. I don’t think I’ve left on any syndication, but the point is to get me a little more focussed on work and stuff, and hopefully this will nudge me. Anyway, another Saturday morning. A first cup of coffee. Maybe a mild sore throat, possibly … Continue reading Saturday morning, just a little later in the same pandemic →
Later in the evening, Friday, sometime during the pandemic
July 30, 2021 12:50No reading yet. A long-ish feeling day at the day job, aware of other tasks to be settled. Home, tired and underslept, but took the family out for an okay pasta dinner in the nearby Swan Valley. Meniere’s played up mightily, but that’s probably self-inflicted. Made me think of heading for bed early, but instead… … Continue reading Later in the evening, Friday, sometime during the pandemic →
Early Friday morning, sometime during the pandemic
July 29, 2021 23:28It might seem odd to look back to blogging for a way to focus, but I’m going to try. I used to blog a lot, many years ago, but social media and so on really has broken that down for me. I spend too long on other platforms, and I find them less satisfying. Since … Continue reading Early Friday morning, sometime during the pandemic →
Episode 558: M. Rickert and The Shipbuilder of Bellfaerie
July 25, 2021 02:50Welcome to episode 16 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week, Jonathan and Gary chat with the marvellous M. Rickert, whose new novel The Shipbuilder of Bellfaerie is out next week from Undertow Publications. We touch upon how the novel draws from traditions as varied as nautical legends, mysteries, and even Frankenstein, … Continue reading Episode 558: M. Rickert and The Shipbuilder of Bellfaerie →
Episode 557: All This and Dystopia Too
July 18, 2021 04:58Welcome to episode 15 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. For the first time in more than two months, it’s just Jonathan and Gary again, talking about science fiction of the anthropocene, whether science fiction has shifted its “consensus future” away from the optimism of past eras, the notion that forms such as … Continue reading Episode 557: All This and Dystopia Too →
Episode 557: All This and Dystopia Too
July 18, 2021 04:58Welcome to episode 15 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. For the first time in more than two months, it’s just Jonathan and Gary again, talking about science fiction of the anthropocene, whether science fiction has shifted its “consensus future” away from the optimism of past eras, the notion that forms such as … Continue reading Episode 557: All This and Dystopia Too →
Episode 556: Lavie Tidhar and a World of Science Fiction
July 02, 2021 14:05Welcome to episode 14 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by multiple award-winning author and editor Lavie Tidhar to discuss his brand new anthology, The Best of World SF: Vol 1, his years working to bring SF from around the world to North American and UK … Continue reading Episode 556: Lavie Tidhar and a World of Science Fiction →
Episode 555: Catherynne M. Valente and Telling Tales
June 26, 2021 03:28Welcome to episode 13 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by the wonderful Catherynne M. Valente to talk about her new book The Past is Red, which continues the tale of Tetley Abednego, first introduced to readers in the Sturgeon Award-winning “The Future is Blue” from … Continue reading Episode 555: Catherynne M. Valente and Telling Tales →
Episode 555: Catherynne M. Valente and Telling Tales
June 26, 2021 03:27Welcome to episode 13 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by the wonderful Catherynne M. Valente to talk about her new book The Past is Red, which continues the tale of Tetley Abednego, first introduced to readers in the Sturgeon Award-winning “The Future is Blue” from … Continue reading Episode 555: Catherynne M. Valente and Telling Tales →
Episode 554: Zen Cho and Finding Black Water Sister
June 20, 2021 23:41Welcome to episode 12 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by the remarkable Zen Cho, whose new novel Black Water Sister will be followed later this summer by an expanded version of her Crawford Award-winning collection Spirits Abroad from Small Beer Press. We touch upon issues … Continue reading Episode 554: Zen Cho and Finding Black Water Sister →