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:

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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