Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
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Conversations with science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process
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An experiential prayer podcast hosted by author, musician and spiritual director Strahan Coleman based on his book 'Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God'. This podcast is a space to learn to gaze into God as he gazes into us and to express ourselves wholly to him. To read 'Beholding' and to discover more of Strahan's work on prayer visit www.commonerscommunion.com. Music and editing by Jonathan Class.
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A chat with noted Indigenous poet and artist John Brady McDonald about the new twentieth-anniversary hardcover edition of his acclaimed debut poetry collection, The Glass Lodge. Websiteartbyjohnmcdonald.weebly.com Facebook Shadowpaw Press link for The Glass LodgeThe Glass Lodge: 20th Anniversary Edition About The Glass Lodge John Brady McDonald, MB…
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A chat with poet Lynda Monahan about her new collection, The Door at the End of Everything, which features poems focused on those who struggle with mental health. Facebook@lynda.monahan.92 Lynda Monahan’s Amazon Page Amazon Links for The Door at the End of EverythingAmazon.caAmazon.com About The Door at the End of Everything Written while Lynda Mon…
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The Forever War, the debut novel from US writer Joe Haldeman, was first published by St Martins Press in 1974. It was shortlisted for the Locus Award, and was awarded the Hugo and Nebula Awards as Best SF Novel of the year. It went on to become recognised as an essential classic of the science fiction field, was listed as #1 in the Gollancz Science…
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A chat with editor Robert Runté, Ph.D., about the last two novels by the late, great Dave Duncan’s, The Traitor’s Son and Corridor to Nightmare, which he edited and which were just released by Shadowpaw Press. Websiteessentialedits.ca X@runte Facebook@dr.robert.runte Instagram@drrunte Dave Duncan’s Amazon Page Amazon Links for The Traitor’s SonAmaz…
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A chat with author Erna Buffie about the new edition of her critically acclaimed debut novel Let Us Be True, just released by Shadowpaw Press. Websiteernabuffie.com Facebook Amazon Links for Let Us Be TrueAmazon.caAmazon.com About the Book Finalist for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, 2016…
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A chat with author Shawn Amick about his upcoming high fantasy novel The Cruelty of Magic. Websiteshawnamick.com TikTok@shawnamickauthor Instagram@shawnamickauthor Threads@shawnamickauthor Facebook@shawn.amick.3 Shawn Amick’s Amazon Author Page Amazon Links for The Cruelty of MagicAmazon.caAmazon.com About the Book A warlord seeks the destruction o…
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A chat with critically acclaimed author Shaun Hamill about his new dark fantasy novel The Dissonance. Websiteshaunhamill.com X@shaunhamill Instagram@shaunhamill Goodreads Shaun Hamill’s Amazon Author Page Amazon Links for The DissonanceAmazon.caAmazon.com About the Book From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters (“I loved it” —Stephen Kin…
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With the Glasgow WorldCon just around the corner, Gary and Jonathan turn their attention to plans for the event. In addition to panel appearances, there'll be a special live recording of The Coode Street Podcast where we are joined by Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman, and John Scalzi to discuss 50th anniversary of the publication of The Forever War. Sinc…
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A chat with award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan about his new anthology from Tachyon, New Adventures in Space Opera. Websitejonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/ X@JonathanStrahan Bluesky@jonathanstrahan.bsky.social Facebook@jonathanstrahan Amazon Links for New Adventures in Space OperaAmazon.caAmazon.com About the Book Award-winning Australian science-fict…
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We're delighted to welcome a distinguished pair of guests, the legendary Michael Swanwick and writer and critic Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, whose book-length interview Being Michael Swanwick explores Michael’s entire career, and whose debut novel Equimedian has been described as a love letter to the SF of the '70s and '80s. As usual, we wander a bit, discu…
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A chat with Tobias S. Buckell and Dave Klecha about their new humorous collaborative fantasy novel, Runes of Engagement. WebsitesTobias S. BuckellDave Klecha Bluesky@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social@daveklecha.bsky.social Instagram@daveklecha Threads@daveklecha Tobias S. Buckell’s Amazon Page Amazon Links for Runes of EngagementAmazon.caAmazon.com About t…
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A chat with author Lynne Shaner about her debut fantasy novel, Journey to Everland Bay. Websitelynneshaner.com Facebook Threads@lynne.shaner Lynne Shaner’s Amazon Page Amazon Links for Journey to Everland BayAmazon.caAmazon.com About the Book A Heroine’s Journey for our times. Jemma Avalon, an unconventional mage-in-training, longs to return to Eve…
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For any listeners who have missed our longstanding tradition of almost unfettered rambling, we turn our attention this week to the questions of how and why certain novels and writers seem to hold up better than others, how younger readers can enjoy some older classics while completely tuning out others, and the difference between books that celebra…
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A chat with critically acclaimed award-winning British author Adrian Tchaikvosky about his latest science fiction novel, Service Model. Websiteadriantchaikovsky.com X@aptshadow Mastadon@aptshadow Threads@aptshadow Bluesky@aptshadow.bsky.social Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Amazon Page Amazon Links for Service ModelAmazon.caAmazon.com About the Book Murderbo…
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Multiple Aurealis, Ditmar, and Shirley Jackson award winner Kaaron Warren joins us for this week’s episode, along with old friend of Coode Street and fellow Locus reviewer Ian Mond, mostly to discuss Kaaron’s wonderful new novel The Underhistory, how it does or doesn’t align with traditional genre categories, and what such categories mean anyway. I…
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The distinguished Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Locus Award winner Paolo Bacigalupi joins us this week to talk about his forthcoming historical fantasy Navola, as well as the challenges of shifting from a focus on environmental SF to epic fantasy, the liberation that comes from being able to invent a world (and partly a language) that echoes Flo…
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We’re delighted to welcome to Coode Street Lev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians trilogy, to discuss his major new Arthurian novel The Bright Sword, which appears from Viking in July. We touch upon earlier versions of Arthurian fiction by T.H. White, John Steinbeck, Bernard Cornwell, Nicola Griffith, and others, the balance between hist…
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For this special short episode, Jonathan and Gary are joined by an old friend, Nebula and World Fantasy winner Ellen Klages, who recently gained an entirely new kind of recognition when she appeared on the long-running TV quiz show Jeopardy and recalled the “scary ham” story, which she first improvised at a Nebula ceremony ten years ago, when calle…
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This episode is a wide-ranging discussion with two important guests: the brilliant Vajra Chandrasekera, whose amazing first novel The Saint of Bright Doors is currently nominated for both Hugo and Nebula Awards, and whose even more adventurous Rakesfall will be published in June, and our old friend, the excellent critic, reviewer and fellow podcast…
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Gary and Jonathan are joined by Tobi Ogundiran, whose novella In the Shadow of the Fall is the first of the “Guardian of the Gods,” and whose first story collection Jackal, Jackal, was published to considerable acclaim last year. Winner of the Ignyte and nominee for the BSFA, and Shirley Jackson awards, Tobi discusses growing up in Nigeria reading …
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This week, we’re joined by the wonderful Nghi Vo, whose The Brides of High Hill is out this week. It’s the fifth of her ongoing “Singing Hills” sequence of novellas about the peripatetic Cleric Chih and their sharp-tongued companion hoopoe, Almost Brilliant. We discuss how Nghi has made use of different storytelling modes throughout the series, her…
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This week Jonathan and Gary start out with something resembling a topic: the proliferation of subgenres, movements, and marketing categories in SF and fantasy: from the evolution of space opera in SF to the rise of epic fantasy (and Ballantine’s earlier term “adult fantasy”), as well as consciously developed movements such as the New Wave, cyberpun…
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Once again with no guest to give us focus, Jonathan and Gary return to rambling mode, spurred on by the observation that voting for the 2024 Hugo Awards is now open. This leads to our ongoing discussion of what the Hugo Awards do and do not represent, why voting for your favorite works is important even if you haven’t read all the nominees, what ma…
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This week we are joined by the legendary author of The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle, who discusses his new novel I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons (published next month by Saga Press & Gollancz), as well as his storied career, his pals from childhood, influential writers such as Robert Nathan and Avram Davidson, and last year’s important retrospective…
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On the fiftieth anniversary of his groundbreaking anthology Wandering Stars: An Anthology of Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy, we’re joined by the terrific author and editor Jack Dann. During our conversation, we mention his new collection Islands of Time—published almost exactly 50 years after his first book— as well as his The Fiction Writer’s …
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This time out, Jonathan and Gary consider the meaning of "cozy" (or "cosy") SF and fantasy, and whether cozy horror is even a thing. We trace the term back to cozy mystery novels and Brian W. Aldiss’s characterization of certain British writers of the 1950s—especially John Wyndham—as "cozy catastrophes". Not surprisingly, this doesn’t lead to any m…
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Somewhat hesitantly, Jonathan and Gary return to the mics, sans guests, and somehow get into a discussion of various SFF listicles—partly because of Gary’s recent contribution to fivebooks.com of a list of five novels about science fiction. Why are such lists so appealing and so ubiquitous these days, and who are they for? By the time we're done, J…
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This week Nebula and World Fantasy award winner, Premee Mohamed, joins Gary and Jonathan from somewhere in the wilds of Canada to discuss writing, reading, building a career, and her fabulous new novella, The Butcher of the Forest. We also discuss the projects Premee has planned for the rest of the year, including forthcoming new novel The Siege of…
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For our second episode of 2024, we’re joined by the inimitable Kelly Link, whose forthcoming first novel The Book of Love is already receiving stellar advance reviews (including one from Gary in Locus). Kelly explains how the novel evolved, it connections to various genres from romance to supernatural horror, the importance of valuable encouragemen…
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All round good guy Scott Edelman was at the recent World Fantasy Convention, and took Gary and Jonathan out for lunch and a chat. That chat became the latest episode of Eating the Fantastic, Scott's terrific podcast. If you're interested, you can hear the episode here.由Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe
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