Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Multiple award-nominee Benjamin Rosenbaum discusses the pandemic as seen from Switzerland, learning to write in his garden when cafes are no longer available, designing board games with his son, the reboot of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, rereading classic SF, and his own recent stories and forthcoming genderless novel.

Books mentioned include:

• The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum (forthcoming)
• Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
• My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier
• This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
• A Princess of Roumania by Paul Park
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Startide Rising by David Brin
• The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov