Episode 727: Ray Bradbury's Million Year Picnic (with Jeffrey Ford and Kelly Link)

Can you believe a storyteller? Ray Bradbury was a consummate storyteller who, in the introduction to his 1950 short story collection The Martian Chronicles, offered a possible origin story for the wor...

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Episode 725: Amal El-Mohtar and the Seasons of Glass and Iron

This week, Jonathan and Gary are joined by multiple award winning writer and critic Amal El-Mohtar, whose first story collection Seasons of Glass and Iron appeared earlier this year, and whose novella...

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Episode 724: On Jane Yolen, small presses, and more

Many podcasts far more professional than ours have offered discrete segments covering different topics, so this week we decided to carefully organize the episode—wait, no we didn’t; we’re just ramblin...

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Episode 723: Molly Tanzer and the Nature of Art

Jonathan and Gary are delighted to welcome the wonderful Molly Tanzer, whose new novella And Side by Side They Wander is just out this week. Although it involves apparently benign alien visitors, a po...

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This Is Not My Timeline - Reactor

A queer couple escapes persecution by buying a home in an almost identical dimension.

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Episode 722: Jeffrey Ford's Pandemonium Waltz

Jeffrey Ford's eight full length collection, Pandemonium Waltz, was published by Lethe Press back in February. Ever since we've been meaning to sit down with him to discuss the new book, his approach ...

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Coming soon … Model Actress Whatever

Here’s a taster for my new novel …

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Episode 721: On Ballard, biography and books

This week, Jonathan and Gary sit down and talk some new and forthcoming books, including our mutual choices for favorite book of the year so far. Gary starts by describing a book which he just finishe...

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Episode 720: Alexandra Pierce, Ian Mond, and The Totally Temporary Book Club

With Gary away at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Florida, and celebrating his 80th birthday (!!!!!), Jonathan sat down to chat with Alexandra Pierce and Ian Mond about wh...

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Episode 719: Ishiguro, Dinniman, and genre expectations in story

As usual, Jonathan and Gary raise a number of thorny questions about reading SF and fantasy, and resolve none of them. Beginning with Jonathan’s account of his recent reading of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never...

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Episode 718: Michael Swanwick and The Universe Box

Today Jonathan and Gary are joined by Nebula, World Fantasy,  and five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick to discuss the origins of some of his stories, the life and craft of the professional wri...

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Episode 717: Activism, reviewing, books to look forward to, and a little about the weather

As always, the Coode Street Motel Six bestrides continents, so after briefly comparing notes on the weather in Perth and Chicago, Gary and Jonathan get down to it and chat about the subjects of the mo...

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Extracurricular Activities - Reactor

A space opera adventure set in a distant future where an undercover agent has to go behind enemy lines to recover a lost ship and a possible traitor.

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Episode 716: Dystopias, cozy fiction and other dilemmas

There are snowstorms blowing where Gary is and Jonathan can see rain falling outside in Perth's midsummer, but the Motel Six has been safely relocated and the Gershwin Room is open once again. Convers...

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The Language of Liars

"Pitch-perfect science fiction about linguistics and consequences. This book destroyed me."—Yoon Ha Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Ninefox Gambi...

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Episode 715: The one we recorded in between recording the other ones

Jonathan and Gary kick off 2026 with no guests, but with the sort of wide-ranging ramble that some listeners seem to enjoy, and that others probably gave up on years ago. We talk about some books due ...

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Episode 714: The Year in Books with James Bradley, Ian Mond, and Alex Pierce

For our year-end discussion of 2025 books, we’re joined by Locus reviewers Ian Mond and Alex Pierce, and distinguished critic and novelist James Bradley. As usual, we mention a lot of authors and titl...

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Episode 713: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 25 - E. J. Swift

E.J. Swift's sixth novel, When There Are Wolves Again, is one of the standout science fiction novels of 2025. For the final instalment of the Coode Street Advent Calendar for 2025, Jonathan chats with...

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Episode 712: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 24 - Ursula Vernon

It's December 24, the final day of Advent, and Coode Street has just two more episodes to go before our holiday break. Today, Gary and Jonathan chat with Ursula Vernon about her writing alter-ego T.Ki...

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Episode 710: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 22 - James S.A. Corey

Today Jonathan and Gary spend some time talking to Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who write together as "James S.A. Corey", about what they've been reading, what they'd recommend, their seasonal readin...

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Episode 709: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 21 - Francis Spufford

As both the Advent Calendar and the year move slowly towards a close, Gary and Jonathan chat with Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill, Light Perpetual, and the wonderful Cahokia Jazz about what he...

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