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Episode 711: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 23 - Tochi Onyebuchi Dec 23, 2025

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World Fantasy and Ignyte winner Tochi Onyebuchi joins Gary for a brief but wide-ranging discussion that touches upon his genre-hopping 2025 novel Harmattan Season, his fascinating Internet memoir Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, the virtues of Roberto Bolaño and Dostoevsky, and Tochi’s own work in progress.

As always, our thanks to Tochi for making time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 710: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 22 - James S.A. Corey Dec 22, 2025

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Today Jonathan and Gary spend some time talking to Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, who write together as "James S.A. Corey", about what they've been reading, what they'd recommend, their seasonal reading and viewing, and their upcoming new novel, The Faith of Beasts.

We also touch upon progress on Daniel's third Kithamar novel and their ongoing project to write an entirely new novel right before your very eyes: James SA Corey writes a novel.

As always, our thanks to Daniel and Ty for making the time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 709: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 21 - Francis Spufford Dec 21, 2025

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As both the Advent Calendar and the year move slowly towards a close, Gary and Jonathan chat with Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill, Light Perpetual, and the wonderful Cahokia Jazz about what he's been reading, what he'd recommend, his holiday reading traditions and his incredible novel, Nonesuch.

As always, our thanks to Francis for making time to talk to us today. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 708: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 20 - Becky Chambers Dec 20, 2025

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For Day 20 of the Coode Street Advent Calendar, Gary and Jonathan talk to Hugo Award winning author of the Wayfarer series, Becky Chambers, about what Becky's been reading and would recommend, holiday reading and viewing traditions, publication of the Monk and Robot, and a brand new novel that should be out in 2026..

As always, our thanks to Becky for making time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 707: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 19 - Natalia Theodoridou Dec 19, 2025

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Gary talks with World Fantasy and Nebula Award winning writer Natalia Theodoridou, whose Bluebeard-inspired Sour Cherry was one of this year’s outstanding debut novels.

We touch upon reading Samantha Harvey’s Orbital and whether or not it’s SF, the brilliance of Vajra Chandrasekera, Natalia’s own first novel, his short fiction, and his current writing plans.

As always, our thanks to Natalia for making time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 706: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 18 - Ray Nayler Dec 18, 2025

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With December and the Advent Calendar heading towards their conclusion, Gary and Jonathan chat with recently minted Hugo Award winner Ray Nayler about what he's been reading, what he's been working on, his recent novel Where the Axe is Buried and his upcoming novel, Palaces of the Crow, before talking about ghost stories and year end traditions.

As always, we'd like to thank Ray for making time to talk to us, and hope you enjoy the conversation.

Episode 705: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 17 - Alastair Reynolds Dec 17, 2025

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It's Day 17 of our Advent Calendar and today Gary and Jonathan chat with Alastair Reynolds about the 25th Anniversary of Revelation Space, his new short story collections, and his latest novel, Halcyon Years.

We also touch on his favourite books of the year, what he's planning, and his favourite seasonal reads.

As always, our thanks to Al. We hope you enjoy today's episode.

Episode 704: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 16 - Kim Stanley Robinson Dec 16, 2025

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It's been a minute since we last spoke to Kim Stanley Robinson on the podcast, back in 2020 when The Ministry for the Future was new in the world. So today, Gary and Jonathan took some time to chat with Stan as part of the Advent Calendar about what he's been doing (a lot), what he's been reading (a lot!), and what he has coming up.

Our discussion touched on first major nonfiction book, 2022's The High Sierra: A Love Story, his forthcoming nonfiction book The Best Journey in the World, and the fabulous news that he's hard at work on a new novel.

As always, our thanks to Stan for making time to talk to us. We hope you all enjoy the discussion.

Episode 703: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 15 - Michael Swanwick Dec 15, 2025

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For the 15th day of our Advent Calendar Gary chats with Nebula and five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick about what he's been reading, how he celebrates the holiday season, what he's had out in the past year and his exciting new short story collection The Universe Box.

As always, we'd like to thank Michael for making time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 702: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 14 - Wole Talabi Dec 14, 2025

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For the 14th day of Advent, Jonathan is joined by Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated writer, Wole Talabi, to discuss the books he's been reading, what he'd recommend, his brand new novella "Descent" and the Sauútiverse, and his forthcoming second novel, The Fist of Memory.

As always, our thanks to Wole for taking the time to talk to us. We hope you all enjoy the chat.

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