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2015, Podcasts

Episode 220: William Gibson, Eileen Gunn, and Chris Brown

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Welcome to The Coode Street Podcast, an informal weekly discussion about science fiction and fantasy featuring award-winning critics and editors Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe.  The Coode Street Podcast debuted in 2010 and has been nominated for the Hugo, British Science Fiction, and Aurealis awards.

This week Jonathan and Gary talk to old friend  Eileen Gunn, along with  Chris Brown,  and very special guest  William Gibson , in a discussion that ranges from William’s recent novel The Peripheral to the influences of writers as diverse as Mervyn Peake, Philip K. Dick, Alfred Bester, and Avram Davidson and the question of what it means to write in and out of genre. We hope you find it as interesting as we all did recording it. 

Coode Street, Episode 220 (1hr 17mins)

The Coode Street Podcast is published by The Coode Street Press and Gary K. Wolfe, and is syndicated by Tor.com.
2015, Podcasts

Episode 218: Harlan Ellison, Bill Schafer and the Volcano

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This week, in honor of the new Subterranean Press volume The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison, we are joined by Harlan himself, along with Subterranean publisher William Schafer.

Although Jonathan wasn’t able to join us on this one, we get into some fascinating stories about Thomas Pynchon, Octavia Butler, Harlan’s famous house (including the “grotto”), the role of small-press publishers in the history of the field, and what it all looks like from the perspective of a legendary writer in his 81st year.

Note: There’s a break at the 42min mark when Gary’s cat stepped on his laptop and paused the recording. A few minutes were missed, but conversation continued!!

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Awards Eligibility – 2014

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Awards season is once again  moving into full swing, with nominations now open for the Nebula Awards, Hugo Awards and World Fantasy Awards.

Having been fairly busy during 2014, I’ve been fortunate enough to help publish a number of what I think are really excellent works of fiction that I think are worthy of your consideration. It was a year when I edited or co-edited a new collection of Jack Vance fiction, three anthologies, edited an issue of an online magazine, appeared on more than 40 podcast episodes, and still acted as reviews editor for Locus.

The anthologies, of which I’m very proud, are:

Fearsome Magics (Solaris)
Reach for Infinity (Solaris)
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight (Solaris)
Subterranean Magazine, Winter 2014 (Subterranean)

As a guide, fiction in Reach for Infinity is science fiction, in Fearsome Magics is fantasy/dark fantasy, and in Subterranean Magazine is mixed.

Fiction edited in 2014

Short story

“Caligo Lane”, Ellen Klages (Subterranean)
“Amicae Aeternum”, Ellen Klages (Reach for Infinity)
“Invisible Planets”, Hannu Rajaniemi (Reach for Infinity)
“Devil’s Bridge”, Frances Hardinge (Fearsome Magics)
“Nanny Anne”, Karen Joy Fowler (Subterranean)
“Hiraeth: A Tragedy in Four Acts”, Karen Lord (Reach for Infinity)
“Where Our Edges Lie”, Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Fearsome Magics)
“Aberration”, Genevieve Valentine (Fearsome Magics)
“The Entire Immense Superstructure’: An Installation”, Ken Macleod (Reach for Infinity)
“Dream London Hospital”, Tony Ballantyne (Fearsome Magics)
“Migration”, Karin Tidbeck (Fearsome Magics)
“The Dun Letter”, Christopher Rowe (Fearsome Magics)
“In Babelsberg”, Alastair Reynolds (Reach for Infinity)
“The Scrivener”, Eleanor Arnason (Subterranean)
“Trademark Bugs: A Legal History”, Adam Roberts (Reach for Infinity)
“Hay Fever”, Frances Hardinge (Subterranean)
“Hey Presto!”, Ellen Klages (Fearsome Magics)
“On Skybolt Mountain”, Justina Robson (Fearsome Magics)
“The Nursery Corner”, Kaaron Warren (Fearsome Magics)
“Safe House”, K J Parker (Fearsome Magics)
“The Prelate’s Commission”, Jeffrey Ford (Subterranean)
“I Met A Man Who Wasn’t There.”, KJ Parker (Subterranean)
“Hotshot”, Peter Watts (Reach for Infinity)
“The Dust Queen”, Aliette de Bodard (Reach for Infinity)

Novelette

“The Fifth Dragon”, Ian McDonald (Reach for Infinity)
“Break My Fall”, Greg Egan (Reach for Infinity)
“Attitude”, Linda Nagata (Reach for Infinity)
“Grigori’s Solution”, Isobelle Carmody (Fearsome Magics)
“Report Concerning the Presence of Seahorses On Mars”, Pat Cadigan (Reach for Infinity)
“The Changeling”, James Bradley (Fearsome Magics)
“Bit Players”, Greg Egan (Subterranean)
“Ice in the Bedroom”, Robert Shearman (Fearsome Magics)
“Kheldyu”, Karl Schroeder (Reach for Infinity)
“Wilder Still”, the Stars”, Kathleen Ann Goonan (Reach for Infinity)
“Home is the Haunter”, Garth Nix (Fearsome Magics)

Novella

“Pilgrims of the Round World”, Bruce Sterling (Subterranean)

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

  • Jonathan Strahan (Fearsome Magics, Reach for Infinity, Subterranean, Winter 2014, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eight, Locus [reviews editor], Minding the Stars)

Best Fancast

The Coode Street Podcast [Episodes 175 – 212] [co-hosted with Gary K. Wolfe.]

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

2015, Podcasts

Episode 217: James Morrow, SF, Satire, Religion, and Other Matters

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51J%2BsR8NyWL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpThis week we welcome James Morrow, one of SF’s premier satirists, whose new novel Galapagos Regained is just out, taking on Darwinism, Victorian religious attitudes, the Book of Mormon, and Morrow’s frequent themes of rationalism vs. received belief. 

We also touch upon the role of a religious satirist, the Charlie Hebdo assassinations, old SF movies and TV programs, Morrow’s recent novellas Shambling Towards Hiroshima and The Madonna and the Starship, and his forthcoming collection Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow from Wesleyan University Press.