After another long hiatus, Jonathan and Gary return with a ramble saying farewell to 2018 (actually recorded when it was still 2018 in Chicago and already 2019 in Perth).
This time we look back on some of our favourite novels, novellas, collections, anthologies, and nonfiction from the past year, agreeing enthusiastically about Sam J. Miller’s Blackfish City, Kelly Robson’s Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, Gardner Dozois’s The Book of Magic, Alec Nevala-Lee’s Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (diverting into a side discussion of whether “golden ages” actually mean anything), and several other books and stories which one or both of us liked. We also name Blackfish City as our official Coode Street Book of Year!
Did we draw any insightful conclusions about the overall health of the field last year, or what the field seems to be becoming? Of course not, but we have our opinions, and we had some fun. And who knows? We should be back sooner than you'd think.
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Episode 660: Nalo Hopkinson and Blackheart Man
Episode 659: Joe Haldeman and The Forever War (Live in Glasgow)
Episode 658: A resumption of normal service
Episode 657: Being Alvaro and Michael
Episode 656: Stop us if you've heard this one before
Episode 655: Kaaron Warren and the Underhistory of things
Episode 654: Paolo Bacigalupi and the Road to Navola
Episode 653: Lev Grossman and The Bright Sword
Episode 652: Ellen Klages and the Ham in Jeopardy
Episode 651: Vajra Chandrasekera and The Saint of Bright Doors
Episode 650: Tobi Ogundiran and the Guardian of the Gods
Episode 649: Nghi Vo and The Brides of High Hill
Episode 648: Genre, marketing, and more
Episode 647: Oh no, not us again...
Episode 646: Peter S. Beagle and a Life Filled With Story
Episode 645: Jack Dann and Fifty Years of Wandering Stars
Episode 644: Cozy books and a prickly writer
Episode 643: All Time Top 5s
Episode 642: Premee Mohamed and The Butcher of the Forest
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