2023, Podcasts

Episode 628: Sarah Pinsker and Lost Places

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lostplaces.jpegReturning after a brief hiatus, Coode Street welcomes the wonderful multiple award-winning Sarah Pinsker, whose new collection Lost Places has just been published by Small Beer Press, and includes the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning “Where Oaken Hearts do Gather.”

We touch upon her career as both story writer and novelist, the relationship of her music performances to her fiction, the balance between teaching and writing, the challenges for new authors entering the field, and of course the stories in her new book.

2023, Podcasts

Episode 627: Kelly Link for the love of a good book

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This week, Jonathan and Gary talk with Kelly Link, whose new collection White Cat, Black Dog is already showing up on bestseller lists. It’s her first themed collection, with each of the seven stories linked to a particular fairy tale.

We also touch upon several writers whose work has been important to Kelly, including Joanna Russ, Peter Straub, M.R, James, Fritz Leiber, Nicola Griffith, and Shirley Jackson, and even chat a bit about being an author who’s also a publisher (with Small Beer Press) and bookseller (with Book Moon), both co-owned and managed with Gavin J. Grant.

We also discuss a few other things, including her highly anticipated forthcoming novel, The Book of Love.

2023, Podcasts

Episode 626: Awards season, British criticism and more

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It’s awards season again (or maybe still), so Jonathan and Gary take a moment to remind everyone of the deadlines for nominating candidates for Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards, and to discuss briefly a proposal to add a one-time category of “Best Fantasy Novel” to the Hugos at the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon.

They also chat a bit about the Best Related Work Hugo, and whether or not certain categories might be eliminated. First, however, they touch upon whether the central concerns of mainstream SF were laid down in the interwar era, as Paul Kincaid argues in a new essay. And then Niall Harrison’s new collection, All These Worlds: Reviews and Essays.  Finally, we touch upon the question of how important opening paragraphs and titles are when it comes to drawing a reader into a work of fiction.

2023, Podcasts

Episode 625: Kelly Barnhill and the Mind of a Writer

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cranehusband.jpegThis week Jonathan and Gary are joined by World Fantasy and Newbery Award winner Kelly Barnhill, whose When Women Were Dragons was one of last year’s outstanding fantasy novels. We talk about her just-published The Crane Husband, which powerfully combines aspects of the classic fairy tale, science fiction, horror, and coming-of-age tale. We touch upon mixing genres, writing while raising a family, making up disposable fairytales, how stories involve both the forebrain and the hindbrain, and reading Terry Pratchett.

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Awards eligibility – 2022

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2022 was a year when I edited two original anthologies, five novellas published by Tordocom, eight of Tor.com’s short stories, and acted as reviews editor for Locus for the 20th consecutive year.

As a podcaster, we managed a total of 50 episodes, including the Coode Street Advent Calendar, which was fun.

Fiction edited in 2022

Anthologies

Novellas

Novelette

  • After the Storm, James Bradley (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds, Indrapramit Das (Tor.com)
  • Victory Citrus Is Sweet, Thoraiya Dyer (Tor.com)
  • When the Tide Rises, Sarah Gailey (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Once Upon a Future in the West, Daryl Gregory (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • The Place of all the Souls, Margo Lanagan (Someone in Time)
  • The Chronologist, Ian R. MacLeod (Tor.com)
  • Burning Books for Pleasure and Profit, K.J. Parker (Tor.com)
  • Do You Hear the Fungi Sing?, Chen Quifan (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • I Give You the Moon, Justina Robson (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Seven Vampires: A Judge Dee Mystery, Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com)
  • Judge Dee and the Mystery of the Missing Manuscript, Lavie Tidhar (Tor.com)
  • The Difference Between Love and Time, Catherynne M. Valente (Someone in Time)

Short story

  • D.I.Y, John Wiswell (Tor.com)
  • The Lichens, Nina Allan (Someone in Time)
  • The Past Life Reconstruction Service, Zen Cho (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Romance Historical, Rowan Coleman (Someone in Time)
  • Crisis Actors, Greg Egan (Someone in Time)
  • Drone Pirates of Silicon Valley, Meg Ellison (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • The Golden Hour, Jeffrey Ford (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • I Remember Satellites, Sarah Gailey (Someone in Time)
  • A Letter to Merlin, Theodora Goss (Someone in Time)
  • Roadside Attraction, Alix E. Harrow (Someone in Time)
  • The Ferryman, Saad Z. Hossain (Someone in Time)
  • Bergamot and Vetiver, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • First Aid, Seanan McGuire (Someone in Time)
  • Unbashed, or: Jackson, Whose Cowardice Tore a Hole in the Chronoverse, Sam Miller (Someone in Time)
  • Choke, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Someone in Time)
  • Legion, Malka Older (Tor.com)
  • Timed Obsolescence, Sameem Sadiqui (Tomorrow’s Parties)
  • Down and Out in Exile Park, Tade Thompson (Someone in Time)
  • Dead Poets, Carrie Vaughn Carrie Vaughn (Someone in Time)

Editor, Short-Form (Hugos)/Professional Achievement (WFA)

Best Fancast/Podcast

I hope you’ll consider supporting the talented people that I’ve worked with during the year.

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