Cool Zone Media Book Club
Episodes
CZM Book Club: Everything that Isn't Winter, by Margaret Killjoy, Part One
21 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you part one (of two) of her own story about post-apocalyptic love and violenceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Macramé Flames, by Eric Raglin
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret tells you the tale of some nightmare queers off to bring about hell on earth.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Six
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Who says ecoterrorism is bad? In fantasy games?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Five
30 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There's nothing left to do but track these cultists to the source.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Four
23 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More mighty beasts assail our brave antiheroes!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Three
16 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All is not well in Bogbottom...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part Two
09 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can our heroes best the mighty beasts who await them in the swamps? Who will Trant throw a bomb at?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...
Pathfinder: Dawn of the Frogs, Part One
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's RPG time! Margaret and company are playing Pathfinder. This week, our heroes begin their journey.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
CZM Book Club: F*ck This Sh*t Manor, by Laurel Hightower
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a haunted house story about real estate desirability.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Two Tales of Classic Horror, by Saki and Bierce
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you "The Open Window" by Saki and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" by Ambrose BierceSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Hollywood Werewolf Conspiracy, by Hailey Piper
12 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about werewolves, polyamory, and cycles of trauma.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Kushtaka, by Mathilda Zeller
05 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off spooky month with a story about demons that I don't want to spoil by telling you more about but it's so good I promise.See omnystudio.com/...
CZM Book Club: Selkie Stories Are For Losers, by Sofia Samatar
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about yearning and magic and folklore and teenage gays.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, Interview with Alan Lea
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret sits down with author Alan Lea to discuss his novella, Hermetica. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Seven
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret brings you the conclusion of the tale of Hermetica.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Six
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret continues with tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Five
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club : Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Four
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Three
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret brings you further along into the tale of Hermetica, the generation ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part Two
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret continues with Hermetica and our protagonist discovers... a clue!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Hermetica, by Alan Lea, Part One
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a modern speculative fiction novella written in the classic style that she thinks you'll like.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
CZM Book Club: How to Live Like the World is Ending by Margaret Killoy
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you an essay about how to think about living during what feels like apocalyptic times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inf...
CZM Book Club: Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret got talked into doing something fun for book club this week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Diary of a Lunatic by Leo Tolstoy
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about mental health, panic disorders, and anticapitalism. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club Presents: The Evolution of an Agitator, by Lizzie M. Holmes
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about the endless quest to find the roots of inequality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Assembly Line, by B. Traven
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about arts and crafts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Two More Stories by Leo Tolstoy
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you two more stories about anticapitalism and religion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: After the Dance by Leo Tolstoy
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about what it takes to break from society in disgust. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club : The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón, Part Two
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you more short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy ...
CZM Book Club: The Revolutionary Fables of Ricardo Flores Magón
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you several short stories written by the one of the ideological leaders of the Mexican Revolution.See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
CZM Book Club: The Abbot of Druimenach
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you an Irish fairy tale about gender transformation that she really likes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Soria Moria Castle
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a classic norse fairy tale and then makes a thin and likely incorrect argument for why it's a queer parable. See omnystudio.co...
CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapters Eight and Nine
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads the final two chapters of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Barrow May Send What it May, Chapter Seven
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads chapter seven of her book The Barrow Will Send What it MaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Six
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads chapter six of her book, The Barrow Will Send What it May.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Five
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads chapter five of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Four
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads another chapter from the second book in her Danielle Cain series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Escape, part two
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads the second half of an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and disc...
CZM Book Club: Escape, part one
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads an anonymously authored speculative fiction story about what people could do if large scale roundups began, and discusses it with an an...
CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Three
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Robert Evans the second book in her Danielle Cain series.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapter Two
16 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Robert Evans the second book in her Danielle Cain seriesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May: Chapter One
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Robert the second novella of the Danielle Cain series, Preorder the third book in the series, including all three audiobooks, on Kickst...
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Peace Department
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret from the future reports on the dinosaur creche in Finland.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Last Report from Mx. Murder
23 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret from the future relays the last message from Mx. Bunny Face Murder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: After the Battle
16 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret from the future tells you about Mx. Bunny Face Murder's childhood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: Massacred by Demon Ents
09 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret from the future relays a fateful battle in the forests of Catalonia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Dreadnaught Funeral
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret from the future continues her reporting from the front in Catalonia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: The Battle of Ogre Hill
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret from the future describes the terrifying battle of ogre hill.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: In Bed With the Dreadnaughts
19 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret from the future reads a report from behind the Iron Curtain in fascist-occupied Spain.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: A Bestiary of Beasts
12 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret from the future talks about all of the terrible creatures that fascists have invented to attack internationalist forces.See omnystudio.com/li...
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2055: How to Survive (the Dino Wars)
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret and Mia discuss the headlines here at the start of the year 2055 during world war 3.5.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: General Lichterman
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret interviews the one and only General Lichterman about her decades as a revolutionary icon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Live From DinoCon 4 in Helsinki
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret and Jamie report back from DinoCon in the year 2054.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Cool Zone 2054: Reports From the Dino War: The War in Review
08 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret comes back from the future with a podcast episode from the year 2054.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Free Orcs of Cascadia by Margaret Killjoy
17 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's a Book Club Rerun! Margaret Killjoy reads her short story, The Free Orcs of Cascadia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Nazis Don't Go To Valhalla
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Book Club Rerun from the ol' ICHH archive - now with Book Club wrapping! Margaret Killjoy joins us to read a special spooky week ghost story about the...
CZM Book Club: A Bunch of Stories About Russian Witches
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you folklore about witches in Russia, because she likes witches and it's still sort of Halloween.See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...
CZM Book Club: "The Vampire Maid" by Hume Nisbet
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story in which vampires serve as a metaphor for yet another thing, because vampires are cool.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...
CZM Book Club: "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you the story she figures probably inspired Predator.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Luella Miller" by Mary Wilkins Freeman
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a spooky vampire story that's quite a bit different.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Svend and His Brethren" by William Morris, Part Two
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you even more William Morris, but this story has swords in it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The Story of the Unknown Church" by William Morris
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about decoration. Really.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The Sapling Cage" by Margaret Killjoy
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Audiobook narrator Jackie Meloche reads Margaret the first chapter of her own upcomin book!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "2 B R 0 2 B" by Kurt Vonnegut
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a classic sci-fi critique of eugenics by a master of satire.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Virgin Ground" by Rosel George Brown
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a classic sci-fi tale of a marriage on Mars gone wrong.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Intentionalities" by Aimee Ogden
25 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a science fiction story about space unions and family ties.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Three Stories From Japanese Folklore
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you stories about demons and moon maidens.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "John Simnel's First Goshawk" by Tegan Moore
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about a boy who could have been king but instead talks to birds.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Spring Woods Spring" by B. Pladek
04 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about where personal grief meets climate grief.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Stories About Nightingale the Robber
28 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you Russian folklore about a cool bird robber guy who lives in a nest that some punks like.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...
CZM Book Club: "The Orchard of Tomorrow" by Kelsea Yu
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about what enormous love it will take to rebuild the world and take back what's ours from the powerful.See omnystudio.com/l...
CZM Book Club: "The Three Trials of the Wind," by Shiv Ramdas, Part 2 of 2
14 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret finishes reading you a reimagining of Hindu mythology by a masterful speculative fiction author.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...
CZM Book Club: "The Three Trials of the Wind," by Shiv Ramdas, Part 1 of 2
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a reimagining of Hindu mythology by a masterful speculative fiction author.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Four
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret finishes reading Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...
CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Three
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret continues to read Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for p...
CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part Two
16 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret continues to read Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for p...
CZM Book Club: "Party Discipline" by Cory Doctorow, Part One
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Robert Evans a novella about the near future of tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...
CZM Book Club: "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a children's story written by one of the greatest queer icons of history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The Stolen Bacillus" by HG Wells
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads a classic anti-anarchist story by HG Wells written before Wells learned what was up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...
CZM Book Club: "Yermak, the Conqueror of Siberia" by Leo Tolstoy
19 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads a piece of folklore about the colonization of Siberia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Three Ruthenian Folk Tales
12 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads three Slavic folk tales about magic women and mean children.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The Fortunate Death of Jonathan Sandelson" by Margaret Killjoy, Part Two
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part two, Margaret reads Danl a story about hackers using drones to disrupt for-profit incarceration.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...
CZM Book Club: "The Fortunate Death of Jonathan Sandelson" by Margaret Killjoy, Part One
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Danl a story about hackers using drones to disrupt for-profit incarceration.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Gare a classic sci-fi tale about the divine possibility of computers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Transmutation" by Katherine Sparrow
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Sophie a story of love gone wrong between a magician and an alchemist.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The Last Beat of My Heart" by Edward Morris
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Gare a story about everyday magic, teen angst, and mixtapes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Part Two of "The Vampyre" by John Polidori
24 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret finishes the first modern vampire, a parable about the dangers of the libertine royalty,See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: Part One of "The Vampyre" by John Polidori
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you the first modern vampire, a parable about the dangers of the libertine royalty,See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Tongue Mining" by Jack Morton
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about AI, translation, and love across languages. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: An excerpt from "An RVer's Guide to the American West" by Carrot Quinn
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Robert a post-apocalyptic story of a woman and her dog surviving in the mountains.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "Confession to a Dead Man" by Margaret Killjoy
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Gare one of her stories, set in the world of Penumbra City.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Part Two
18 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you the second part of a classic feminist horror story about the madness caused by patriarchy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
CZM Book Club: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Part One
11 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a classic feminist horror story about the madness caused by patriarchy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The House of Surrender" by Laurie Penny
04 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Shereen a story about a time traveler sent to a very strange prison.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: "The Untimely Death of Northgate Mall" by Evan J Peterson
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Gare an urban folk horror story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
CZM Book Club: The Flair by Nick Mamatas
17 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads Mia a sci-fi story about what people will do for free power and war. And about hacker clowns.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...
CZM Book Club: Printed Guns & Sold Schematics by SJ Klapecki
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret reads you a story about an engineer in a collapsed United States, just trying to make her living selling weapons to rebels.See omnystudio.com...
CZM Book Club: The Plastic People by Tobias Buckell
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Cool Zone Media Book Club, Margaret reads Gare a story about making fun of rich people in space.See omnystudio.com/listener for...
CZM Book Club: Handala. The Olive, the Storm, and the Sea by Sonia Suliaman
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Cool Zone Media Book Club, Margaret reads James the story of what happens when a Palestinian orphan runs into conflict with thr...
CZM Book Club: The Lost Roads by Sim Kern
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Cool Zone Media Book Club, Margaret reads "The Lost Roads," a utopian story about a world without cars by author Sim Kern, to S...