Episode 55: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

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Episode 55: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

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68 minutes

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Jun 11, 2011

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With Gary home from his ICFA board meeting in Florida and Wiscon, we sat down to discuss cyberpunk, the 'movement and radical hard SF, Steampunk!, first novels and a few other things. No awards were mentioned in the recording of this podcast.

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Jun 11, 2011

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Discussion and digression on science fiction and fantasy with Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan.

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Episode 54: Live with Gary K. Wolfe, Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages, and Geoff Ryman!: Last weekend Gary traveled to Madison, Wisconsin - home of Wiscon - where in amongst fine dinners and even finer conversation he managed to find time to ask Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages and Geoff Ryman to join us on the podcast to discuss the 20th anniversa... by The Coode Street Podcast
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Episode 58: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!: After a long week, and a flight home from Seattle for Gary we were back in the pod this morning where we discussed what people feel awards are for and how we react to them, how the year in science fiction and fantasy is going so far, Osama by Lavie Tidha... by The Coode Street Podcast
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Episode 55: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

Episode 55: Live with Gary K. Wolfe!

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