Series: Vintage Original Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Vintage (April 8, 2014) ISBN-10: 0345803639 Official Description: Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines […]
Series: The Imager Portfolio (Book 8) Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Tor Books (January 7, 2014) ISBN-10: 0765336340 Official Description: The saga of the Imager Quaeryt, Commander in the forces of Lord Bhayar, reaches a new climax as the great struggle to unify the continent of Lydar enters its final phase in L.E. Modesitt’s Rex Regis, […]
In episode 181 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Wendy Wagner, author of Skinwalkers. About Wendy: Wendy N. Wagner loves monsters, mayhem, and magic. Her first novel, Skinwalkers, is a Pathfinder Tales adventure due out this March, and her short fiction has appeared in magazines like Beneath Ceaseless Skies and […]
As someone relatively new to comics and graphic novels, as well as a fan of AMC’s The Walking Dead television series, I was anxious to read the original comics that inspired the show. I readily admit that I’ve never been a huge fan of comics. I loved the illustrations, I loved the stories, but the […]
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Tor Books (March 25, 2014) ISBN-10: 0765337266 Official Description: When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he’s orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when […]
Paperback: 374 pages Publisher: Pink Narcissus Press (September 17, 2013) ISBN-10: 1939056039 Official Description: Winter is a predator, taking villages one at a time, leaving the people either dead or half mad. For thousands of years, the Elementarí-spirits of the elements- have slept peacefully under the watchful eye of the Terakhein, a guardian tribe that […]
In episode 180 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome John Hornor Jacobs – author of The Twelve-Fingered Boy. About John: John Hornor Jacobs has worked in advertising for the last fifteen years, played in bands, and pursued art in various forms. He is also, in his copious spare time, a […]
The Dharma of Star Wars by Matthew Bortolin is a simple, fun introduction to the basic tenets of Buddhism. By using examples from the Star Wars saga, Bortolin illustrates how Buddhism addresses the cause of suffering, and how to transcend that suffering by cultivating mindfulness and recognizing our part in the greater whole of reality. […]
In episode 179 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Matt Wallace – author of The Failed Cities. About Matt: A screenwriter, novelist, and the award-winning author of over one hundred short stories, Matt spent a decade traveling the western hemisphere as a professional wrestler and combat instructor before retiring to […]
In episode 178 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Michael J. Martinez – author of The Daedalus Incident, The Gravity of the Affair and The Enceladus Crisis. About Michael: “I’m a husband, father and writer living the dream in the Garden State. I’ve spent nearly 20 years as a professional writer […]
In episode 177 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Adam Christopher, author of: Empire State, Seven Wonders, The Age Atomic and the new Hang Wire . About Adam: ADAM CHRISTOPHER is a novelist and comic writer. In 2010, as an editor, Christopher won a Sir Julius Vogel award, New Zealand’s […]
In episode 176 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome 2013 Campbell Award Nominee Max Gladstone, author of Three Parts Dead and Two Serpents Rise. About Max: Max’s novel Three Parts Dead was published by Tor Books in October 2012. Two Serpents Rise, the next book in the Craft Sequence, was […]
In episode 175 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice, to the show. About Ann: Ann Leckie has published short stories inSubterranean Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Realms of Fantasy. Her story “Hesperia and Glory” was reprinted in Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2007 […]
The anthology, Raygun Chronicles, from Every Day Publishing showcases many of the genre stories that were featured in the “short lived zine” called Raygun Revival. In the words of editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt, “the kinds of stories that made us fall in love with science fiction and space opera.” With an engaging introduction from the […]
A Guile of Dragons starts at the very beginning of Morlock Ambrosius’s life, in King Arthur’s Court. A betrayal and capture winds up dragging the parents of Morlock, Merlin (*that* Merlin) and his pregnant mistress Nimue across the Sea of Worlds to the Wardlands, Merlin’s home plane. (A nice touch to Amber and Moorcock). Our […]
In episode 174 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Freya Robertson, author of Heartwood and the forthcoming Sunstone. About Freya: Freya Robertson is a lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy, as well as a dedicated gamer. She has a deep and abiding fascination for the history and archaeology of the middle […]
In episode 173 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Ian Tregillis, author of Something More Than Night. About Ian: Ian Tregillis attended the University of Minnesota for both college and graduate school. Eventually the university decided it had seen quite enough of him, so it politely but firmly asked him […]
In episode 172 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Django Wexler, author of The Thousand Names. About Django: Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in […]
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 […]
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