Ian Patterson
Award-winning Colorado-based author of speculative fiction, horror, and poetry; his novel Fruits of Our Labor (Shiraki Press, 2026) imagines a near-future America where women can reproduce without men.
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PODCASTS
Sep 15, 2026
Matt WarnockHOST
So why did, why did you choose within a Genesis for the kind of method of reproduction versus anything else you could have? Yeah.
Ian PattersonGUEST
So all like I'll rewind and give you the Genesis of where this book came from, which is.
Ian PattersonGUEST
We're listening to all of these things coming out of the far right, the gender politics, this rise of new misogyny with the manosphere, all this shit's happening.
Ian PattersonGUEST
And my wife and I are talking about all this in the kitchen while I'm cooking.
10 MINS LATER
WaltHOST
What does that let you do that you couldn't have with a single point of view?
Ian PattersonGUEST
My wife and I are watching the 2024 election cycle play out, and I'm listening to this kind of ramping rhetoric, especially from the far right, this resurgence of pretty crazy misogyny coming out.
Ian PattersonGUEST
I'm listening to a podcast and cooking in the kitchen, which is something I'd love to do.
Ian PattersonGUEST
And it's this podcast called Unexplainable, which I'm a big fan of because it helps me have wonder for the world.
6 MINS LATER
Kevin SimpsonHOST
So tell us how you conceive what you call these theme-forward books, and more specifically, why that form sort of stirs your creativity.