On the cusp of our 100th episode Gary and I fire up Skype to talk about year’s bests, awards, genre and other stuff. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

After taking time off last week, Gary and I are back with Nnedi Okorafor,  award winning author of Who Fears Death, Akata Witch and many other wonderful books  and stories to discuss African science fiction, Nigeria, the World Fantasy Award and much, much more.  As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast and will see you next week when we resume our normal weekly schedule!

Chicon 7, the 70th Annual World Science Fiction Convention, has announced the nominees for the 2012 Hugo Awards (see list here). This morning, just hours after the ballot was announced, Gary and I were joined by Locus Executive Editor Liza Groen Trombi to chat about the ballot and all things Hugo. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, has anounced the nominees for the Hugo Awards and the Campbell Award.  You can see a full list of the nominees here. I am delighted and honored that The Coode Street Podcast has been nominated along with four other incredibly deserving nominees for Best Fancast, and heartened more than I can say to be nominated for Best Editor, Short Form. I’d like to thank everyone who nominated, all record 1,101 of you, for your being involved in the process. It is a humbling thing and is always a great honor and privilege.  I’m also incredibly delighted to share a nomination with my dear friend,  Gary Wolfe. I won’t be in Chicago this year, so please party like ridiculously happy people with much running around shouting YAAAAY and flailing arms like muppets for me. It should be a great night!

With Gary now safely home from Florida and all of that ICFA craziness, we sat down to discuss recent events. Most prominent on our minds was Christopher Priest’s passionate but somewhat controversial discussion of the Arthur C. Clarke Award nominees. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!