The Coode Street Podcast podcast artwork
Arts

The Coode Street Podcast

by Jonathan Strahan & Gary K. Wolfe

Chart positions today · United Kingdom

Not on the United Kingdom charts we track today.

If you like The Coode Street Podcast, try…

Latest episodes

  • Episode 732: Reading, genre and more

    October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    As we move into October and the end of the year begins to come into view, we sit down to talk about whether the SF ghetto still exists, especially after M. John Harrison’s The End of Everything has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize…

  • Episode 731: Cadwell Turnbull and a change of perspective

    September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    Coode Street picks up our recent conversation about short fiction with James Patrick Kelly and Michael Swanwick with Cadwell Turnbull, whose excellent short fiction collection All the Hidden Places is one of the highlights of the year and…

  • Episode 730: James Patrick Kelly, Michael Swanwick and The Book of Bots

    September 13, 2026 · 59 min

    This week’s episode is a wide-ranging discussion of robots and AI in fiction, and particularly in the work of our two distinguished guests: James Patrick Kelly, whose The Book of Bots is just out from Fairwood Press, and Michael Swanwick…

  • Episode 729: Garth Nix and Massif

    August 30, 2026 · 60 min

    It's been far too long since one of our favorite guests, Garth Nix, has visited us on Coode Street, but with the forthcoming publication of his adult science fiction novel, Massif, it’s a great opportunity to catch up with one of the…

  • Episode 728: Alix E. Harrow and The Slantwise Histories

    August 16, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    Time certainly flies. Although it has been nearly four years since we last chatted with Alix E. Harrow, she has quickly become one of our very favourite guests. This week we are delighted to welcome her back. Her novel The Everlasting is…

Show 7 more episodesShow fewer episodes
  • Episode 727: Ray Bradbury's Million Year Picnic (with Jeffrey Ford and Kelly Link)

    August 5, 2026 · 1 hr 16 min

    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 work. He had, he recalled, been 24 years…

  • Episode 726: Jonathan's busiest year ever

    July 26, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    In this week’s episode, we sort of turn the tables on Jonathan to discuss the art of assembling anthologies, and in particular no fewer than four books he has coming out over the next few months: Revolution in the Heart: Stories Inspired…

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

    July 12, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min

    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 The River has Roots has won Nebula and…

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

    June 16, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    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 rambling again. But we do begin with a small…

  • Episode 723: Molly Tanzer and the Nature of Art

    May 24, 2026 · 54 min

    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 post-apocalyptic post-United States…

  • Episode 722: Jeffrey Ford's Pandemonium Waltz

    May 3, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

    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 to short story writing, how he…

  • Episode 721: On Ballard, biography and books

    April 19, 2026 · 59 min

    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 finished and found particularly moving: The…

Full episode archive on Apple Podcasts →

About the show

Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.