Jonathan and Gary continue their irregular 2020 schedule with a conversation with Charles Coleman Finlay, who for more than five years has carried on the grand tradition of editing The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Sheree Renée Thomas, who picks up the mantle as new editor beginning with the March/April 2021 issue. We talk about the magazine’s distinguished history, the challenges of maintaining an iconic magazine in a radically changing short fiction field, and their own experiences as SF readers, writers, and editors.
Episode 537: Ten Minutes with Charlie Jane Anders
Ten minutes with… is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and book lovers from around the world talk about what they’re reading right now and what’s getting them through these difficult times.
Hugo and Nebula winner Charlie Jane Anders talks about some new books she’s been reading by Rebecca Roanhorse, Holly Black, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Darcy Little Badger, some past favourites including Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Katherine Dunne, and Ursula K. Le Guin, and her own forthcoming YA trilogy—as well as the differences between writing YA and adult fiction.
Books mentioned include:
- Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black
- Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Elatsoe by Darcy Little Badger
- Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963–1973 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
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Episode 536: Time for another list
After spending a few minutes chatting about what it’s like to live in a relatively safe but relatively sealed-off environment—something Jonathan can experience in Western Australia, but something SFF has occasionally touched upon—your intrepid hosts venture into the questions raised by Time magazine’s much-discussed list of “The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time,” with occasional reference to similar past lists in Michael Moorcock’s Fantasy: The 100 Best Books and Locus magazine’s All-Time Best Fantasy poll.
We discuss what’s useful about such lists, what’s silly about them, and who are they really for? Who do they include and who do they exclude, and are they really ever anything much more than something to chat about with friends? As usual, we arrive at some definitively non-definitive answers.
Episode 535: Ten Minutes with Rebecca Roanhorse
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 Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning writer Rebecca Roanhorse chats about living and working through lockdown in New Mexico, the appeal of epic fantasy, reading fantasy for pleasure and science non-fiction for work, her stunning new fantasy novel Black Sun, and her experiences working in the writers’ room for an unnamed new TV show.
Books mentioned include:
- Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
- Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
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Episode 534: Ten Minutes with Sheila Williams
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 Award-winning Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams talk about the early days of the pandemic in Manhattan, the challenges of finding time to read anything other than the 800 submissions per month she sees at the magazine, her good luck to have travelled to Ireland and the Canary Islands just before the lockdown began, her new anthology in the Twelve Tomorrows series from MIT Press, and, of course, what she’s been reading.
Books mentioned include:
- Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends edited by Sheila Williams
- The Wright Sister by Patty Dann
- Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renee Thomas
- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
- A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinsker
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