Episode 387: Ten Minutes with Fran Wilde

Ten minutes with... sees Coode Street presenters Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe talk to readers and book lovers from around the world about what they're reading and what's getting them through this strange time.

Today Gary talks to Fran Wilde, fresh off her nominations for a Hugo Award for her story "A Catalog of Storms" and a Lodestar Award for her novel Riverland. We talk a little about Riverland, what’s she’s currently reading (or re-reading, in some cases for her MFA classes at Western Colorado University), the value of poetry in times of stress, and her own forthcoming work.

Books mentioned include:

• Riverland by Fran Wilde
• Machina (Season 1) and Ninth Step Station (Season 2) by Fran Wilde & others
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
• Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee
• The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
• Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp
• Goldilocks by Lara Lam
• Agency by William Gibson
• Network Effect by Martha Wells 
• Anthropocene Rag by Alex Irvine
• Deeplight by Frances Hardinge
• Sal & Gabi Fix the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
• The Sin in the Steel by Ryan Van Loan
• Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton
• The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck