Episode 449: Ten Minutes with Tobias S. Buckell

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

World Fantasy Award winner Tobias S. Buckell talks with Gary about life in a small town during the lockdown, the terrific South Korean TV series The Kingdom, the advantages of audiobooks and graphic novels, new stories coming up in Escape Pod ("The Machine That Would Rewild Humanity"), Slate ("Scar Tissue"), and Motherboard ("Zombie Capitalism"), and the problems of dealing with wild boar.

Books mentioned include:

• The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Aeneid by Vergil
• The Gentleman Bastard Series by Scott Lynch