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!
Episode 274: A step to the left...
Episode 273: Here we go again
Episode 272: Awards, anthologies and all the usual stuff
Episode 271: Lavie Tidhar and pushing at boundaries
Coode Street Roundtable 3: Patricia A. McKillip's Kingfisher
Episode 270: Spinoffs, copyright, awards and such
Coode Street Roundtable 2: Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky
Episode 269: Creating the Fantasy Canon
Episode 268: Peter Straub and Interior Darkness
Episode 267: Neil Clarke and Short Fiction
Episode 266: Prolificity and Academia
Coode Street Roundtable 1: Adam Roberts' The Thing Itself
Episode 265: David Hartwell and the beginning of 2016
Episode 264: Glen Cook and Steven Erikson
Episode 263: Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Episode 262: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Charlie Jane Anders in Saratoga
Episode 261: Gene Wolfe, John Clute and A Borrowed Man
Episode 260: The Best of the Year with Charlie Jane Anders and Nisi Shawl
Episode 259: The Best of the Year with Paul Kincaid and Adam Roberts
Episode 258: Jim Minz and Baen Books
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