The Coode Street Podcast

With the Galactic Suburbanites celebrating their birthday just a couple of days ago, Gary and I once again jumped into the pod to record episode 42 (well, 45 if you include the non-series eps) where we discuss George R.R. Martin's Dance, the Kindle, the iPad, thrillers vs. science fiction, self-publishing, ICFA, and throw in a bit of digital waffle.  This is the last podcast before Gary heads off for his 65th birthday (!), so we hope you enjoy it. We'll see you next week!

Amongst audio chaos and another mumble about the weather, Gary and I jumped into the Pod to discuss the recently released Clarke and Stoker ballots, Shaun Tan's Oscar win, community and other bits and pieces. We hope you enjoy this rather rambling instalment...

On 21 August 2010 Gary and I recorded and published Episode 16 of the podcast. There have been historic problems with the upload and so, in attempt to fix this, I'm republishing it here at the new host. I do apologise for any duplication people might experience by my doing so.  We will be recording the new podcast shortly and it will be up in the next day or so. Here is what what we said of Episode 16 all those months ago: "Although we’re having a Federal election here in Australia, and I had to get out and fulfil my democratic obligations, I still found time to jump on to Skype and call Gary to talk about things science-fictional.  We covered reviewing, the end of “books you don’t need to read’, The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, our awesome technical skills as podcasters, the Coode Street Feminist Advisory Committee (we may need t-shirts), and all sorts of other things in another longish podcast.  We have also accepted we could talk forever – I think we chatted for more than an hour that we didn’t r

It was a bright and sunny morning - the annual excoriation of the masses here in Perth, and a particularly vicious one - so Gary and I fired up Skype and had a long chat about the Nebula Awards, how e-readers are impacting on the management of the reviewing cycle, the work of Peter S. Beagle and some other stuff. As always, we hope you enjoy it!

And it's another weekend. This morning Garth Nix, bestselling author of the 'Keys to the Kingdom' and 'Old Kingdom' series, among many wonderful novels, joined Gary and I in the pod to discuss what 'young adult' means, the current troubles with bookselling and book publishing, ebooks, his forthcoming novels Troubletwisters (with Sean Williams) and A Confusion of Princes and lots more stuff in a special 'Pink Drinks' edition of The Coode Street Podcast.  Enjoy!

That’s better! Technical difficulties behind us, Gary and a slightly hungover I jumped into the pod to discuss Carol Emshwiller, the right time to publish a book, optimistic SF, the death of SF and all sorts of other stuff. We hope you enjoy it, as always!

Welcome to the new backup location and possible new home for the podcast that Gary K. Wolfe and I record every week. This is Episode 36.

Live from the Locus/Twelfth Planet Press in the World Fantasy Convention 2010 dealer's room, Gary and I chat with Alisa, Karen and Francesca about World Fantasy, women at conventions, and all sorts of other stuff. We ramble. The sound quality may be affected by the venue, along with random background announcements, but we hope you like it!

Gary Wolfe checks in from Readercon in Burlingham MA and brings guests Elizabeth Hand and Peter Straub to the table. This time we discuss: the art of the novella why Readercon is worth attending outsider art, Henry Darger, crypto-aviation, and all sorts of other neat stuff. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Author, critic, photographer, and Locus editor Amelia Beamer joins Gary and I for a new podcast as our first ever guest. Amelia was only just home from Locus HQ in Oakland, Gary was taking some time out from reading for his column in Chicago, and I was still pottering around after breakfast while the kids are off at swimming lessons in Perth. I once again showed my lack of technical skills in the audio arena, but we discussed: being a first-time novelist, writing and The Loving Dead; Kim Stanley Robinson's astounding new short story; and the SF Signal Mind Meld on short story collections you have to have and whether there's a language we can use to discuss the history of the SF field that's inclusive, There's probably some other stuff, but we recorded this morning and I'm not going to re-listen to the whole thing. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Every Saturday morning now Gary and I fire up Skype to record the latest in our series of chats. Gary's usually not that long home from his office in Chicago, while I'm mostly still pottering around after breakfast while the kids are off at swimming lessons. We did it again yesterday morning, and we once again reveal our collective lack of technical skills in the audio arena and briefly mention: getting contributor's copies, re-editing classic books, ebook design and the iPad, books I'd like to see exist that don't, The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson and how humanists wrote short fiction, entry-level SF novels and anthologies, year's bests, the lack of SF for children, and spend some time discussing Nnedi Okorafor and her novel Who Fears Death. There's probably some other stuff, but we recorded this yesterday and I'm not going to re-listen to the whole thing. We hope you enjoy it as always and will see you next weekend!

Gary calls in from Florida and we talk about all sorts of stuff in our latest chatfest.

On May 30, 2010 Episode 4 of the Coode Street Podcast was first published. At the time, it was described like this: And we do it again! Our fourth ramble, this time touching on all sorts of things, many of which we’ve touched on before! A recent check of the website showed that there was a problem with the original file and that only a small portion of the podcast had been available since we moved host. We are now re-releasing the full text of the original episode for your listening pleasure.  It shows pretty clearly how much extra polish goes into more recent episodes.

The third episode in our new (but still continuing!) series of conversations is now live. There are still a few audio hitches that I’m trying to iron out, but all in all, it’s ok. I did the stereo thing again – it seems to be a default setting – so I’ll work harder on getting you a good old fashioned mono recording next weekend. This time we discuss reviewing, books, and all sorts of other stuff. I did promise to mention any specific titles, but today’s chat is pretty general so there’s nothing specific to mention. Except, oops, The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction, we do discuss that a bit. More next week!

In the second of our regular series of weekly podcasts Gary Wolfe and I discuss canon formation, Joanna Russ, and all sorts of other stuff. It’s kinda long. I accidentally messed up the first take so this actually is a complete re-recording. We hope you like it. Right now we plan to do this pretty much every week. Comments are welcome!