The Coode Street Podcast
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The Coode Street Podcast
Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.
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Episode 714: The Year in Books with James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Alex Pierce
For our year-end discussion of 2025 books, we’re joined by Locus reviewers Ian Mond and Alex Pierce, and distinguished critic and novelist James Bradl...
Episode 713: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 25 - E. J. Swift
E.J. Swift's sixth novel, When There Are Wolves Again, is one of the standout science fiction novels of 2025. For the final instalment of the Coode St...
Episode 712: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 24 - Ursula Vernon
It's December 24, the final day of Advent, and Coode Street has just two more episodes to go before our holiday break. Today, Gary and Jonathan chat w...
Episode 711: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 23 - Tochi Onyebuchi
World Fantasy and Ignyte winner Tochi Onyebuchi joins Gary for a brief but wide-ranging discussion that touches upon his genre-hopping 2025 novel Harm...
Episode 710: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 22 - James S.A. Corey
Today Jonathan and Gary spend some time talking to Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who write together as "James S.A. Corey", about what they've been rea...
Episode 709: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 21 - Francis Spufford
As both the Advent Calendar and the year move slowly towards a close, Gary and Jonathan chat with Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill, Light Perpe...
Episode 708: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 20 - Becky Chambers
For Day 20 of the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Gary and Jonathan talk to Hugo Award winning author of the Wayfarer series, Becky Chambers, about what...
Episode 707: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 19 - Natalia Theodoridou
Gary talks with World Fantasy and Nebula Award winning writer Natalia Theodoridou, whose Bluebeard-inspired Sour Cherry was one of this year’s outstan...
Episode 706: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 18 - Ray Nayler
With December and the Advent Calendar heading towards their conclusion, Gary and Jonathan chat with recently minted Hugo Award winner Ray Nayler about...
Episode 705: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 17 - Alastair Reynolds
It's Day 17 of our Advent Calendar and today Gary and Jonathan chat with Alastair Reynolds about the 25th Anniversary of Revelation Space, his new sho...
Episode 704: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 16 - Kim Stanley Robinson
It's been a minute since we last spoke to Kim Stanley Robinson on the podcast, back in 2020 when The Ministry for the Future was new in the world. So...
Episode 703: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 15 - Michael Swanwick
For the 15th day of our Advent Calendar Gary chats with Nebula and five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick about what he's been reading, how he c...
Episode 702: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 14 - Wole Talabi
For the 14th day of Advent, Jonathan is joined by Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated writer, Wole Talabi, to discuss the books he's been r...
Episode 701: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 13 - Theodora Goss
For Day 13 of the Advent Calendar, Gary chats with Theodora Goss all the way from Budapest. They talk about re-reading Patricia McKillip, other favori...
Episode 700: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 12 - Nnedi Okorafor
For this episode, Gary chats with the very busy and very talented Nnedi Okorafor, who has had quite a year with the publication of major new novel Dea...
Episode 699: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 11 - James Bradley
For Day 11 of our Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls up long-time friend of the podcast, acclaimed writer James Bradley, to discuss what he's been readin...
Episode 698: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 10 - Emily Tesh
As we approach the halfway mark of our Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls Emily Tesh, Hugo Award winning author of Some Desperate Glory and co-host of re...
Episode 697: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 9 - Paul McAuley
For Day 9 of the 2025 Advent Calendar, Jonathan and Gary called Paul McAuley to discuss the books he's been reading and would recommend, holiday tradi...
Episode 696: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 8 - Isabel J. Kim
With our provider struggling a little following the various Cloudflare issues of late, Gary and Jonathan call up Nebula and BSFA Award winner Isabel J...
Episode 695: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 7 - Aliya Whitely
Today Jonathan sits down with British SF Award winner and Arthur C. Clarke Award, BFA, and Tiptree Award nominee Aliya Whiteley to talk about what she...
Episode 694: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 6 - Nancy Kress
Day 6 of the 2025 Coode Street Advent Calendar sees Gary and Jonathan taking a moment to catch up Hugo and Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress about what...
Episode 693: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 5 - Adrian Tchaikovsky
As we move towards the end of the first week of our 2025 Advent Calendar, Gary and Jonathan take a moment to sit down with Adrian Tchaikovsky to talk...
Episode 692: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 4 - Martha Wells
The end of the year is fast approaching, we're behind on episodes and we're keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we're going back to some...
Episode 691: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 3 - China Mieville
The end of the year is fast approaching, we're behind on episodes and we're keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we're going back to some...
Episode 690: Kij Johnson on Gaming, Storytelling and the Nature of Farce
In amongst the hurly burly of the end of the year and putting together the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Gary and Jonathan found time to sit down with...
Episode 689: The Coode Street Advent Calendar - Arkady Martine
The end of the year is fast approaching, we're behind on episodes and we're keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we're going back to some...
Episode 688: The Coode Street Advent Calendar - Nina Allan
The end of the year is fast approaching, we're behind on episodes and we're keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we're going back to some...
Episode 687: Jetlagged and tired, we ramble
The World Fantasy Convention was held in Brighton, England two weeks ago. Gary and Jonathan both attended, so we shouldn't be surprised that they were...
Episode 686: Kemi Ashing-Giwa and The King Must Die
Our guest this week is the remarkable Kemi Ashing-Giwa, whose new novel The King Must Die is out in November. We talk about science fantasy—or whether...
Episode 686: Ken Liu, Technothrillers and AI Dreaming
This week we have a lively conversation with the remarkable Ken Liu, whose new thriller All That We See or Seem introduces a new protagonist, the gift...
Episode 685: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and the Anthropic AI case
In a rare shorter episode, we chat about the late and much missed Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, with whom Jonathan and Gary had strangely similar encounters s...
Episode 684: On stories, awards, and reading
With Gary recently returned from Worldcon in Seattle, we chat a bit about the Hugos (mostly avoiding second-guessing the results), which leads to some...
Episode 683: China Mieville and 25 Years of Bas Lag
Twenty five years ago China Mieville's second novel, Perdido Street Station, introduced the world to the fantastical city of Bas Lag. It went on to wi...
Episode 682: Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz
In this week’s episode, we’re joined by two of our most exciting writers, each of whom has a new book out in August. Charlie Jane Anders’ Lessons in M...
Episode 681: Silvia Moreno-Garcia and The Bewitching
We're almost embarrassed to admit it, but it’s been ten years since we last chatted with Silvia Moreno-Garcia, shortly after her first novel Signal to...
Episode 680: Talking science fiction
Even though we know that some past episodes have probably spent too much time talking about awards, our latest chat begins with some thoughts on—well,...
Episode 679: Guy Gavriel Kay and Written on the Dark
This week we are joined by an old friend of the podcast, the distinguished Canadian novelist Guy Gavriel Kay, whose wonderful new novel Written on the...
Episode 678: Nearly 15 years of rambling...
This week it’s just Jonathan and Gary again, in what some listeners might view as an either a classic ramble or a series of rabbit holes from which we...
Episode 677: Silvia Park and Luminous
This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by Silvia Park to discuss her exciting debut novel, Luminous, which started life as a children's novel and conn...
Episode 676: Jacob Weisman and 30 Years of Tachyon
In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Tachyon Publications, we invited publisher Jacob Weisman to join us in a fascinating exploration of the...