In recent weeks Coode Street has discussed the national SF scenes in the United Kimgdom, Australia and China. This week we are joined by Peter Halasz and Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Robert J Sawyer, both long-standing advocates of Canadian science fiction, to discuss what’s happening in SF/F north of the US border.
We’d like to thank both Bob and Peter for joining us in what was a very spirited and energetic discussion. Next week: Kameron Hurley! Â Till then, we hope you enjoy the episode.
Following on from our recent conversations about British and Australian Science Fiction, this week we invited Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winning author and translator Ken Liu to join us to discuss translating fiction, his experiences with Chinese SF and his forthcoming translation of Liu Cixin’s The Three Body Problem (which Gary officially has recommended as a Coode Street Recommended Book).
We’d like to thank Ken for joining us in what proved to be an extremely interesting conversation. Next week: Canada! Till then, we hope you enjoy the episode.
Tomorrow is the publication date for my second fantasy anthology for Solaris, Fearsome Magics. It’s available from all good bookstores, online and offline, and features the following terrific stories:
Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
The Dun Letter, Christopher Rowe
Home is the Haunter (A Sir Hereward and Mr Fitz story), Garth Nix
Grigori’s Solution, Isobelle Carmody
Dream London Hospital, Tony Ballantyne
Safe House, K J Parker
Hey Presto!, Ellen Klages
The Changeling, James Bradley
Migration, Karin Tidbeck
On Skybolt Mountain, Justina Robson
Where Our Edges Lie, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Devil’s Bridge, Frances Hardinge
The Nursery Corner, Kaaron Warren
Aberration, Genevieve Valentine
Ice in the Bedroom, Robert Shearman
As I’ve come to appreciate , the most important time in a book’s life is the first month or so. If you like books like Fearsome Magics consider buying them soon after they’ve been published.
This week Gary and Jonathan, aware that the Festive Season and more are in front of us all, sit down with the most recent ‘Forthcoming Books’ issue of Locus and do their best to assemble a quick, on-the-fly list of books we’re looking forward to from October through to May next year. As Gary and Jonathan both say on the podcast, the list has been quickly assembled and certainly misses many worthwhile books. Still, it’s a start.Â
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Here’s the list. These are books we’ll be reading, discussing and possibly recommending in coming months.
October 2014
Bacigalupi, Paolo, The Doubt Factory, (Little, Brown, nvl-ya, hc)
Bear, Greg, War Dogs, (Orbit US, hc)
Carroll, Jonathan, Bathing the Lion, (St. Martin’s, hc)
Gibson, William, The Peripheral, (Penguin/Putnam, hc)
Leckie, Ann, Ancillary Sword, (Orbit US, tp)
Newman, Kim, The English Ghost Story, (Titan, tp)
Nix, Garth, Clariel, (Hot Key Books, nvl-ya, hc)
November 2014
Baxter, Stephen, Ultima, (Orion/Gollancz, hc)
Herbert, Frank, Frank Herbert: Collected Stories, (Tor, cln, hc)
Sherman, Delia, Young Woman in a Garden, (Small Beer Press, cln, tp)
Sure that we were on to something, we decided to follow up last week’s discussion of the State of British SF with Paul Kincaid and Nina Allan with a discussion about the State of Australian SF with editor/publisher Alisa Krasnostein of Twelfth Planet Press and bestselling Australian SF writer Sean Williams.
While there is always more that could be said about trends, particular publishers, or individual writers, a fairly-wide-reaching conversation did manage to cover a lot in a little over an hour. Â The podcast also includes some recommendations for books we think you should check out if you’re interested in current Australian SF.
As always, we would like to thank our guests Alisa and Sean for making the time to be on the podcast, and hope that you enjoy the episode. See you next week!
