Welcome to episode 9 of Season 12 of The Coode Street Podcast. This week Jonathan and Gary are joined by Nebula and Philip K. Dick award-winning author and musician Sarah Pinsker, whose new novel We Are Satellites is out this week. We touch upon the actual science of brain implants which served as background research for the novel, her reasons for narrating the story from the points of view of four different family members, the issues of corporate responsibility for new technology, and the surprisingly lax government oversight of medical devices such as those featured in the novel. We also discuss the reception of her much-heralded and prescient novel from last year, Song for a New Day, the challenges of writing near-future SF, her own influences and early reading in the field, balancing a career in music with one in fiction, and some of the stories in her collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea.
As always, we'd like to thank Sarah for joining us and hope you enjoy the episode!
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Episode 302: The State of Short Fiction
Episode 301: On Literary fiction and genre, the moon and more
Episode 300: Kij Johnson Exploring Old Worlds
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Episode 297: Politics and science fiction
Episode 296: A Return to Normal Programming
Episode 295a: Ellen Klages reads from Passing Strange
Episode 295: Ellen Klages and Passing Strange
Episode 294: Just a Song Before We Go (on hiatus)
Episode 293: James Bradley, Ian Mond and Coode Street's Year in Review
Episode 292: Short fiction, defining fantasy and more
Episode 291: Radio Free America
Episode 290: David Levine and Fran Wilde
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