Once again Gary and Jonathan ascend to the Waldorf Room high above the Coode St Motel Six, to find there’s not all that much happening in SF right now (where IS that World Fantasy Awards ballot?), and so they discuss books to give to people who are interesting in reading SF for the first time and a possible Coode St Award.

After a final July hiatus we’re back! This weekend Gary and I headed to the Waldorf Room to discuss thoughts on Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 and SF set within our Solar System, World Fantasy Award Lifetime Achievement recipients Alan Garner and George R.R. Martin, and recent issues at Readercon. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

When I was in Melbourne last month I was delighted to be invited to appear as a guest on Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond’s podcast, The Writer and the Critic. I had a wonderful evening out at Kirstyn’s house talking about life, the universe and podcasting, as well as getting to talk about Sean Stewart’s Galveston, Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch, and Caitlin R. Kiernan’s The Drowning Girl.  You can find the podcast episode here, along with detailed show notes that allow you to jump to the part of the show that interests you most.

My sincere thanks to Ian and Kirstyn for having me on the show!!

After a short break, we’re back! Gary travelled to Massachusetts to attend Readercon 23 and managed to persuade convention guests of honor Caitlin R. Kiernan and Peter Straub to join us to discussCaitlin’s most recent novel The Drowning Girl,  writing, Readercon and much, much more. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Even high atop the Coode Street Motel 6 we’re aware of the pressures of time passing. Deadlines pile up, rather less attractively than fresh falls of snow early in the Winter, and July looks set to be a month when things Must Be Done: stories edited, books delivered and so on.

And time is limited. So, with some reluctant, we’re amending our usual regular schedule of a new Coode Street Podcast every darned week. Instead, and for the month of July only, we will be recording every second week. This means the new schedule for the Waldorf Room is:

7-8 July:    No podcast
14-15 July: Gary goes to Readercon. Podcast!
21-22 July: No podcast
28-29 July:    Podcast!

We’ll then return to our schedule of a new podcast every darned week in August. We’re yet to decide what we’re doing through August, though I do know we have some interesting guests lined up and that we hope to record a whole batch of podcasts during Chicon 7 at the end of the month. We’ve not planned those yet, but we need a sufficient backlog to see us through the World Fantasy Convention Hiatus, when we will all be travelling and things will be discombobulated.

We do appreciate your understanding and patience during July and will see you back in the Waldorf Room, or wherever your listen to the podcast, in two weeks.