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Episode 87: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:54:28 +0000

This weekend Gary and I discussed the Locus Recommended Reading list (very briefly), Gwenda Bond’s wonderful news, Saladin Ahmed’s new novel, subgenre’s and answered a lot of reader questions from Twitter. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Episode 86: Live with Gary K. Wolfe! (and Sophie!)

Jonathan — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:23:34 +0000

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 stories we’ve greatly admired, and then invite Sophie back at the very end of the ‘cast for a quick chat about her recent reading. As always, we … Continue reading »

Episode 85: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Cheryl Morgan

Jonathan — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:49:06 +0000

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, semiprozines, fancasts and all sorts of interesting eligibility questions, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Awards. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast, and will see you … Continue reading »

Episode 84: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Elizabeth Hand

Jonathan — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:45:14 +0000

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 the podcast!

Episode 83: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:23:04 +0000

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 future episodes, briefly discuss Hugo nominations opening, chat about John Crowley’s work and some other stuff. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Episode 82: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:35:33 +0000

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 field, the year we had, and all sorts of other things.

On a serious note, we would like to deeply and sincerely thank everyone who appeared as a guest, commented on the blog, tweeted or blogged about the podcast, voted or nominated it for an award, said something nice about the podcast in passing in an elevator or at the bar – basically, everyone who has responded to it in any way. This first full year of podcasting has been a constant joy, surprise and delight and we’d like to thank all of the Coode St Community and wish you all a safe and happy celebration and the best year ever for 2012 (except for Mayans, who might be in for a bit of a torrid time).

Episode 81: The Second Annual Boxing Day Super Mega Podcast

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 02:34:50 +0000

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 merriment. Things slow down – unless you have a taste for the mega-discount sales – and people tend to relax with family.

This morning, Perth time, at least, a bunch of participants in Australian podcasting joined together to record The Second Annual Boxing Day Super Mega Podcast. Participating were:

Alex, Alisa, and Tansy from Galactic Suburbia;
Ian and Kirstyn from The Writer and the Critic; and
Gary and I from The Coode St Podcast.

Sadly, Grant from Bad Film Diaries couldn’t make.

What we ended up with was seven seven people talking, in a fairly organised manner about their highlights of 2011 and what they’re looking forward to in 2012. Because I was doing the engineering for this there was a stuff up and the first 20 minutes of the podcast were lost forever. Alex and I did a quick do-over and new intro which we think works pretty well. Either way, we all hope you enjoy it, and that you check out our individual podcasts which will be coming out in coming weeks and months.

PS: While this is not an episode of The Coode St Podcast proper, it counts as episode 81 as far as we’re concerned :)

Episode 80: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 07:04:42 +0000

This week Gary and I discuss, among a handful of select boutique subjects influence, copyright, and the current discussion over the World Fantasy Awards. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast. See you next week!

Episode 79: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Paul Cornell!

Jonathan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:26:46 +0000

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 listener Paul Cornell to join us on the podcast to discuss all sorts of interesting things in what proved to be a very enjoyable conversation. As always, we hope … Continue reading »

Episode 78: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 09:24:55 +0000

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, including audiobooks, recommended reading, and such. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast. If all goes to plan, we’ll be back next week with Paul Cornell. NB: … Continue reading »

Episode 77: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Sophie Strahan!

Jonathan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:06:15 +0000

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, character and such. It makes for a very different Coode Street podcast, but we hope you’ll enjoy it, as always. Normal programming will resume next week!

Episode 76: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:52:36 +0000

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 information gets used online, the SF Encyclopedia, when it’s a good time to do a “Best of” collection and I spent a little time raving about Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Note: If you have subscribed to The Coode Street Podcast via iTunes we’d like to encourage you to swap from our old link to the new official Podbean-hosted The Coode Street Podcast link. I’ve been cross-posting over the past few months, but plan to discontinue that and only post to the Podbean link in the next few weeks.

Episode 75: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:07:16 +0000

Having spent the past three weeks traveling (where his microphone disappeared in-transit), a heavily jetlagged Jonathan contacted Gary in Chicago to discuss the San Diego World Fantasy Convention, traveling, Amazon.com, and a number of other things. Our apologies if Jonathan’s heavily jetlagged state led to a more garbled than usual discussion. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast, and will see you next week!

Note: If you have subscribed to The Coode Street Podcast via iTunes we’d like to encourage you to swap from our old link to the new official Podbean-hosted The Coode Street Podcast link. I’ve been cross-posting over the past few months, but plan to discontinue that and only post to the Podbean link in the next few weeks.

Episode 74: Redux

Jonathan — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:56:02 +0000

Publishing podcasts from the iPad seems to be too much of a challenge, and I seem to have misposted the ep. with Stan Robinson. With apologies for possible duplication, here it is in a clean re-post. I’d also recommend re-subscribing via Podbean which would fix the problem.

Episode 74: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Kim Stanley Robinson

Jonathan — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:59:36 +0000

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

Jonathan — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:54:16 +0000

At the recent WorldCon in Reno, Gary and I sat down to chat with Alastair Reynolds about, among other things, his new novel, Blue Remembered Earth.

Episode 72: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ian McDonald

Jonathan — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:06:58 +0000

At the recent WorldCon held in Reno, Gary and I sat down with Ian McDonald to discuss his new novel, Planesrunner, and a lot more.

Note: Apologies for taking so long to get this cross posted here.

Episode 71: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin!

Jonathan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:51:33 +0000

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 science fiction in some detail. We invited Ursula K. Le Guin to join us on the podcast to discuss Atwood, science fiction and her new book. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

Note: As mentioned at the end of the podcast, this will be the last newly recorded episode until mid-November. The next three episodes will be interviews with Alastair Reynolds, Ian McDonald, and Kim Stanley Robinson recorded in Reno at WorldCon.

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Episode 70: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 09:53:08 +0000

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 one true mission of science fiction, the matter of small presses in SF (a little), and the new new new new new space opera. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Episode 69: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:42:16 +0000

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 reader’s comments (both here and over at my blog) about buzz; the New Wave and women in SF, and much more. We also repeat our call for reader’s to tell us about their best books of the year, which we hope to continue to discuss in coming months. Listener Tansy Rayner Roberts has posted her terrific ‘Best of the Year so far‘ list, and we’d like to see yours!

Episode 68: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ian Mond!!

Jonathan — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:32:28 +0000

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 or upcoming books each year. We discuss the very welcome feedback we received on the subject before we began to ramble in earnest, going on to discuss currently overlooked writers like Thomas M. Disch, Michael Bishop and Zenna Henderson, sport in science fiction and fantasy, the delicate balance between literature and science in hard SF, and many other things. Gary and I would like to thank Ian for joining us, and I’d like to make it clear, personally, that I was only joking about Alisa and the knitting needles. Really :)

Some useful links following on from the podcast: Subterranean are publishing a best of Michael Bishop, and NESFA publish the collected ‘People’ stories by Zenna Henderson.

Episode 67: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 09:58:23 +0000

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 the Critic, that we’d discuss possible award-likely texts, how books get buzz, and much more. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

Episode 66: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:09:36 +0000

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 science fiction, Ian McDonald, his new novel Planesrunner, Daryl Gregory and his new collection, robots and computerised houses, and a bit of waffle on the subject of Orson Scott Card and “Hamlet’s Father”. As always we hope you enjoy the podcast. See you next week!

Episode 65: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Jo Walton!

Jonathan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:44:02 +0000

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 podcasts with friends, old and new, that we see to seldom. We’ll be publishing these over the coming month. The first in the series is with Jo Walton, author of Among Others and Farthing, where we discussed that novel, science fiction, her Hugo blogging and many other things. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

Episode 64: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:16:27 +0000

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 Convention, where we recorded upcoming podcasts with Ian McDonald, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Jo Walton. This weekend we’re home and discuss the con (briefly), vow to avoid discussing awards too much, look at the work of Caitlin R. Kiernan and discuss the use of language in SF. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

Episode 63: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:42:24 +0000

It looked, for a moment, that technical difficulties would prevent us getting this final pre-WorldCon podcast out to you, but we persevered, recording this one twice. We discussed many things, including changing concepts of the field, books that we’re reading and so on. We’ll be at WorldCon and look forward to meeting as many of you there as possible. We’ll also be recording, and hope to get something online from there (though it’s possible we might not). Hopefully we’ll see you here next week. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

Episode 62: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:34:34 +0000

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 finalised. Despite all of that, Gary and I found a moment to record the latest episode. As always, we hope you enjoy it!

Episode 61: Republish

Jonathan — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:33:33 +0000

We’ve had some unexpected problems with episode 61, and are republishing. Our apologies for the problem.

Episode 60: Live with John Clute and Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:40:11 +0000

In 1975 Peter Nichols, John Clute and Brian Stableford launched a project that would ultimately last for more than thirty six years, exceed four million words of careful scholarship, occupy at least three publishers, win many awards, and be recognised as the most important reference work in the science fiction: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia.

This week encyclopedist, writer, editor, and critic John Clute joined Gary and I to discuss the coming September launch of the third edition of the SFE, the history of the project, and the exciting SF Gateway project which is being launched by Gollancz at around the same time.

We’d like to thank John for joining us and, as always, hope you enjoy the podcast!

Episode 59: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:04:50 +0000

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 to ramble on all subjects SFnal. This morning Gary was just home from a local convention and we discussed Marion Zimmer Bradley, art vs. craft, Robert Silverberg, and gender in genre. A pretty typical day on Coode St. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

Episode 58: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 03:50:43 +0000

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 how we react to them, how the year in science fiction and fantasy is going so far, Osama by Lavie Tidhar, and The Essential Lucy Sussex. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Episode 57: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Terry Bisson, and Greg Bear

Jonathan — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:46:30 +0000

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 Hall of Fame, to discuss the Hall of Fame, the death of the paperback market and how it affected the SF field, first novelists and new writers, and a little more. We were joined by Greg Bear (who sadly had to leave half way through) and Terry Bisson. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.

Episode 56: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Ellen Datlow and Peter Straub

Jonathan — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:01:21 +0000

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 to join us on the podcast to discuss horror, genre boundaries and related topics.

Episode 55: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:34:16 +0000

With Gary home from his ICFA board meeting in Florida and Wiscon, we sat down to discuss cyberpunk, the ‘movement and radical hard SF, Gavin Grant & Kelly Link’s Steampunk!, first novels and a few other things. No awards were mentioned in the recording of this podcast.

Episode 54: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Geoff Ryman!

Jonathan — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:59:09 +0000

Last weekend Gary traveled to Madison, Wisconsin – home of Wiscon – where in amongst fine dinners and even finer conversation he managed to find time to ask Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages and Geoff Ryman to join us on the podcast to discuss the 20th anniversary of the Tiptree Awards, Wiscon, the value of short fiction, and other things. Many, many thanks to Eileen, Ellen and Geoff for joining us. We hope you enjoy it, as always, and will see you next week!

Episode 53: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Karen Lord!

Jonathan — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:34:48 +0000

Last weekend Crawford Award-winning novelist Karen Lord joined Gary and I live from an undisclosed location in the Caribbean (well, when we say ‘undisclosed’ a LOT of frogs and just a few motorcycles seemed to know just where Karen was at the time) to discuss the impact of cultural perceptions on fantasy, her novel Redemption in Indigo, and a handful of other things. We experienced a few recording dropouts (for which we apologise), but Skype struggled to link Perth, Chicago and the Caribbean and did its very best. We hope you enjoy the podcast as much as we enjoyed recording it.
As to this coming weekend, well Gary’s at Wiscon so we have some plans for coming weeks that we think should be a lot of fun. See you then!

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Episode 52: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Liza Groen Trombi!

Jonathan — Sun, 22 May 2011 03:29:09 +0000

This morning (Perth time) the Science Fiction Writers of America gathered in Washington DC to present the Nebula Awards. The ceremony was videocast (see it here) and the winners were announced to festive celebration (results are here).

In the immediate aftermath Gary and I asked Locus editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi to join us in the pod to discuss the Nebulas, the winners, what happened to the Grand Master award, and other fun stuff. We hope you enjoy it, as always!

I should also report that this was one of two podcasts we recorded this weekend. In the other one, likely published next weekend, we chatted with the wonderful Karen Lord about all sorts of interesting stuff. See you then!

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Episode 51: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 14 May 2011 04:57:13 +0000

With birthday celebrations now receding into the past (no baked goods were harmed in the recording of this podcast), Gary and I turn our attention once more to matters at hand. The Locus Awards nominees have been announced, so we discuss the usefulness of awards, how 2010 looks in retrospect, and how 2011 looks from here (with specific mention of China Mieville’s Embassytown, Greg Egan’s Clockwork Rocket, Michael Swanwick’s Dancing with Bears, Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch, and Jo Walton’s Among Others), and I set Gary a reviewing challenge. We hope you enjoy it, as always!

PS: Yes, we know it’s ridiculously long! Sorry. We’ll do better next time. Probably. No. Really. Well, possibly.

Episode 50: Live with Gary K. Wolfe! Birthday!

Jonathan — Sat, 07 May 2011 04:11:09 +0000

It’s our birthday!! This is the real, official birthday podcast from Coode Street. There’s laughter, some silliness, and much rambling. Enjoy!

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Episode 49: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:57:25 +0000

I’m back from Swancon, Gary’s grading papers in Chicago, and it’s a typical Friday evening/Saturday morning at Coode Street. This weekend we talk (for a long time!!!) about the sad news that Joanna Russ has died, Swancon, and lots and lots about awards (all sorts of awards). As always, we hope you enjoy it!

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Episode 48: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 21:56:50 +0000

With Swancon upon us, Gary and I pre-recorded (!) a chat about epic fantasy and such. Enjoy!

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Episode 47: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:01:32 +0000

Fighting the flu, and with Swancon just around the corner, I got Gary on the line to discuss small presses, Geoff Ryman and The Child Garden, new Joan Aiken, Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch, and some other things. Rambling conversation ensued…

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Episode 46: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Farah Mendlesohn, and Tansy Rayner Roberts

Jonathan — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:54:24 +0000

In last week’s episode Gary and I discussed the work of the late Diana Wynne Jones. Our discussion raised comments from several people that we’d not done justice to Jones, and so we invited Farah Mendlesohn (author of Diana Wynne Jones: Children’s Literature and the Fantastic Tradition) and author and critic Tansy Rayner Roberts to join us to discuss Jones’ work, legacy and place in the science fiction and fantasy field. We’d like to thank both of them for joining us in the pod.

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Episode 45: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:23:15 +0000

Well, the world turned upside down. For scheduling reasons we recorded at a new time, so it was morning in Chicago and late in the evening in Perth. We barely knew what to do, but we did discuss Diana Wynne Jones, Shaun Tan, cover art, framing questions, and other stuff. We’ll return to normal next week, but hope this works (Apologies for a brief glitch at the 9min mark or so).

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Episode 44: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:54:28 +0000

And we’re back to normal. Gary returned to Chicago from ICFA to dine with China Mieville and write his column, while Jonathan was struck down by an unpleasant bug. Nontheless, climbing from his sick bed, he called Gary to discuss awards, book collecting, using genre as a lens, and some other stuff. As always, they hope you enjoy this podcast!

Oh, and thank you! The Coode Street Podcast has been nominated for a 2011 Ditmar Award. Thank you to every one who nominated and congratulations to our fellow nominees from Galactic Suburbia, Bad Film Diaries, and The Writer and the Critic!

Note: We have moved The Coode Street Podcast to a new hosting service. Please consider updating your subscription to this iTunes subscription link, or use the embedded player below. We will continue to copy the podcast here and to the old iTunes subscription for a while, but it would help if you updated. Thanks!!!

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Episode 43 redux

Jonathan — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 22:52:31 +0000

It seems that iTunes is struggling to parse the feed for this episode, so I’m posting a different one. I’ll also put out a more general notice and plan to repeat it at the beginning of the next episode, but we’ve moved our hosting for the podcast to cope with the number of downloads. If you subscribe to the podcast using iTunes please consider changing your subscription from Notes from Coode Street to The Coode Street Podcast [subscribe link] . Thank you!

Episode 43: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Karen Burnham, Jeffrey Ford, and Liza Groen Trombi

Jonathan — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:43:29 +0000

Convention season is upon us and, on the eve of his birthday, Gary K. Wolfe has ventured out into aligator-infested Florida in search of conversation, con-buddies and, above all else, boat drinks! In the first of what might just be a series of one podcasts, Gary invited Locus Publications editor-in-chief Liza Groen Trombi, editor and critic Karen Burnham, and award winning author Jeffrey Ford (visiting from the wilds of New Jersey) to sit down and join us in a fairly impromptu and rambling podcast.

Starting without an agenda (or in truth any kind of plan at all) we discuss science fiction criticism and the search for the modern essay, the digital age, Locus online, awards seasons, Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, The Secret Life of Laird Barron, and the forthcoming Key West Literary Seminar (it’s about the literature of the future this time out).

As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

ETA: If you’re having difficulty downloading the podcast, please try the player below.

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Episode 42: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:17:34 +0000

With the Galactic Suburbanites celebrating their birthday just a couple of days ago, Gary and I once again jumped into the pod to record episode 42 (well, 45 if you include the non-series eps) where we discuss George R.R. Martin’s Dance, the Kindle, the iPad, thrillers vs. science fiction, self-publishing, ICFA, and throw in a bit of digital waffle. This is the last podcast before Gary heads off for his 65th birthday (!), so we hope you enjoy it. We’ll see you next week!

Episode 41: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:04:09 +0000

Amongst audio chaos and another mumble about the weather, Gary and I jumped into the Pod to discuss the recently released Clarke and Stoker ballots, Shaun Tan’s Oscar win, community and other bits and pieces. We hope you enjoy this rather rambling instalment…

Episode 40: Live with Gary Wolfe redux

Jonathan — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:37:59 +0000

A note to subscribers. Due to high traffic I’ve had to move the podcast to a new host. This seemed to go smoothly last week, but has caused problems this week. While downloading from here should continue to work seamlessly (heh), you can download it from jonathanstrahan.podbean.com. If you use iTunes you might want to search for and subscribe to The Coode Street Hour. My sincere apologies for the inconvenience to people who’ve tried and failed to download the podcast and my thanks for persevering.

Episode 40: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:23:44 +0000

It was a bright and sunny morning – the annual excoriation of the masses here in Perth, and a particularly vicious one – so Gary and I fired up Skype and had a long chat about the Nebula Awards, how e-readers are impacting on the management of the reviewing cycle, the work of Peter S. Beagle and some other stuff. As always, we hope you enjoy it!

Edited to correct link to audio file for second time. Apologies. You can also try this direct link.

Episode 39: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Garth Nix!

Jonathan — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 04:01:52 +0000

And it’s another weekend. This morning Garth Nix, bestselling author of the ‘Keys to the Kingdom’ and ‘Old Kingdom’ series, among many wonderful novels, joined Gary and I in the pod to discuss what ‘young adult’ means, the current troubles with bookselling and book publishing, ebooks, his forthcoming novels Troubletwisters (with Sean Williams) and A … Continue reading »

Episode 38: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:44:56 +0000

That’s better! Technical difficulties behind us, Gary and a slightly hungover I jumped into the pod to discuss Carol Emshwiller, the right time to publish a book, optimistic SF, the death of SF and all sorts of other stuff. We hope you enjoy it, as always!

Episode 37: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:05:33 +0000

We had problems. That’s why the podcast is late. It was Saturday morning. The sun was up in Perth, and we were set to record (well, it was snowing in Garyland, but you know what I mean). We got to discussing all sorts of things like recommended reading lists and such, then something at Gary’s end went pffft! We resumed on a landline, but the quality does drop out somewhat about half way through. Our sincere apologies for that. We hope it will all be back to normal for #38 next week. In the meantime, enjoy!

Episode 36: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 23:15:45 +0000

It all seems so long ago, but yesterday morning Gary and I climbed in the pod to discuss the Crawford Awards, Shaun Tan’s Oscar nomination, genre terminology, and Margo Lanagan’s Yellowcake. We rambled, but kept it all to a reasonable length. As always, we hope you enjoy it.

The Sounds of Now: An Australia Day podcast

Jonathan — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:15:26 +0000

And now, a non-series podcast. It’s Australia Day, and in recogition of this auspicious day Alex and Tansy from Galactic Suburbia and I chatted about Australian SF, its past present and future.

Episode 35: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:16:10 +0000

Amanda Palmer has been touring Down Under, her new album is out, and soon she’ll be playing here in sunny Perth. It also will be my 12th wedding anniversary this coming Monday, so we celebrate tonight.

Against a background of all of this happy news, Gary and I jumped into the pod to discuss slippage, why I hate the term ‘specfic’ and lots and lots of other stuff (including the happy news of our BSFA Award nomination and why Adam Roberts deserves chocolate, or at least a good stiff drink). We failed to keep it under an hour, but we tried. As always, we hope you enjoy it and that you’ll join us again next week!

Episode 34: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 02:33:36 +0000

Another busy Saturday morning, Friday evening, and time for another missive sent out to the interwebs. Gary and I jumped (well strolled) into the pod without any set plans on what to discuss and ended up talking about L. Ron Hubbard, movies, Fringe, the evils (or inconveniences) of PDFs, and lots of other stuff.

On a serious note, we also discussed Tehani Wessely’s After the Flood Queensland Flood ebook. Please do support it, and the Queensland flood victims, by donating $A10.00 and getting a copy of the ebook. Also, if you like the book give some thought to going back to Fablecroft’s site in April and buying the physical book too.

Episode 33: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 04:20:38 +0000

There was an air of unfinished business in the pod this morning as I got Gary K. Wolfe on the line from sunny Chicago and we discussed the Coode St Best of 2011 and many other things. It is very much our usual natter, and as always, we hope you find it of interest. And, … Continue reading »

Episode 32: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:14:21 +0000

After a little too much New Year and birthday cheer we had technical difficulties, but Gary and I still found time to discuss birthday presents, Heinlein, 1967 as a transition year for science fiction, where non-academic cricitism has a role to play in modern SF, and previewed the Coode Street Best of 2010 (we name … Continue reading »

Boxing Day Super Mega Podcast

Jonathan — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:50:33 +0000

Here in Australia the day after Christmas is a special one, dedicated to winding down after a day of feasting and gift giving, laughter and merriment. Things slow down – unless you have a taste for the mega-discount sales – and people tend to relax with family.

This morning, Perth time, at least, a bunch of participants in Australian podcasting joined together to record a Boxing Day Super Mega Podcast. Participating were:

Alex, Alisa, and Tansy from Galactic Suburbia;
Grant from Bad Film Diaries;
Ian from The Writer and the Critic; and
Gary and I from The Coode St Podcast.

It was seven people talking, in a fairly organised manner about their highlights of 2010 and what they’re looking forward to in 2011. We all hope you enjoy it, and that you check out the individual podcasts that will be coming out in future weeks and months.

Episode 31: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 04:35:29 +0000

The original episode 31 didn’t work out, so we knuckled down and did it again just so we would have it all done and dusted, as promised. We discussed some of the same things, but also got to the Coode St Book Club, more apocalypses, and our favorite books of the year.

Episode 30: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:44:22 +0000

Gary and I fired up the podcasting paraphernalia connecting Coode Street directly to East Cedar Ave, and spent time talking about Jo Walton, her novel Among Others, Niall Harrison’s Top 10 SF Novels by Women, and other stuff. As always, enjoy!

Episode 29: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, John Clute and Cheryl Morgan!

Jonathan — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:30:08 +0000

There was birthday cake to be had so Gary was on a plane and off to sunny Camden Town in the UK, leaving snowbound Chicago in his wake, where he sat down with John Clute (of The SF Encyclopedia and other fame) and Cheryl Morgan (of Salon Futura) and we all discussed cockroach quantums, cozy apocalypses, and seeing genre as a lens rather than a box (or something like that), and everyone expressed themselves with admirable equipoise!

Episode 28: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:59:34 +0000

After some technical hitches and interruptions, which lead to a classic (no, really, classic) Lost Podcast, Gary and I fire up Skype and talk about old farts, anthologies, Hugos and stuff.

Episode 27: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 02:38:07 +0000

As the weather turned towards the late fall in Chicago and the excoriating heat of early summer in Perth, we jumped back into the pod to discuss 2010, recommended lists and what they mean, ebooks, and all sorts of other stuff. As always, enjoy! We’ll be back next weekend.

Episode 26: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:49:16 +0000

And we found him! Gary returned from the wilds of Louisiana where he seems to have suffered through awesome parties, excellent musical performances, and wonderful meals to join me in the Pod to discuss his adventures in New Orleans, Neil Gaiman, a science fiction sense of community, ending the year in SF, whether Lois McMaster Bujold writes hard science fiction, and why we don’t know who the nominees were for the 1956 Hugo Awards.

The Coode Street Feminist Advisory Committee Auxilliary Podcast: Live with Tansy Rayner Roberts

Jonathan — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 04:46:49 +0000

Well, Gary is off in the wilds of New Orleans for matters celebratory, enjoying good food and better company while I was at home in Perth slaving over a hot anthology. In the interests of podcasty goodness, I called up Tany Rayner Robers from the Coode Street Feminist Advisory Committee and we discussed the year … Continue reading »

Episode 25: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:10:14 +0000

And we’re back. Gary’s safely at home in Chicago, I’m back in Perth (facing insane and disappointing deadlines), and we’re podcasting the way we were meant to – long distance! We discuss the World Fantasy Awards and other such things. Enjoy!

Edit: Podcast edited to remove final 3 mins not intended for release.

Episode 24: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Alisa Krasnostein, Karen Burnham and Francesa Mayman

Jonathan — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:36:42 +0000

Live from the Locus/Twelfth Planet Press in the World Fantasy Convention 2010 dealer’s room, Gary and I chat with Alisa, Karen and Francesca about World Fantasy, women at conventions, and all sorts of other stuff. We ramble. The sound quality may be affected by the venue, along with random background announcements, but we hope you … Continue reading »

Episode 23: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:10:58 +0000

And we’re back! It’s Columbus, it’s World Fantasy and Gary and I recorded a short podcast today, face to face for the first time. More to come!

Episode 22: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:58:09 +0000

The countdown to Columbus and World Fantasy is one. Less than two weeks till I get there, and with deadlines bearing down Gary and I fired up Skype and discussed the World Fantasy Awards, mortality, the AUS/USD exchange rate, The Hobbit getting the green light, and, in response to a follow-up question in comments, even more on novellas. We hope you enjoy.

On a related note, I’ll be travelling next weekend so we’re not sure if we’ll get a podcast recording session, but we will make every effort to do so. And if we don’t, we’ll make up for it in Columbus!

Episode 21: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:43:13 +0000

And we’re at it again. Taking a question from the blog comments, Gary sat down in Chicago on a Friday evening with a glass of red wine and I sat down on a Saturday morning with a cup of coffee, and we discussed the top anthologies and collections of the past 20 years. As usual, … Continue reading »

Episode 20: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 05:12:51 +0000

Young adult science fiction, gender, race, Scott Westerfeld’s Behemoth, the very sad passing of Ralph Vicinanza, Australian SF compared to SF from the rest of the world: these and other things were discussed when Gary and I fired up podcast #20 this morning. It seemed to go pretty well. We hope you enjoy it!

Episode 19: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 06:24:58 +0000

Things slowly get back to normal as Gary and I jump back into the pod to discuss radical new hard SF, Interzone, Paul McAuley, Stephen Baxter, whether Mundane SF makes any sense, what we’ve been reading and some other stuff in what struck me as we were chatting as a particularly crunchy podcast. I did ask for suggestions on Twitter, but got so involved in this that I didn’t get to them. I’ve made note though, and we’ll get to them next week!

Episode 18: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:05:12 +0000

We’re back! This morning I entered the pod here in Perth, fired up Skype and called Gary in Chicago. He’s just back from California, and I’m not long back from Aussiecon in Melbourne so we chatted about awards, eligibility and nominations, the 100 Days, and a lot of other things. It’s good to be recording … Continue reading »

Episode 17: Live with Alisa Krasnostein and Tansy Rayner Roberts!

Jonathan — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 08:51:26 +0000

Well, I’ve been away and not podcasting. Went to Melbourne. Gary’s been out and about as well, visiting California for the Writers of the Future and other reasons. We’ll be back as normal this coming weekend, but in the meantime I called up two members of the Coode St Feminist Advisory Committee, Alisa and Tansy, to discuss all sorts of things to do with science fiction, awards, awareness and other stuff. It was a lot of fun to do, and I’m sure there’ll be more crossover podcasts in the months ahead.

Episode 16: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:45:53 +0000

Although we’re having a Federal election here in Australia, and I had to get out and fulfil my democratic obligations, I still found time to jump on to Skype and call Gary to talk about things science-fictional. We covered reviewing, the end of “books you don’t need to read’, The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, our awesome technical skills as podcasters, the Coode Street Feminist Advisory Committee (we may need t-shirts), and all sorts of other things in another longish podcast. We have also accepted we could talk forever – I think we chatted for more than an hour that we didn’t record. We hope you enjoy it!

Edit: People have had problems with this episode. I’ve republished it on the new host. Hope that solves the problem.

Episode 15: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:40:00 +0000

We’re running late here at Coode St. No fault of the indefatigable Gary K. Wolfe, who fired up Skype late on Friday evening to record a new podcast, but more due to some issues to to with data storage. I’m still working on those, but her, after some peer review, is the latest, our fifteenth! We natter about a number of things, all of which I should probably list, but will instead leave for you to discover as I’m in something of a rush. Enjoy!

Episode 14: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:55:17 +0000

Winter seems to have little interest in Perth at the moment. There’s the occasional shower, some cold mornings, but basically beautiful cool, sunny days. Against that backdrop, I called Gary in Chicago this morning and we discussed:

science fiction in translation,
the place of bestselling fantasy in the field (a little),
awards, and
a new book you don’t need to read (though we did go round about it a little).

It’s another longish podcast. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Episode 13: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:56:30 +0000

When Gary and I signed off last week we agreed we’d plan this podcast to save all you good people from waffling. Hmm. Well, that didn’t quite happen, so this is a second (shorter) waffly podcast). This week we waffle about Paolo Bacigalupi, awards, the fate of science fiction, and a new book you don’t … Continue reading »

Episode 12: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:50:16 +0000

Well, Gary Wolfe and I got on Skype this morning with no real idea about what we might discuss, other than a passing desire not to retread old grown. After a bit of waffling, we got down to serious waffling and spent some time discussing:

William Gibson’s Zero History and what makes a book that isn’t SF feel like SF. This follows-on from comments by Alex, Alisa and Tansy on the most recent Galactic Suburbia podcast
why SF loves novellas
the influence of Charles N. Brown on science fiction, us and the podcast;
our second official “Book You Don’t Need to Read”; and
sundry other stuff.

In amongst it all I spend some time recommending Galactic Suburbia (go listen!) and we sort of natter for a good while. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Episode 11: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:11:44 +0000

Gary Wolfe and I are back by ourselves, guest-less, recording the podcast live from Chicago and Perth on a sunny Sunday morning. We spend some time discussing:

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
how quantum mechanics has changed hard SF and whether hard SF really can continue to exist as we once knew it;
Zendegi by Greg Egan;
What I Didn’t See: Stories by Karen Joy Fowler;
James Tiptree Jr, feminism, diversity and SF;
what a great year 2010 is proving to be; and
our first official “Book You Don’t Need to Read“.

This is our longest ever podcast, so our apologies for going on a bit. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Episode 10: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Elizabeth Hand, and Peter Straub

Jonathan — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:59:00 +0000

Gary Wolfe checks in from Readercon in Burlingham MA and brings guests Elizabeth Hand and Peter Straub to the table. This time we discuss: the art of the novella why Readercon is worth attending outsider art, Henry Darger, crypto-aviation, and all sorts of other neat stuff. We hope you enjoy it as always and will … Continue reading »

Episode 9: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:16:04 +0000

Gary Wolfe and I are back for a new podcast, and this time with no added guest magic. This time we discuss:

how some awards work, including the World Fantasy Awards,
believing in science fiction and its futures,
and a lot of other stuff too.

There’s probably some other stuff, but we recorded this this morning and I’m not going to re-listen to the whole thing. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Episode 8: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Jeremy Lassen

Jonathan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:48:36 +0000

Editor and publisher Jeremy Lassen of Night Shade Books joins Gary and I for a new podcast as our second ever guest. Jeremy and Gary were in Seattle at the Locus Awards/Science Fiction Hall of Fame weekend while I was still pottering around after breakfast while one kid was off at swimming lessons in Perth.

I once again showed mylack of technical skills in the audio arena, but we discussed:

the Locus Awards and being in Seattle;
Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl and understanding science fiction in 21st Century world;
how science fiction still isn’t dying;
rescheduling Eclipse Four; and
a little bit on gender and the SF Hall of Fame (more to come here!).

There’s probably some other stuff, but we recorded this this morning and I’m not going to re-listen to the whole thing. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Episode 7: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Amelia Beamer

Jonathan — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:41:56 +0000

Author, critic, photographer, and Locus editor Amelia Beamer joins Gary and I for a new podcast as our first ever guest. Amelia was only just home from Locus HQ in Oakland, Gary was taking some time out from reading for his column in Chicago, and I was still pottering around after breakfast while the kids are off at swimming lessons in Perth.

I once again showed mylack of technical skills in the audio arena, but we discussed:

being a first-time novelist, writing and The Loving Dead;
Kim Stanley Robinson’s astounding new short story; and
the SF Signal Mind Meld on short story collections you have to have and whether there’s a language we can use to discuss the history of the SF field that’s inclusive,

There’s probably some other stuff, but we recorded this this morning and I’m not going to re-listen to the whole thing. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Episode 6: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:52:50 +0000

Every Saturday morning now Gary and I fire up Skype to record the latest in our series of chats. Gary’s usually not that long home from his office in Chicago, while I’m mostly still pottering around after breakfast while the kids are off at swimming lessons.

We did it again yesterday morning, and we once again reveal our collective lack of technical skills in the audio arena and briefly mention:

getting contributor’s copies,
re-editing classic books,
ebook design and the iPad,
books I’d like to see exist that don’t,
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson and how humanists wrote short fiction,
entry-level SF novels and anthologies,
year’s bests,
the lack of SF for children, and
spend some time discussing Nnedi Okorafor and her novel Who Fears Death.

There’s probably some other stuff, but we recorded this yesterday and I’m not going to re-listen to the whole thing. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Episode 5: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:49:22 +0000

Gary calls in from Florida and we talk about all sorts of stuff in our latest chatfest.

Episode 4: Live with Gary K. Wolfe

Jonathan — Sun, 30 May 2010 07:46:16 +0000

And we do it again! Our fourth ramble, this time touching on all sorts of things, many of which we’ve touched on before!

Episode 3: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:03:20 +0000

The third episode in our new (but still continuing!) series of conversations is now live. There are still a few audio hitches that I’m trying to iron out, but all in all it’s ok. I did the stereo thing again – it seems to be a default setting – so I’ll work harder on getting you a good old fashioned mono recording next weekend. This time we discuss reviewing, books, and all sorts of other stuff. I did promise to mention any specific titles, but today’s chat is pretty general so there’s nothing specific to mention. Except, oops, The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, we do discuss that a bit. More next week!

Episode 2: Live with Gary Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:04:06 +0000

In the second of our regular series of weekly podcasts Gary Wolfe and I discuss canon formation, Joanna Russ, and all sorts of other stuff. It’s kinda long. I accidentally messed up the first take so this actually is a complete re-recording. We hope you like it. Right now we plan to do this pretty … Continue reading »

Episode 1: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Jonathan — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:24:46 +0000

Here is the first full-length Coode Street podcast. Recorded just minutes ago, Gary and I discuss what it means to work and review for Locus, SF’s attraction to the ‘new’ in new weird, new space opera and new sword and sorcery, career pressure on short story writers, as well as books by China Mieville and others. We also mention some books we’re looking forward to. With a little luck we’ll podcast regularly (every week or two), so we hope you enjoy it. Also if there are any problems with the audio, my apologies. I’m still working this out.