Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, has anounced the nominees for the Hugo Awards and the Campbell Award.  You can see a full list of the nominees here. I am delighted and honored that The Coode Street Podcast has been nominated along with four other incredibly deserving nominees for Best Fancast, and heartened more than I can say to be nominated for Best Editor, Short Form. I’d like to thank everyone who nominated, all record 1,101 of you, for your being involved in the process. It is a humbling thing and is always a great honor and privilege.  I’m also incredibly delighted to share a nomination with my dear friend,  Gary Wolfe. I won’t be in Chicago this year, so please party like ridiculously happy people with much running around shouting YAAAAY and flailing arms like muppets for me. It should be a great night!

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 Christopher Priest’s passionate but somewhat controversial discussion of the Arthur C. Clarke Award nominees. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

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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, and Nalo Hopkinson for a discussion on writing, cover art and many other things. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

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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, short stories, writing novels, Andy’s first short story collection in eleven years, The Pottawottamie Giant and Other Stories, and much more! As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

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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) our good friend Peter Straub was visiting Gary’s stylish Chicago pied-à-terre, so we fired up the podcast and had a pre-dinner chat about literary boundaries, modern horror, writing, Caitlin Kiernan and much much more. As always, our thanks to Peter for joining us. We hope that you’ll enjoy the podcast. Next week: ICFA!

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