The Coode Street Podcast

Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.

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Update frequency: every 9 days
Average duration: 50 minutes
Episodes: 689
Years Active: 2010 - 2025

Episode 282: Michael Swanwick, Kij Johnson and the Craft of Short Fiction

Over the past several years we've been fortunate to record episodes of the Coode Street Podcast in front of a live audience. One of the highlights of MidAmericon 2, the 74th World Science Fiction Co…

00:54:00 | Thu 25 Aug 2016

Episode 281: Liza Trombi, books we're looking forward to, and more

This week, in a quick episode recorded between hiatuses, we are joined by Locus Editor-in Chief Liza Groen Trombi to discuss the upcoming WorldCon, how Locus approaches covering the event, and books …

01:01:16 | Wed 03 Aug 2016

Episode 280: The Project of SF

After our longest hiatus so far, Jonathan is back from Italy and Gary is back from Readercon, and we ramble on about such questions as whether modern SF can be characterized as optimistic or pessimis…

01:00:28 | Sun 24 Jul 2016

Coode Street Roundtable 6: Madeline Ashby's Company Town

Welcome to the sixth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by…

00:54:09 | Sun 26 Jun 2016

Episode 279: Tom Reamy, posterity and the death of the midlist

Before Coode Street goes on hiatus for a few weeks when each of us travel to various exotic realms, we address a question which Jonathan raised about new editions of work by Clifford Simak and Tom Re…

01:02:12 | Sun 19 Jun 2016

Episode 278: Life achievement and such

This weekend Gary and Jonathan found time amongst their growing commitments to grab an hour or so and sit down over a microphone and discuss the World Fantasy Awards life achievement award, its rules…

01:04:54 | Mon 13 Jun 2016

Coode Street Roundtable 5: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Children of Earth and Sky

Welcome to the fifth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by…

01:01:59 | Sat 04 Jun 2016

Episode 277: Books we're looking forward to...

We nearly did it. We nearly stayed on topic…
This week, we reminisce briefly about six years of the Coode Street Podcast (an anniversary we overlooked a few weeks ago), and then segue, after a few…

01:22:16 | Sun 29 May 2016

Episode 218: Harlan Ellison, Bill Schafer and the Volcano

We don't often do this, but in recognition of Harlan Ellison's 82nd birthday we thought we'd republish the episode from 2015 where Gary and Bill Shafer talked to Harlan about The Top of the Volcano: …

01:15:51 | Sat 28 May 2016

Episode 276: Storms, outages and awards

Winter is coming. Well, in Perth. An early storm huffed and puffed and knocked the power out part way through a ramble on awards and longevity (or something). We persevered. The power came back up an…

00:55:01 | Sun 22 May 2016

Episode 275: Jack Dann and PS Australia

This week writer, editor and now publisher Jack Dann, a long-time friend of the podcast, joins Jonathan and Gary to discuss his role in launching new small press publishing imprint PS Australia and …

01:01:09 | Sat 07 May 2016

Coode Street Roundtable 4: Paul McAuley's Into Everywhere

Welcome to the fourth episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined b…

01:04:54 | Sun 01 May 2016

Episode 274: A step to the left...

As we head into our third straight week without a guest on the podcast, we confront our lack of organisation with a smile and a nod. We actually sat down and planned what we'd discuss on this episode…

01:04:49 | Mon 25 Apr 2016

Episode 273: Here we go again

This week’s ramble touches upon a bunch of issues, from Hugo nominations and awards (of course) to what it takes to be called a major science fiction writer, the need for more translations of non-Eng…

01:08:27 | Mon 18 Apr 2016

Episode 272: Awards, anthologies and all the usual stuff

Following last week's announcement of DragonCon's new Dragon Awards, we once again return to the topic of awards proliferation; begin our discussion of Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's massive new Big Book …

01:05:49 | Sun 10 Apr 2016

Episode 271: Lavie Tidhar and pushing at boundaries

This week we are delighted to be joined by Lavie Tidhar, whose Jerwood Fiction Underwood Prize Award winning novel A Man Lies Dreaming has just appeared in the U.S., and whose fix-up science fiction …

01:21:05 | Sun 03 Apr 2016

Coode Street Roundtable 3: Patricia A. McKillip's Kingfisher

Welcome to the third episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by…

01:26:45 | Sun 27 Mar 2016

Episode 270: Spinoffs, copyright, awards and such

On our 270th episode, we immediately distracted ourselves from our planned topic of catching up on news, awards nominations, etc., and instead rambled on about various matters of literary influence, …

01:04:11 | Sat 05 Mar 2016

Coode Street Roundtable 2: Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky

Welcome to the second episode of The Coode Street Roundtable. The Roundtable is a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panelists James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Jonathan Strahan, joined b…

01:04:19 | Sat 27 Feb 2016

Episode 269: Creating the Fantasy Canon

Last year, at the World Fantasy Convention held in Saratoga Springs, a panel was presented on 'Creating the Fantasy Canon'. The panel description was:
There are some books we all agree on as fundame…

00:52:24 | Fri 26 Feb 2016

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