{"id":34752,"date":"2024-01-26T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=34752"},"modified":"2024-01-26T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:35:12","slug":"wolfe-strahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/01\/26\/wolfe-strahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Munch MVP sandwiches with MVPs Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan in Episode 217 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the last of four Eating the Fantastic episodes coming to you from the recent World Fantasy Convention weekend in Kansas City, following my chats with Nina Kiriki Hoffman<\/a>, Pat Murphy<\/a>, and Izzy Wasserstein<\/a>. And why end my trip with a single guest when I can have two?<\/p>\n

Gary K. Wolfe is a science fiction critic, editor, and biographer who\u2019s had a monthly review column in Locus<\/em> since December 1991. He was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work in 2006 for the book Soundings: Reviews 1992\u20131996<\/em>, and again in 2011, for the book Bearings: Reviews 1997\u20132001<\/em>. Over the years, he\u2019s won the Eaton Award from the Eaton Conference on Science Fiction, the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Science Fiction Research Association, the Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and the British Science Fiction Association Award for nonfiction for the previously mentioned Soundings: Reviews 1992\u20131996<\/em>. He\u2019s also (among many other things) edited two wonderful volumes for the Library of America \u2014 American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956<\/em> and American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Strahan is a nineteen-time Hugo Award nominated editor and publisher of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He’s won the Aurealis Award, the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism and Review, the Australian National Science Fiction Convention’s “Ditmar Award”, and the Peter McNamara Achievement Award. As a freelance editor, he\u2019s edited or co-edited more than sixty original and reprint anthologies and seventeen single-author story collections and has been a consulting editor for Tordotcom Publishing and Tor.com since 2014, where he\u2019s acquired and edited two novels, 36 novellas, and a selection of short fiction. Strahan won the World Fantasy Award (Special \u2013 Professional) in 2010 for his work as an editor, and his anthologies have won the Locus Award for Best Anthology four times (2008, 2010, 2013, 2021) and the Aurealis Award seven times. He has been Reviews Editor at Locus<\/em> since 2002.<\/p>\n

As the reason I\u2019m with both of them is \u2014 together, they\u2019ve been cohosts of The Coode Street Podcast<\/em><\/a> since May 2010, which had 640 episodes live the last time I looked, and has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Fancast ten times, winning once.<\/p>\n

We discussed why The Coode Street Podcast<\/em> is “the Cheers<\/em> of podcasts,” the foolish statement made during their first episode which meant there had to be more, the identity of the guest who was most resistant to appearing on their show, the reason the podcast made Paul Cornell want to run, the different interviewing techniques necessary when having conversations with the voluble vs. the reticent, the white whales whom they could never snare, how to make sure we’re speaking to more than just our own generations, their advice for anyone who wants to launch a podcast, the way to avoid getting canned responses out of guests, how their conversational methods have changed over 13 years, whether critiquing books or rejecting stories has ever affected relationships with a guest, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us at Chef J BBQ<\/a> — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 216 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Listen via the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n