In a return to classic rambling form, Jonathan and Gary begin thinking about the waning months of the year, and the inevitable recommended reading discussions.
Jonathan starts off by asking why we always seem to say it was a surprisingly good year for collections, when just about every year is a good year for collections. We also touch upon anthologies, such as Jared Shunn’s massive The Big Book of Cyberpunk, and what implicit arguments are being made by such broadly inclusive anthologies.
We also touch upon Jonathan’s brand-new The Book of Witches, the question of whether SFF is starting to mature enough that broadly diverse voices are viewed as simply part of the mainstream of the field, and some of the books we’ve been reading or anticipating, including Elizabeth Hand’s A Haunting on the Hill and Aliz E. Harrow’s Starling House (both will be guests on a future podcast), Tobias S. Buckell’s A Stranger in the Citadel, Nicola Griffith’s Menewood (and how historical fiction relates to SFF),The Best of Michael Swanwick, and Christopher Barzak’s Monstrous Alterations.
Episode 630: Kij Johnson and the Nature of Story
Episode 629: Ursula Vernon and A Story with Good Bones
Episode 628: Sarah Pinsker and Lost Places
Episode 627:Kelly Link for the love of a good book
Episode 626: Awards season, British criticism and more
Episode 625: Kelly Barnhill and the Mind of a Writer
Coode Street 624: On short fiction
Episode 623: The 2022 Locus Recommended Reading List
Episode 622: More about space opera
Episode 621: Coode Street’s Books for Look Forward to in 2023
Episode 620: A Very Coode Street Advent Bonus: M. Rickert
Episode 619: And Happy Holidays to all!
Episode 618: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Elizabeth Hand
Episode 617: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: N K Jemisin
Episode 616: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Tochi Onyebuchi
Episode 615: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Nghi Vo
Episode 614: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: John Clute
Episode 613: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Naseem Jamnia
Episode 612: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: John Kessel
Episode 611: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Neon Yang
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