{"id":6514,"date":"2021-08-08T11:47:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T03:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=6514"},"modified":"2021-08-08T11:59:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T03:59:50","slug":"episode-560-arkady-martine-and-memories-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2021\/08\/08\/episode-560-arkady-martine-and-memories-of-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 560: Arkady Martine and Memories of Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=uyjn3-10ac2b3-pb&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;btn-skin=4&#038;multiple_size=315&#038;square_size=300&#038;order=episodic&#038;filter=all&#038;limit=10&#038;season=all&#038;tag=all\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/arkady-martine\/a-desolation-called-peace\/9781529001624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/iwu5px\/desolationcalledpeace.jpeg\" alt=\"A Desolation Called Peace\" width=\"150\" height=\"231\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/><\/a>Welcome to episode 18 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkadymartine.net\/\">Arkady Martine<\/a>, author of the Hugo-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/arkady-martine\/a-memory-called-empire\/9781529001594\"><em>A Memory Called Empire<\/em><\/a> and its equally remarkable sequel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/arkady-martine\/a-desolation-called-peace\/9781529001624\">A <em>Desolation<\/em> Called Peace<\/a>. We touch upon how her research as an academic historian helped shape her fiction, the various meanings of empire (and the comparative virtues of SF and fantasy in dealing with such concepts), growing up with a houseful of SF classics from Asimov to Zelazny, and her own current work\u2014including the possibility of more stories set in the Teixcalaanli universe and a likely venture into near-future SF.<\/p>\n<p>As always, our thanks to Arkady for making the time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to episode 18 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the wonderful Arkady Martine, author of the Hugo-winning A Memory Called Empire and its equally remarkable sequel A Desolation Called Peace. We touch upon how her research as an academic historian helped shape her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2021\/08\/08\/episode-560-arkady-martine-and-memories-of-empire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 560: Arkady Martine and Memories of Empire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episodes-of-the-coode-street-podcast-for-2021","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6515,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6514\/revisions\/6515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}