Welcome to the first episode of the second season of The Coode Street Roundtable, a monthly podcast from Coode Street Productions where panellists James Bradley, Ian Mond, Gary K. Wolfe, and Jonathan Strahan, joined by occasional special guests, discuss a new or recently released science fiction or fantasy novel.
Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another TimelineThis month James, Ian, Gary and Jonathan discuss the latest book from Annalee Newitz. It’s described by publisher Tor Books as follows:
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend’s abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too.
2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she’s found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost.
Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline—a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline?
If you’re keen to avoid spoilers, we recommend reading the book before listening to the episode (serious spoilers start around the ten-minute mark).
If you don’t already have a copy, The Future of Another Timeline can be ordered from:
• North American booksellers
• UK booksellers
• amazon.com.au
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Jonathan mentioned:
Kelly Robson, Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach
Next month
The Coode Street Roundtable will return at the end of October with a discussion of Alix E. Harrow's The Ten Thousand Doors of January.
Episode 528: Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future
Episode 527: Ten Minutes with Madeleine E. Robins
Episode 526: Ten Minutes with Linda Nagata
Episode 525: Ten Minutes with Benjamin Rosenbaum
Episode 524: Ten Minutes with Delia Sherman
Episode 523: Ten Minutes with Mary Anne Mohanraj
Episode 522: Ten Minutes with Andrea Hairston
Episode 521: Ten Minutes with Lisa Goldstein
Episode 520: Ten Minutes with Jeannette Ng
Episode 519: Ten Minutes with Stephanie Feldman
Episode 518: Ten Minutes with Andrea Stewart
Episode 517: Ten Minutes with Jane Routley
Episode 516: Ten Minutes with Annalee Newitz
Episode 515: Ten Minutes with Ellen Kushner
Episode 514: Alix E. Harrow and The Once and Future Witches
Episode 513: Ten Minutes with Candas Jane Dorsey
Episode 512: Ten Minutes with Micaiah Johnson
Episode 511: Ten Minutes with Cecelia Holland
Episode 510: Ten Minutes with Chaz Brenchley
Episode 509: Ten Minutes with Lev Grossman (redux)
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