{"id":2138,"date":"2016-03-28T12:17:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T02:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2016-03-28T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T02:17:43","slug":"coode-street-roundtable-reading-patricia-mckillips-kingfisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Coode Street Roundtable (Reading Patricia Mckillip&#8217;s Kingfisher)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kingfisher.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2139\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2139\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kingfisher.jpg?resize=191%2C300\" alt=\"kingfisher\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kingfisher.jpg?resize=191%2C300 191w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kingfisher.jpg?w=302 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a>This week I&#8217;ve been honoured to participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2016\/03\/27\/coode-street-roundtable-3-patricia-a-mckillips-kingfisher\/\">a roundtable discussion of Patricia Mckillip&#8217;s new novel,\u00a0<\/a><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2016\/03\/27\/coode-street-roundtable-3-patricia-a-mckillips-kingfisher\/\">Kingfisher,<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>with Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. Wolfe, and Ian Mond over at Coode Street.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is a riff on Arthurian tales of Percival (or Parzifal), in a modern North America where questing knights ride around in limousines or on motorcycles, call home on their cellphones, and basilisk attacks take place on highways with backed-up quest traffic and no wifi connectivity.<\/p>\n<p>The novel has three key characters (Pierce Oliver, Daimon Wyvernbourne, and Carrie), three key settings (Cape Mistbegotten\/Desolation Point, the Chimera Bay, and the city of Severluna), and three restaurants\/cuisines (the slow food\/locavore restaurant of Heloise Oliver, the greasy spoon\/fish fry food at Kingfisher Inn, and the Blumenthalian food-as-art restaurant overseen by Todd Stillwater).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a marvellous book, and we had a sparkling, wide-ranging and wonderful chat about it.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2016\/03\/27\/coode-street-roundtable-3-patricia-a-mckillips-kingfisher\/\">listen to the podcast over at Coode Street.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I&#8217;ve been honoured to participate in a roundtable discussion of Patricia Mckillip&#8217;s new novel,\u00a0Kingfisher,\u00a0with Jonathan Strahan, Gary K. 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