Episode 733: Wole Talabi, The Fist of Memory and the Importance of Connectedness
This week, with Gary in Oakland for the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, we’re delighted to welcome Wole Talabi back to Coode Street to discus...
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20 of 739 episodesEpisode 732: Reading, genre and more
As we move into October and the end of the year begins to come into view, we sit down to talk about whether the SF ghetto still exists, espe...
Episode 732: Reading, genre and more (reissue)
As we move into October and the end of the year begins to come into view, we sit down to talk about whether the SF ghetto still exists, espe...
Episode 731: Cadwell Turnbull and a change of perspective
Coode Street picks up our recent conversation about short fiction with James Patrick Kelly and Michael Swanwick with Cadwell Turnbull, whose...
Episode 730: James Patrick Kelly, Michael Swanwick and The Book of Bots
This week’s episode is a wide-ranging discussion of robots and AI in fiction, and particularly in the work of our two distinguished guests:...
Episode 729: Garth Nix and Massif
It's been far too long since one of our favorite guests, Garth Nix, has visited us on Coode Street, but with the forthcoming publication of...
Episode 728: Alix E. Harrow and The Slantwise Histories
Time certainly flies. Although it has been nearly four years since we last chatted with Alix E. Harrow, she has quickly become one of our ve...
Episode 727: Ray Bradbury's Million Year Picnic (with Jeffrey Ford and Kelly Link)
Can you believe a storyteller? Ray Bradbury was a consummate storyteller who, in the introduction to his 1950 short story collection The Mar...
Episode 726: Jonathan's busiest year ever
In this week’s episode, we sort of turn the tables on Jonathan to discuss the art of assembling anthologies, and in particular no fewer than...
Episode 725: Amal El-Mohtar and the Seasons of Glass and Iron
This week, Jonathan and Gary are joined by multiple award winning writer and critic Amal El-Mohtar, whose first story collection Seasons of...
Episode 724: On Jane Yolen, small presses, and more
Many podcasts far more professional than ours have offered discrete segments covering different topics, so this week we decided to carefully...
Episode 723: Molly Tanzer and the Nature of Art
Jonathan and Gary are delighted to welcome the wonderful Molly Tanzer, whose new novella And Side by Side They Wander is just out this week....
Episode 722: Jeffrey Ford's Pandemonium Waltz
Jeffrey Ford's eight full length collection, Pandemonium Waltz, was published by Lethe Press back in February. Ever since we've been meaning...
Episode 721: On Ballard, biography and books
This week, Jonathan and Gary sit down and talk some new and forthcoming books, including our mutual choices for favorite book of the year so...
Episode 720: Alexandra Pierce, Ian Mond, and The Totally Temporary Book Club
With Gary away at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Florida, and celebrating his 80th birthday (!!!!!), Jonathan...
Episode 719: Ishiguro, Dinniman, and genre expectations in story
As usual, Jonathan and Gary raise a number of thorny questions about reading SF and fantasy, and resolve none of them. Beginning with Jonath...
Episode 718: Michael Swanwick and The Universe Box
Today Jonathan and Gary are joined by Nebula, World Fantasy, and five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick to discuss the origins of some...
Episode 717: Activism, reviewing, books to look forward to, and a little about the weather
As always, the Coode Street Motel Six bestrides continents, so after briefly comparing notes on the weather in Perth and Chicago, Gary and J...
Episode 716: Dystopias, cozy fiction and other dilemmas
There are snowstorms blowing where Gary is and Jonathan can see rain falling outside in Perth's midsummer, but the Motel Six has been safely...
Episode 715: The one we recorded in between recording the other ones
Jonathan and Gary kick off 2026 with no guests, but with the sort of wide-ranging ramble that some listeners seem to enjoy, and that others...