Awards eligibility – 2024

2024 was a year when I edited one reprint anthology (no originals this year!, six Subterranean Press and Tordotcom novellas, thirteen short stories for Reactor and Subterranean, and acted as reviews editor for Locus for the 22nd consecutive year. As a podcaster, I co-hosted and produced a total of 28 episodes of The Coode Street Podcast.

Fiction edited in 2024

Anthologies

Novellas

Short fiction

  • “Goblins & Greatcoats”, Travis Baldree (Subterranean)
  • “The Angel’s Share”, Martin Cahill, Reactor, July 24, 2024
  • “Between Home and a House on Fire”, A. T. Greenblatt, Reactor, May 15, 2024
  • “I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad, AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe”, Daryl Gregory, “Reactor, November 20, 2024
  • “Evan: A Remainder”, Jordan Kurella, Reactor, January 31, 2024
  • “Set in Stone”, K.J. Parker, Reactor, September 4, 2024
  • “The Gulmohar of Mehranpur”, Amal Singh, Reactor, August 21, 2024
  • “Also, the Cat”, Rachel Swirsky, Reactor, January 10, 2024
  • “Unquiet at the Eastern Front”, Wole Talabi (Subterranean)
  • “Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal”, Lavie Tidhar, Reactor, April 17, 2024
  • “Immortal, Invisible”, Tade Thompson (Subterranean)
  • “Nine Billion Turing Tests”, Chris Willrich, Reactor, February 21, 2024
  • “I’ll Miss Myself”, John Wiswell, Reactor, July 10, 2024

Editor, Short-Form (Hugos)/Professional Achievement (WFA)

Best Fancast/Podcast

I hope you’ll consider supporting the talented people that I’ve worked with during the year.

Episode 665: Joe Monti and the State of Things

Long time friend of the podcast Joe Monti, who was recently promoted to Vice President, Associate Publisher, and Editorial Director at Saga Press, and is now officially a “Big Cheese’, stops by for a wide-ranging chat about the impact of the pandemic and other events on the affordability of books; trends in recent science fiction, fantasy and horror and why science fiction may be set for something of a comeback; the influence (or lack thereof) of awards on book sales; and touches on authors ranging from Cixin Liu and N.K. Jemisin to William Gibson and Ursula K. Le Guin.

As always, Joe’s broad experience as publisher, agent, and bookseller provides some unique insights as to what’s going on and we think makes for fascinating listening as we move towards the end of the year.

Episode 664: Julie Phillips and talking about Ursula K. Le Guin

dispossessd.jpeg

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic The Dispossessed, we sit down for a chat with award-winning biographer and writer Julie Phillips, author of James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon and The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Body Problem.

Julie is currently at work on the authorized biography of Le Guin, and her insights from her research and her many discussions with Le Guin—not only regarding The Dispossessed but all aspects of her career, and on the challenges of writing biography—were so compelling that we ran a few minutes over our usual hour. We think it’s well worth it, and wish we could have gone on even longer.

Episode 663: How science fiction responds

For our first October episode, we try out another new opening, touch upon the recent catastrophic weather in Florida and the hazards of attempting near future SF in a rapidly changing world, with Norman Spinrad’s Russian Spring as one example.

After a brief digression (what else?) on novels that extrapolate political decisions more than technological change—like the two novels that preceded the movie Dr. Strangelove, we touch upon the question of whether J.G. Ballard may catch the current zeitgeist in the same way Philp K. Dick did a generation ago.

Finally, a few more short digressions on whether awards like World Fantasy can significantly influence a book’s sales or reputation, on the value of “best of” anthologies, and on what makes a good gift book for the forthcoming holiday season.

Episode 662: Rambling to the end of the year

The Last Dangerous VisionsAs we gear up for the inevitable year-in-review discussions, and the annual semi-hiatus between the fall and spring convention sessions (at least in the Northern Hemisphere), we return to our familiar questions of canon and influence, noting that while some books seem to drop out of the discussion within months of being published, others,like Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, continue to generate responses despite controversy.

From that, we not-quite-seamlessly segue into a discussion of Harlan Ellison and J. Michael Straczynski’s The Last Dangerous Visions and the problems in presenting stories over 50 years old together with brand-new tales, finally chatting about what makes you want to recommend a book to a friend.

Along with way, we mention several interesting writers, including Emily Tesh, Wole Talabi, and Kate Heartfield.

…unavoidable stuff from jonathan strahan…