2022 Hugo Nomination Consideration
The Functional Nerds podcast is eligible for a Hugo Nomination in the Best Fancast category for 2022. To help you navigate through all of the episodes we put out in 2021, we’ve put this post together with links and descriptions. We published 46 episodes in 2021.
For information on how to make nominations for the 2022 Hugo Awards, please visit the Chicon 8 website.
The Hosts
Patrick Hester is a two–time Hugo Award Winner, an author, blogger, podcaster and functional nerd. His first novel, Into The Fire, was published by WordFire Press and is available wherever good books are sold. He produced and hosted the Hugo Award winning SF Signal podcast, and I Should Be Writing, the podcast for wannabe fiction writers hosted by Campbell and Hugo award winning author Mur Lafferty. He’s the original Functional Nerd – so all of this is totally his fault…
Tracy Townsend is the author of The Nine and The Fall (books 1 and 2 in the Thieves of Fate series), a monthly columnist for the feminist sf magazine Luna Station Quarterly, and an essayist for Uncanny Magazine. She’s the former chair of the English department at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, an elite public boarding school, where she teaches creative writing and science fiction and fantasy literature. When she’s actually sitting still, she lives in Bolingbrook, Illinois with two bumptious hounds, two remarkable children, one goblin cat, and a very patient husband.
January 2021
- Episode 475 – Ryan Van Loan, author of THE SIN IN THE STEEL
- Episode 476 – Robert J. Sawyer, author of THE OPPENHEIMER ALTERNATIVE
- Episode 477 – Laurell K. Hamilton, author of RAFAEL
February 2021
- Episode 478 – Ehsan & Shakil Ahmad, co-authors of UNBOUND: THE WILD SUN (Book 2)
- Episode 479 – Live From Capricon 41!
- Episode 480 – Just Us and The Mandalorian
March 2021
- Episode 481 – Greta Kelly, author of THE FROZEN CROWN
- Episode 482 – Travis Heermann, author of TOKYO BLOOD MAGIC
- Episode 483 – Nicky Drayden, author of ESCAPING EXODUS
- Episode 484 – Allison Epstein, author of A TIP FOR THE HANGMAN
April 2021
- Episode 485 – Marina Lostetter, author of THE HELM OF MIDIGHT
- Episode 486 – Elly Bangs, author of UNITY
- Episode 487 – Just Us, Grief, Guilt and Death
- Episode 488 – S.B. Divya author of MACHINEHOOD
May 2021
- Episode 489 – With Cassandra Khaw, Genevieve Gornichec and Caitlin Starling co-authors of VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE – WALK AMONG US
- Episode 490 – Nino Cipri author of FINNA
- Episode 491 – Sarah Pinsker author of WE ARE SATELLITES
- Episode 492 – David Ebenbach author of HOW TO MARS
June 2021
- Episode 493 – K.M. Szpara, author of FIRST, BECOME ASHES
- Episode 494 – Andy Weir, author of PROJECT HAIL MARY
- Episode 495 – Christopher Swiedler, author of THE ORPHEUS PLOT
- Episode 496 – Just Us, Monty Python and Root Beer
- Episode 497 – Ryan Van Loan, author of THE JUSTICE IN REVENGE (THE FALL OF THE GODS, 2)
July 2021
- Episode 498 – Ellen Datlow, editor of BODY SHOCKS: EXTREME TALES OF BODY HORROR
- Episode 499 – Lena Nguyen, author of WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE
- Episode 500 – Catherynne M. Valente, author of THE PAST IS RED
August 2021
- Episode 501 – S. Qiouyi Lu, author of In THE WATCHFUL CITY
- Episode 502 – David Liss, author of THE PECULIARITIES
- Episode 503 – PJ Manney, author of (CON)SCIENCE: A NOVEL (Phoenix Horizon Book 3)
- Episode 504 – Lauren O’Connor, author of ROBIN AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN ADOLESCENCE
- Episode 505 – P Djéli Clark, author of A MASTER OF DJINN
September 2021
- Episode 506 – Justin Woolley, author of SHAKEDOWNERS
- Episode 507 – Neil Sharpson, author of WHEN THE SPARROW FALLS
- Episode 508 – Jason Sanford, author of PLAGUE BIRDS
- Episode 509 – Clark T. Carlton, author of THE GHOST ANTS OF GRYLLADESH
October 2021
- Episode 510 – Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth Powell, co-authors of LIGHT CHASER
- Episode 511 – Ryan O’Nan, author of WINDERS
- Episode 512 – Helene Wecker, author of THE HIDDEN PALACE
- Episode 513 – Becky Chambers, author of A PSALM FOR THE WILD-BUILT and it’s sequel A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY
November 2021
- Episode 514 – Alix E. Harrow, author of A SPINDLE SPLINTERED
- Episode 515 – Zin E. Rocklyn, author of FLOWERS FOR THE SEA
- Episode 516 – K.E. Flann, author of HOW TO SURVIVE A HUMAN ATTACK
- Episode 517 – Cat Rambo, author of YOU SEXY THING
December 2021
- Episode 518 – CJ Cooke, author of THE LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES
- Episode 519 – Derek Kunsken, author of THE QUANTUM WAR (Book 3 of THE QUANTUM EVOLUTION series)
- Episode 520 – Monica Byrne, author of THE ACTUAL STAR
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