We're on a roll! Two episodes in two weeks. Surely it can't last! Gary has been reading Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel The Testaments and it's sparked off all sorts of thoughts on that old chestnut: science fiction vs. literary fiction. What are literary writers doing when they write SF? Can SF writers cross-over to the mainstream? Is this purely a generational perspective and does it just not matter any more? All these questions are at least touched on, if not settled (they're not settled), as well as mentions of Lethem, Le Guin, Chabon and others, and a brief discussion of robots and AI in SF. They even discuss some very interesting comments on the Atwood novel by Nina Allan over on her blog.
All in all, a typical rambly shambles. As always, we hope you enjoy!
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Episode 289: Baseball, Bob and more
Episode 288: Kai Ashante Wilson and A Taste of Honey
Episode 287: The Series Hugo and more
Episode 286: Eugene Fischer and Jo Walton
Episode 285: Connie Willis and Crosstalk
Episode 284: Alastair Reynolds, Revenger and the Far, Far Future
Episode 283: Kelly Robson and the Waters of Versailles
Coode Street Roundtable 7: Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station
Episode 282: Michael Swanwick, Kij Johnson and the Craft of Short Fiction
Episode 281: Liza Trombi, books we're looking forward to, and more
Episode 280: The Project of SF
Coode Street Roundtable 6: Madeline Ashby's Company Town
Episode 279: Tom Reamy, posterity and the death of the midlist
Episode 278: Life achievement and such
Coode Street Roundtable 5: Guy Gavriel Kay’s Children of Earth and Sky
Episode 277: Books we're looking forward to...
Episode 218: Harlan Ellison, Bill Schafer and the Volcano
Episode 276: Storms, outages and awards
Episode 275: Jack Dann and PS Australia
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