The Coode Street Podcast

Episode 483: Ten Minutes with Alec Nevala-Lee


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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.

Hugo-nominated biographer, Analog contributor, and novelist Alec Nevala-Lee talks with Gary about his current research for a biography of R. Buckminster Fuller, who was a good friend of Arthur C. Clarke but also once gave a lecture at a Hubbard organization in the early 1950s; Alec’s own fascination with the cultural history of the 1960s, the evolution of futures studies, and the comfort to be found in returning to Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales, and the metafictional “grand game” that has evolved from them. Alec’s first collection, Syndromes, is available now as an audiobook original from Recorded Books.

Books mentioned include:

  • Syndromes: Science Fiction Stories by Alec Nevala-Lee
  • Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlen, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction by Alec Nevala-Lee
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
  • Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer
  • The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer 
  • The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by W.S. Baring-Gould
  • The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Leslie S. Klinger
  • ...more
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