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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