In episode 171 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Jamie Wyman, author of Wild Card. About Jamie: After a misspent adulthood pursuing a Music Education degree, JAMIE WYMAN fostered several interests before discovering that being an author means never having to get out of pajamas. (However, she can eat/spin fire, […]
In Codex Born by Jim C. Hines, the hero and heroines from Libriomancer must face an old enemy in a powerful new form. When Johannes Gutenberg began mass printing books five hundred years ago, he made their inner magic accessible to certain people with magical abilities. Libriomancers, such as Gutenberg, could tap into the collective […]
In episode 170 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Brian McClellan, author of Promise of Blood. About Brian: Brian McClellan is an epic fantasy author. He studied writing under Brandon Sanderson and Orson Scott Card and was an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. Brian is an […]
As I write this, November draws nigh! Aspiring writers everywhere stock up on Starbucks gift cards, replacement keyboards, and that most renewable of resources, their own unrelenting anxiety about what to write for NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month. For the last few years, I’ve taken on the annual challenge of writing 50,000 words of […]
In the 168th episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio talk. What do we talk about? Well – there’s the bit about… you know what? You should just listen to the episode. That is way easier than me having to sit here and type up a bunch of clever show notes […]
In episode 167 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Wesley Chu, author of the Angry Robot books The Lives of Tao and its sequel, The Deaths of Tao. About Wesley: Wesley Chu was born in Taiwan and immigrated to Chicago, Illinois when he was just a pup. It was there […]
In episode 166 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome author Stephen Blackmore, whose first novel, CITY OF THE LOST, a paranormal noir with zombies, demons, witches and a lot of blood and violence is out now through DAW books. About Stephen: Stephen Blackmoore is a pulp writer of little to […]
In episode 165 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio offer up a live panel recording from Worldcon in San Antonio titled: How To Create A Memorable Podcast. The panel was recorded at 10 am on the Monday following the Hugo Awards and included several people from genre podcasting. The Panel: Julia […]
In the 164th episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Author and Futurist Brenda Cooper. About Brenda Cooper: Brenda is a technology professional, a science fiction writer and a futurist. Her most recent novel, THE CREATIVE FIRE, came out in November 2012 from Pyr. The sequel, THE DIAMOND DEEP, wich […]
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition (September 17, 2013) ISBN-10: 0765335441 Official Description: The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes […]
In the 163rd episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Douglas Lain, author of the new book, Billy Moon, out from TOR. About Douglas Lain: Lain is the producer and host of the weekly podcast Diet Soap, which features insightful guests discussing a wide range of topics, including philosophy, mysticism, […]
Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (August 27, 2013) ISBN-10: 0765321726 Official Description: In Douglas Lain’s debut novel set during the turbulent year of 1968, Christopher Robin Milne, the inspiration for his father’s fictional creation, struggles to emerge from a manufactured life, in a story of hope and transcendence. Billy Moon was […]
Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey has been glibly described as “Jane Austen with Magic”. This shortchanges the depth of worldbuilding and characterization to be found in Kowal’s work. It captures a 19th century very much like our own with a depth that is recognizable to any author writing in or of the […]
In the 162nd episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome film maker Eric Buist to talk about his web series: HopStories. About Hops Stories: Before a beer delights your senses, before it’s plucked off the shelf, it journeys from brewery to market, it’s bottled, before it’s transformed from simple ingredients […]
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (September 3, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451417313 Official Description: 2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 2036: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. But even as humanity contends with […]
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (September 3, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451417313 Official Description: Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and […]
In the 161st episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio talk. Just the two of them. That’s right – just John and Patrick. Sit back, relax, and enjoy…! What do we talk about? Well – there’s the bit about being a teacher. Then the picks – you can see those listed […]
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Ace (August 27, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425264920 Official Description: THE NEW ALEX VERUS NOVEL I don’t publicly advertise that I’m a mage, but I don’t exactly hide it either, and one of the odd things I’ve learnt over the years is just how much you can get away with if […]
Ian Doescher’s new book, William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, combines the grandeur and sweep of everyone’s favorite space opera with the linguistic style and formatting of the Bard’s greatest plays. References to both Shakespeare and the Star Wars saga have become so commonplace in popular culture that readers should have little trouble picking up at least […]
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