Welcome to episode 19 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This time out, Jonathan and Gary return, sans guests or much of a plan. They do manage to touch upon a number of significant issues, such as the work of newly minted World Fantasy Life Achievement winner Howard Waldrop, whether Waldrop could be viewed as a regional author (a Texan in particular), and which other writers might be thought of a representing particular regional voices (R.A. Lafferty, Andy Duncan, Christopher Rowe, Daryl Gregory?), and how regional voice may show up even in the work of hard SF writers like Gregory Benford. This leads into a more general discussion of influences. Are films based on Philip K. Dick now more influential than Dick’s novels themselves? How are innovative writers like Greg Egan (who just turned 60) and Ted Chiang seen as influential?
This leads, somehow, into a discussions of how writers like Dick, Lovecraft, Le Guin, Octavia Butler made it into the Library of America, and finally to the importance of international and regional anthologies such as Oghenchovwe Donald Ekpeki’s new Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction. As always, we also touch upon what we’re reading this week.
Episode 362: The Year in Review 2019
Episode 361: Jack Zipes at WFC 2019
Episode 360: Margo Lanagan, Ellen Klages and Eileen Gunn at WFC 2019
Episode 359: That Old Literary Divide
Episode 358: Science fiction, open borders, and porous boundaries
Episode 357: Library of America and the year's end...
Coode Street Roundtable 2.1: Annalee Newitz’s The Future of Another Timeline
Episode 356: Space opera, WorldCon, Campbell, and other unicorns
Episode 355: A short one
Episode 354: Influence, impact, the sense of wonder, and other critical missions
Episode 353: New projects and old books
Episode 352: A Surplus of Us
Episode 351: A Quick One
Episode 350: Hey, well how about that?
Episode 349: Sarah Pinsker on the road
Episode 348: Nebulas, Hugos, ereading and more
Episode 347: Charlie Jane Anders and The City in the Middle of the Night
Episode 346: Neil Clarke and the State of Short Fiction in 2018
Episode 345: Liza Trombi, Locus, and the Year in Review
Episode 344: Time, Cities and Moving to the Poles
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