Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Over the past decade Daniel Abraham has become famous as half of James S.A. Corey, creators of The Expanse, but in addition to creating incredible space opera and great television, Daniel has crafted some of the best science fiction and fantasy of the past decade. Today he talks to Jonathan about reading, writing, and working during the pandemic, working for television, the work of Tim Powers and Carmen Maria Machado, and much more.

You can listen to an excerpt from Daniel’s story, “Yuli”, right now and if you live in the US and are over 18 you can enter our sweepstakes to win one of ten copies by following this link!

Books mentioned include:

• Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey
• Last Call by Tim Powers
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• The Plague by Albert Camus

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Today Jonathan fires up Skype and calls sunny New York to talk to the fabulous Nebula Award-winning author of The Only Harmless Great Thing, Brooke Bolander, about reading, writing and living during the pandemic, the comfort of somewhat grim nonfiction, and her contribution to The Book of Dragons.

You can listen to an excerpt from Brooke’s story, “Where the River Turns to Concrete“, right now and if you live in the US and are over 18 you can enter our sweepstakes to win one of ten copies by following this link!

Books mentioned include:

• The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
• The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
• Every Bone a Prayer by Ashley Blooms
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Hugo, Tiptree, and Shirley Jackson Award winner Maureen McHugh joins Gary to talk about online teaching during the lockdown, the benefits of Zoom work sessions with fellow writers, the reissue of her classic novel China Mountain Zhang, researching the 13th century, and completing a draft of her first novel in almost two decades(!)

Books mentioned include:

• China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• The Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
• A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Gary chats with A.T. Greenblatt — this year’s short story Nebula winner for “Give the Family My Love” — about the pleasures of escape reading even in normal times, listening to romances, mysteries, and memoirs, the graphic novels of Marjorie Liu and Neil Gaiman, the Murderbot stories of Martha Wells, and serious walking as an inspiration for fiction.

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Books mentioned include:

• Educated by Tara Westover
• Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• The Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
• Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
• The Sandman by Neil Gaiman et al.

Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.

Legendary fan, publisher, and critic Cheryl Morgan talks with Gary about some favourite new and forthcoming books; the comfort in watching classic TV and movies; watching Doom Patrol and Black Panther; Sam Jordison and Galley Beggar Press; her own fanzine Salon Futura and Wizard’s Tower Press, and being a sensitivity reader for trans characters and issues.

Books mentioned include:

• The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
• Mordew by Alex Pheby
• The Green Man’s Heir and The Green Man’s Foe by Juliet E. McKenna
• The Tales of Einarinn series by Juliet E. McKenna
• The Aldabreshin Compass series by Juliet E. McKenna
• untitled forthcoming collection by Aleksandar Žiljak