IZ Pod Interzone

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. // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction, and visit IZ Digital, IZ's free online sister zine, for even more amazing stories. // https://interzone.press / https://interzone.digital

The prize-winning film critic and classicist 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. // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction, and visit IZ Digital, IZ's free online sister zine, for even more amazing stories. // https://interzone.press / https://interzone.digital

Tashan Mehta – author of the short stories 'Rulebook for Creating a Universe' and 'The Traveller' and the novels THE LIAR'S WEAVE and MAD SISTERS OF ESI – 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. // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction, and visit IZ Digital, IZ's free online sister zine, for even more amazing stories. // https://interzone.press / https://interzone.digital

Gareth L. Powell is the author of the British Science Fiction Award–winning ACK-ACK MACAQUE, the critically acclaimed EMBERS OF WAR series, the Continuance novels STARS AND BONES and DESCENDANT MACHINE, and numerous other books and short stories. 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. // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction, and visit IZ Digital, IZ's free online sister zine, for even more amazing stories. // https://interzone.press / https://interzone.digital

Matt Hill – author of THE FOLDED MAN, GRAFT, ZERO BOMB, and THE BREACH – 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. // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction, and visit IZ Digital, IZ's free online sister zine, for even more amazing stories. // https://interzone.press / https://interzone.digital

Premee Mohamed – author of the short story collection NO ONE WILL COME BACK FOR US, the Nebula Award–winning novella AND WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU TONIGHT, the Prix Aurora–winning novella THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS, and many other works of fiction and non-fiction – came on the show and talked about the size of ideas, anti-war novels, fairy tales from dreams, and much, much more. Find out more about Premee and her many stories at premeemohamed.com and at her Patreon. // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction, and visit IZ Digital, IZ's free online sister zine, for even more amazing stories. // https://interzone.press / https://interzone.digital