Podbean, the hosting service for The Coode Street Podcast, is experiencing technical difficulties. Podbean have advised that they are undergoing maintenance, but have provided no further information. To date, this “maintenance period” has extended for 24 hrs.
We would like to sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this has caused Coode Street listeners. If the hosting problems continue we will look for a new service. We do have a new episode of the podcast, Episode 92 recorded with special guest Michael Dirda, recorded and ready to go. We look forward to sharing it with you as soon as we can.
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda recently reviewed Keith Roberts’ magestic novel, Pavane, in The Washington Post, describing it as a fix-up novel, a term coined by the late A.E. van Vogt. The review sparked a conversation about fix-ups, what they are and where the term comes from, and how terminology forms in the SF field. It’s digressive, unresearched, and un-factchecked, but at least it’s not talking about awards. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast.
And then we rambled… After several weeks hosting some wonderful guests, this week Gary and I just fired up Skype and rambled away about stuff: the Nebulas, some old Hugos, whether having a Golden Age at all is a good idea. While we apologise for the self-indulgence, we nonetheless hope you enjoy the podcast. Only ten more till the big one!
This week Gary and I are joined by Campbell Memorial Award winning author Barry Malzberg to discuss the Library of America’s American Science Fiction Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s, how the ’50s were the last “Hot Time” in science fiction (or not), and other matters science fictional. As always, we hope you enjoy the discussion.
This week we invited award-winning actor, broadcaster, editor and writer Ellen Kushner to join us to discuss the excellent audiobook adaptation of her novel Swordspoint, which was recently released by Audible, her thoughts on the rise of audiobooks, and her many other projects..
We would like to apologise for the audio quality of some of the podcast, which is a little below what we’d normally hope for. Our primary recording of the ‘cast failed, but we were saved by our newly installed backup recording system. We continue our hunt for improvements, but in the interim thank Ellen, and look forward to seeing you all next week.
