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Author Frederic S. Durbin came on the show and talked with me about having fun writing, characters that speak to you, and his fantastic new novel, The Country Under Heaven. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Izzy Wasserstein came on the show and talked with me about community, tenacity, having fun in secondary worlds, finding joy in this world, and her novella, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Abi Curtis came on the show and talked with me about the magic of the ordinary, the power of place, writing about early parenthood, and her novel The Headland. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Chris Farnell came on the show and talked about about indie publishing, optimism and science fiction, and writing his stories about Fermi, a spaceship with an Alcubierre drive that vaporises entire star systems in its wake. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

News about who’s coming on the show and the next issue of Interzone… ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

IZ’s Mutant Popcorn film critic Nick Lowe joined me on the show to look back at the sff films of 2024, to talk about some fantastic screenplays (including Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance), and to look ahead at some of the 2025 films we’re excited to see (including a read of some revealing IMDb tags). It’s the longest IZ show yet, full of great things, and was a lot of fun to make. Here are some of the screenplays (many unproduced) Nick talked about during the show: A Topiary, Shane Carruth | Indieground Films Avatar, James Cameron (1995 Project 880 scriptment) | Avatar Wiki Bessie, Richard Kelly | PDFCOFFEE Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman | Indieground Films Her, Spike Jonze | Indieground Films Heretic, Scott Beck & Bryan Woods | DocumentCloud I Saw the TV Glow, Jane Schoenbrun | DocumentCloud The Keys to the Street, Christopher Nolan | The Script Savant One Saliva Bubble, David Lynch | The City of Absurdity Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan | DocumentCloud Ronnie Rocket, David Lynch | The City of Absurdity, early draft & later draft Spider-Man, James Cameron (1996 scriptment) | ScriptLab Strange Days, James Cameron (original scriptment) | Screencraft The Modern Ocean, Shane Carruth | Dropbox The Substance, Coralie Fargeat | DocumentCloud Read Nick’s Mutant Popcorn in Interzone, and browse the indices of all the films Nick has reviewed and every column he has written. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author R.T. Ester came on this special episode of the show to read his fabulous story ‘The Building Across the Street’ (first published in IZ 294) and to talk about his forthcoming novel The Ganymedan. Read more stories by R.T. in IZ Digital, and find his new story ‘The Elevator Down’ in Weird Lit Magazine. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Deborah Tomkins, came on the show and talked about about how climate change made her a writer, the power of flash, and her new novella Aerth. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Bruce Omar Yates, came on the show and talked about writing a Middle Eastern Western, getting lost in Nashville, why oscillation is key to understanding, and his debut novel The Muslim Cowboy. IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever… ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Adam S. Leslie came on the show and talked about growing up in a place where nothing ever happens, the films that influenced him (sometimes before he’d even seen them), writing himself paranoid, colour-coded music, and his weird and wonderful new ‘nostalgia horror’ Lost in the Garden (Dead Ink, 2024). ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Tobi Ogundiran came on the show and talked about hiding Stephen King in the school library, living and writing in Moscow, why gods are important to us all, and more. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Erin E. Adams came on the show and talked about growing up in the Rust Belt, writing stories that pull up the carpets and reveal the truth beneath, and how writing screenplays changed the way she writes fiction. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Film critic and awesome human Nick Lowe joined me on the show today (4 July) to talk about a whole lot: a new Telugu science fiction epic out in cinemas now; some of the highs and lows of the year in film so far; and an adaptation coming later in the year that both of us can’t wait to see. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Gerardo Sámano Córdova came on the show and talked about living with the fantastical; paying attention to the edges (and the spaces inbetween); being okay with things not making sense; having the courage to take risks; and his exceptionally special, incredibly beautiful debut novel Monstrilio. Find Gerardo Sámano Córdova at gerardosamanocordova.com. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author and Interzone columnist Aliya Whiteley came on the show and talked with me about her tremendous, description-defying, century-spanning story-in-a-story Three Eight One; about how liberating it can be to write for no one but yourself; about how books change over time, and over time change us; and much, much more. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Authors Tony Ballantyne, Keith Brooke, and Una McCormack joined me to talk about their memories of the late, great Eric Brown. We talked about Eric’s sf short stories and novels, about his Langham and Dupré mysteries, and about what made him such a fabulous and irreplaceable author, co-author, mentor, and friend. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Interzone film critic and awesome human Nick Lowe returned to IZ Pod to talk about three films that didn’t make it into his IZ 296 serving of Mutant Popcorn – Alexandre O. Philippe’s must-watch William Shatner documentary; a gender-flipped, body-hopping Stuart Gordon tribute; and an sf-adjacent comedy with Irish clowns schlepping across apocalyptic peat bogs – and to look more closely at Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, the 1992 Alasdair Gray novel it is based on, and the gap between the two. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Tashan Mehta came on the show and talked about chasing down the final form of a book; being light like the bird, not like the feather; sounding out echoey depths; finding the language you need to carve your experience into reality; and much more. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Gareth L. Powell came on IZ Pod and talked about falling in love with science fiction, blowing up universes, building online communities, and what it is his books are about. He also passed on some important advice he once was given by a very special writer in an arty coffee house in Bristol. Find out more about Gareth at garethlpowell.com. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.

Author Matt Hill came on the show and talked about literary touchstones, computer games, the danger of writing about dreams, the things we can’t say about being a parent, and the voices of Chernobyl that irradiate his latest novel, Lamb. ● ● ● IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine. Add IZ Pod to your RSS reader of choice, find the show on whichever podcast platform you prefer, and join the Interzone Patreon for early access to new episodes.