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Episode 398: Ten Minutes with Paul McAuley
Episode 398: Ten Minutes with Paul McAuley
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15 minutes
Released:
Apr 26, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.
Gary chats for ten minutes (okay, more like 17 minutes) with Paul McAuley, author of some of the most engaging and provocative series of the past few decades, including the Confluence, Quiet War, and "Jackaroo novels and stories, and whose newest novel is the epic War of the Maps, which combines hard-SF ideas with a classic quest narrative.
Books mentioned include:
War of the Maps by Paul McAuley
Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds
By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
I Have Waited, and You Have Come by Martine McDonagh
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
The Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
Tropic of Kansas by Christopher Brown
The Harry Bosch novels by Michael Connelly
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
An Ecotopian Lexicon edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson & Brent Ryan Bellamy
And not mentioned, but advised: If you can, try to find the time and space to read a little poetry every day.
Gary chats for ten minutes (okay, more like 17 minutes) with Paul McAuley, author of some of the most engaging and provocative series of the past few decades, including the Confluence, Quiet War, and "Jackaroo novels and stories, and whose newest novel is the epic War of the Maps, which combines hard-SF ideas with a classic quest narrative.
Books mentioned include:
War of the Maps by Paul McAuley
Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds
By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
I Have Waited, and You Have Come by Martine McDonagh
The Long Drop by Denise Mina
The Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
Tropic of Kansas by Christopher Brown
The Harry Bosch novels by Michael Connelly
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
An Ecotopian Lexicon edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson & Brent Ryan Bellamy
And not mentioned, but advised: If you can, try to find the time and space to read a little poetry every day.
Released:
Apr 26, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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