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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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News about who’s coming on the show and the next issue of Interzone…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Author Premee Mohamed came on the show and talked about the size of ideas, anti-war novels, fairy tales from dreams, and more. Find out more about Premee and her many stories at premeemohamed.com and at her Patreon.

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Authors Cassandra Khaw and Richard Kadrey came on the show and talked about The Dead Take the A Train, their brilliant new novel about Julie Crews, a ‘drugged up, punked out psychic operative running wild in New York.’ They also talked about collaborating, dropped some hints about good things on the horizon, and recommended some excellent Halloween books, television, and cinema.

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Author Jendia Gammon (aka J. Dianne Dotson) came on the show and talked about her writing, how she incorporates art and ecology into my work, and the plans she has for the future of publishing. Find out more about Jendia’s work at jendiagammon.com.

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Author Aigner Loren Wilson came on the show and talked about her writing, her approach to craft, and some of her favourite recent reads. You can find out more about Aigner and the many brilliant things she does at aignerlwilson.com.

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Author Eliane Boey came on the show and talked about writing stories by fax, the writers she returns to for inspiration, and Club Contango, her forthcoming novel. Read Paul McAuley’s review of Other Minds in IZ Digital, and find more of Eliane Boey’s fiction in Clarkesworld, Cold Signal, and Weird Horror.

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Author Chana Porter came on show and talked about the power of Deep Space Nine, being mentored by Rachel Pollack, translating Le Guin into a libretto, hearing Kazuo Ishiguro, and more.

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Author Gary Gibson came on the show and talked about publishing, geeking out with the late, great Eric Brown, writing his new book Europa Deep, and much, much more. You can find Gary, and subscribe to his newsletter, at garygibson.net and read Gemma Church’s review of Europa Deep in IZ Digital.

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Film critic and classicist Nick Lowe came back on the show to talk about the films he couldn’t fit into the (already bigger than ever before!) IZ 295 serving of Mutant Popcorn: Taiwanese time-slip TV, Spanish mummies, agèd Argonauts, Ukrainian forest spirits, and more.

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Author Corey J. White came on IZ Pod and talked about ‘Hollywood Animals’, their new IZ 295 story, the power of Mark Fisher, the future of cyberpunk, different ways the world ends, and a whole lot more.

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Author Priya Sharma came on IZ Pod a few weeks back for a chat about her latest, brilliant novella, Pomegranates, about how she writes, and about some of the books she has enjoyed reading recently.

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Author and editor Teika Marija Smits came on IZ Pod and talked about her story ‘The November Room or Leaving the Labyrinth’ (out now in Interzone’s sister zine, IZ Digital), her forthcoming collection, Umbilical, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, fairy tales and science fiction, and more.

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Author Elizabeth Bear came on IZ Pod and talked about writing novels and short stories, ‘noir’ and ‘clair’, Star Trek, the genius of Agatha Christie, and much, much more.

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Author Una McCormack came on IZ Pod and talked about writing sf, the importance of small press publishing, the finale of Star Trek: Picard, and why you should never throw anything away.

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Author Stark Holborn came on IZ Pod to talk about the excellent (and also BSFA-longlisted) ‘The Feast of Mulligan Lang’, worldbuilding absence, creative mulch, comedy zombies, revisionist Westerns, and the new Triggernometry novella in Stark’s amazing series. Stark also read an exclusive excerpt from Hel’s Eight, the standalone follow-up to Ten Low you can pre-order now wherever books are sold.

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Author Kat Clay came on IZ Pod to talk about ‘The Black Box Killer’, her story in IZ 294. Kat also talked about the glory of M3GAN, planning careers with GPT3, and why she sometimes turns to crime.

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Author R.T. Ester came on IZ Pod to talk about ‘The Building Across the Street’, his story in IZ 294, ‘The Moon Eel Bennett in Conversation with the Astronaut Who Came Back for It’ and ‘Sleeping Arrangements’ (IZ Digital). R.T. also talked about films (Tenet, Emily the Criminal), writing characters, and two books: American War by Omar El Akkad and The Paper Menagerie, a short story collection by Ken Liu.

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Film critic and classicist Nick Lowe came on the first episode of IZ Pod and talked about the films he couldn’t fit into the IZ 294 serving of Mutant Popcorn: Chinese sf comedy Moon Man, the anime adaptation of The Deer King, and Alexandre O. Philippe’s Lynch/Oz.

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