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Episode 701: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 13 - Theodora Goss Dec 13, 2025

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For Day 13 of the Advent Calendar, Gary chats with Theodora Goss all the way from Budapest. They talk about re-reading Patricia McKillip, other favorite reading, and Dora’s excellent recent story collection Letters from an Imaginary Country, as well as her Athena Club novels and what it's like to write fantasies drawing from and commenting on other classic fantasies.

As always, our thanks to Dora for making time to chat with us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 700: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 12 - Nnedi Okorafor Dec 12, 2025

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For this episode, Gary chats with the very busy and very talented Nnedi Okorafor, who has had quite a year with the publication of major new novel Death of the Author; One Way Witch, the second novella in her She Who Knows trilogy; Space Cat, a children’s book starring her own cat Periwinkle; and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, which she co-edited with John Joseph Adams.

We chat about what she’s been reading, her fondness for Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman, and what’s up for next year, including the final volume of that trilogy, set in the world of her World Fantasy winning Who Fears Death.

Episode 699: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 11 - James Bradley Dec 11, 2025

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For Day 11 of our Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls up long-time friend of the podcast, acclaimed writer James Bradley, to discuss what he's been reading lately, his fabulous new novel Landfall, whether he revisits any favourite books or movies at this time of the year, and what he's been working on.

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

Episode 698: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 10 - Emily Tesh [REISSUED] Dec 10, 2025

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As we approach the halfway mark of our Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls Emily Tesh, Hugo Award winning author of Some Desperate Glory and co-host of reigning Hugo Best Fancast Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, to discuss the podcast she hosts with Rebecca Fraimow, her year in reading, her wonderful novel The Incandescent, and what she's working on now.

Episode 697: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 9 - Paul McAuley Dec 09, 2025

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For Day 9 of the 2025 Advent Calendar, Jonathan and Gary called Paul McAuley to discuss the books he's been reading and would recommend, holiday traditions, what he's had out recently, and his exciting new novel, Loss Protocol, which is due out in February.

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

Episode 696: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 8 - Isabel J. Kim Dec 08, 2025

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With our provider struggling a little following the various Cloudflare issues of late, Gary and Jonathan call up Nebula and BSFA Award winner Isabel J. Kim to talk about what she's been reading, her holiday favourites, what she had out in the past year, and the upcoming publication of her debut novel Sublimation next year.

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

Episode 695: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 7 - Aliya Whitely Dec 07, 2025

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Today Jonathan sits down with British SF Award winner and Arthur C. Clarke Award, BFA, and Tiptree Award nominee Aliya Whiteley to talk about what she's been reading and would recommend as the holidays get underway, as well as her recent collaboration with Oliver K Langmead, and her upcoming novel The Misheard World.

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

Episode 694: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 6 - Nancy Kress Dec 06, 2025

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Day 6 of the 2025 Coode Street Advent Calendar sees Gary and Jonathan taking a moment to catch up Hugo and Nebula Award winner Nancy Kress about what she's been reading, her most recent short story collection, and the new fantasy novel she has coming in 2026.

As always, our thanks to Nancy for making time to talk to us, and we hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 693: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 5 - Adrian Tchaikovsky Dec 05, 2025

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As we move towards the end of the first week of our 2025 Advent Calendar, Gary and Jonathan take a moment to sit down with Adrian Tchaikovsky to talk about what he's been working on, what he has coming out, and what holiday recommendations he might have.

Adrian is the author of the brilliant Tyrant Philosophers series, which has been a highlight of the past couple of years, among many other wonderful books, and now co-hosts the Starship Alexandria podcast with Emma Newman.

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

Episode 692: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 4 - Martha Wells Dec 04, 2025

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The end of the year is fast approaching, we're behind on episodes and we're keen to end the year on a high note. So this year we're going back to something we did in 2022. We’ve invited 24 creators of some of this year’s best and most interesting books to join us for ten minutes or so to talk about what they’re reading now, their favourite holiday reads, what they had out this year, and what they’ve got coming out in the year ahead. It’s a Coode Street Advent Calendar if that’s your thing, or just a run-up to December 24 for book lovers.

Today’s guest is Martha Wells, whose new novel Queen Demon came out in October. The next Murderbot novel, Platform Decay, is due in May, and season 2 of Murderbot is due in 2027.

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