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Awards eligibility – 2022

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2022 was a year when I edited two original anthologies, five novellas published by Tordocom, eight of Tor.com’s short stories, and acted as reviews editor for Locus for the 20th consecutive year.

As a podcaster, we managed a total of 50 episodes, including the Coode Street Advent Calendar, which was fun.

Fiction edited in 2022

Anthologies

Novellas

Novelette

  • After the Storm, James Bradley (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds, Indrapramit Das (Tor.com)
  • Victory Citrus Is Sweet, Thoraiya Dyer (Tor.com)
  • When the Tide Rises, Sarah Gailey (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Once Upon a Future in the West, Daryl Gregory (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • The Place of all the Souls, Margo Lanagan (Someone in Time)
  • The Chronologist, Ian R. MacLeod (Tor.com)
  • Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit, K.J. Parker (Tor.com)
  • Do You Hear the Fungi Sing?, Chen Quifan (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • I Give You the Moon, Justina Robson (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Seven Vampires: A Judge Dee Mystery, Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com)
  • Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript, Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com)
  • The Difference Between Love and Time, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)

Short story

  • D.I.Y, John Wiswell (Tor.com)
  • The Lichens, Nina Allan (Someone in Time)
  • The Past Life Reconstruction Service, Zen Cho (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Romance Historical, Rowan Coleman (Someone in Time)
  • Crisis Actors, Greg Egan (Someone in Time)
  • Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley, Meg Ellison (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • The Golden Hour, Jeffrey Ford (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • I Remember Satellites, Sarah Gailey (Someone in Time)
  • A Letter to Merlin, Theodora Goss (Someone in Time)
  • Roadside Attraction, Alix E. Harrow (Someone in Time)
  • The Ferryman, Saad Z. Hossain (Someone in Time)
  • Bergamot and Vetiver, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • First Aid, Seanan McGuire (Someone in Time)
  • Unbashed, or: Jackson, Whose Cowardice Tore a Hole in the Chronoverse, Sam Miller (Someone in Time)
  • Choke, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Someone in Time)
  • Legion, Malka Older (Tor.com)
  • Timed Obsolescence, Sameem Sadiqui (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Down and Out in Exile Park, Tade Thompson (Someone in Time)
  • Dead Poets, Carrie Vaughn Carrie Vaughn (Someone in Time)

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.

2023, Podcasts

Coode Street 624: On short fiction

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The_Voice_that_Murmurs_in_the_Darkness_by_Jam...We are always casting around for inspiration. After getting ChatGPT to provide a new introduction for the podcast, Gary and Jonathan kick off a discussion about the health of the short fiction field, the scope and variety of short story collections due to be published in 2023, and share some (okay, many) thoughts on the history of short fiction collections in the science fiction field.

As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast. We’ll see you again in two weeks.

2023, Podcasts

Episode 623: The 2022 Locus Recommended Reading List

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locus745.jpegThis week, in our more-or-less annual discussion of the Locus Recommended Reading List, we are delighted to be joined by Locus Editor-in-Chief Liza Groen Trombi.

We talk about the purpose of the list, how it has changed over the years, how books or stories get on the list, and a few thorny questions about how to decide whether a novel is SF or fantasy if it contains substantial elements of both. In addition to mentioning some of our own favourite works of the year, we touch upon the importance of the First Novels list, which might be a harbinger of what’s to come, and how story collections and YA novels have grown in importance over the years.

As always, our thanks to Liza and we hope you enjoy the episode.

2023, Podcasts

Episode 622: More about space opera

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It’s not been that long since they last discussed it, but this week Jonathan and Gary return to the question of space opera, new space opera, and what contemporary SF authors might make of the concept.

Is space opera the core narrative of SF, as Jonathan suggests, or only one of them? What are its essential characteristics? Has the greater diversity of SF over the last decade changed its basic form? It seems that when the term was first coined, it clearly referred to pulp adventure tales that we popular in the 1930s. But later versions have questioned the assumptions of those old chestnuts, redefining the form for each generation.

How, for example, do current writers like Arkady Martine, Charlie Jane Anders, and Emily Tesh make use of the form? We definitely don’t settle any of these questions, but we’ll probably keep trying.

Journal

Weekend of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth

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On paper, it was a good weekend.  Saturday I took the youngest out to Costco to pick up some things for her short film shoot that’s happening next week. We then stopped at Whisked the Right Wei, one of the better patisseries in Perth, and got coffee at a Kwik drive-through. I then took the eldest daughter out on our regular carpool karaoke trip to Yahava Koffee in the Swan Valley. Saturday evening was fairly quiet, with me watching a little bit of Fleishman is in Trouble and reading more of Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory.

I was up fairly early on Sunday. Not as early as Marianne, who drove the youngest around to do more film shoot prep. I was out at Clancy’s Fish Pub by 9.15 am for a regular meet-up with my dear pal Richard, and then home by noon, to take M and the eldest out for lunch in Guildford (at the Guildford Hotel). Then home and back out again to the Civic Hotel to see Amanda, Dave, Karen, and Chris for drinks. Dinner was a quick barbecue, it being well into barbecue season. Hit the sack at 9 pm, but was awake by midnight, so not sleeping well.

I remain unfocused, but I need to address that.  There are some underlying health concerns I need to address, but for the moment socialising overwhelmed work this weekend. As for the week ahead, I need to seriously start on the Tachyon anthology, edit a novella, deal with the day job, and do some other stuff too. Oh, and get a haircut.