IZ Pod

Interzone

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SCIENCE FICTION

IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction and early access to episodes of the IZ show https://interzone.press/patreon // The cover art is adapted from Radiostacja Gliwicka by Edgar Jiménez (CC BY-SA 2.0)

25/06/2025

A chat with Frederic S. Durbin

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.

50 min
15/05/2025

A chat with Izzy Wasserstein

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.

58 min
06/05/2025

A chat with Abi Curtis

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.

1h 13m
24/04/2025

A chat with Chris Farnell

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.

54 min
07/04/2025

Coming Soon, 7 April 2025

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.

2 min
02/03/2025

Nick Lowe’s Mutant Popcorn Extras, February 2025

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.

1h 29m
03/02/2025

A reading by R.T. Ester

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.

55 min
20/01/2025

A chat with Deborah Tomkins

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.

35 min

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IZ Pod is the new show for Interzone, the magazine // Support Interzone at Patreon to get issues packed with mind- and genre-bending fiction and non-fiction and early access to episodes of the IZ show https://interzone.press/patreon // The cover art is adapted from Radiostacja Gliwicka by Edgar Jiménez (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Creator

Interzone
Years Active

2023 - 2025
Episodes

37
Rating

Clean
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© 2025 Interzone
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