Category Archives: Podcasts

Episode 155: Live with Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages

A little late due to technical issues, but here is Episode 155 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week we asked master storytellers Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages to join us in the Gershwin Room to discuss the writing life, short fiction, collaboration and their forthcoming Tor.com novella “Wakulla Springs”.

As always, our sincere thanks to Andy and Ellen for taking the time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode!

Episode 154: Live with James Bradley

With WorldCon looming in the near future and news of the World Fantasy Awards just around the corner, award-winning writer and critic James Bradley joins Jonathan and Gary in the Waldorf Room to discuss the best in recent science fiction and fantasy. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

00:00 Introduction
01:50 On Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Lord of the Rings and consolation in modern fantasy.
16:10 Arthur C Clarke Award winner Chris Beckett’s Dark Eden.
18:00 On Paul McAuley, Evening’s Empires, and the mission of modern science fiction.
33:00 On the movies Oblivion and Pacific Rim.
36:00 Climate change, recent science fiction and Patrick Flanery’s Fallen Land.
43:00 On Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam
53:00 On Graham Joyce’s The Year of the Ladybird.

Download the episode here.

Episode 153: On Sharknado, politics, and international SF

It was another typical day in the office for the Coode Street team. Having taken the time and made the effort to ascend to the Gershwin Room (there are a LOT of stairs), having avoided the temptations of the Tiki Lounge, having decided not to simply spend their time gossiping, Gary and Jonathan instead turn their attention to pressing issues like Sharknado and modern SF, whether British SF is more political than its US counterparts, and the growning prominence of non-Anglo SF with a minor sidestep into what it is to be an insider in the SF field. Naked attempts to persuade readers to buy new books are truncated by the sudden termination of the podcast due to Jonathan’s PC crashing. Fortunately they were close to done. Still, they hope you enjoy the podcast and remain, now as ever, the mullahs of Coode St.

Episode 151: Live with Robert Shearman and Howard Waldrop

The great Lost Podcasts of 2012 are a part of Coode Street Podcast lore. A sad and painful memory of four wonderful conversations ever lost to perfidious technology. This week one of the participants in those conversations, brilliant short story writer Robert Shearman, and living legend Howard Waldrop, join Gary and Jonathan in a special podcast recorded in Boston at Readercon 24. Much is discussed about the art of the short story, changes in contemporary culture, and more. As always, we hope you enjoy this episode of the podcast!