Goodreads figures: 15506 ratings at an average of 3.87 So I’m reading Martin Lewis’ blog (Everything Is Nice) and he’s ripping into Hartwell and Cramer’s introduction of a Gregory Benford story.* During the evisceration, mention is made of early New Space Opera from authors such as Banks and Colin Greenland. And it occurs to me …
Tag Archive: Coode Street
Sep 09
Delayed Hugo Post
It’s a delayed post because frankly I don’t have much to say. For anyone who still has no idea who won, you can find the winners here. I was surprised to see Jo Walton walk away with Best Novel for Among Others. I genuinely expected GRRM, with his strong fanbase, to have his one in …
Jun 25
Writer and the Critic – Episode 20
It feels like forever since we recorded this episode. It’s that famous one from Continuum 8 where I pretend I’m Jim C Hines and try and pose like the cover of Anne McCaffrey’s The Crystal Singer. I honestly twinged a calf muscle doing that. Still it’s a fun episode. Alison and Kelly are in great …
Apr 17
Coode Street
97 episodes in and Coode Street gets better and better. Yeah, it’s done by Skype and yeah it abruptly begins and ends and yeah you could make a drinking game out of how many times “The Pelican Brief” has been mentioned on the show,*but the last bunch of podcasts, which have included interviews with Peter …
Apr 08
Hugo Noms…
The Hugo nominations have been announced, the full list can be found here. It’s an interesting list that should, hopefully, engender some interesting comment. Personally I’m expecting the cut and paste job that is Fan Writer to provoke some debate. I’ll also have something to say (of course), so expect a series of long, dull …
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