Share on TwitterIn episode 79 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester & John Anealio welcome PYR author KV Johansen. KV’s new book, Blackdog, is one of the subjects discussed in this episode. Links: KV Johansen (author’s website) Blackdog © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This episode features original music by John Anealio Podcast: [...]
Share on TwitterOn this week’s episode of the Functional Nerds Podcast, John DeNardo sits in for Patrick, and joins John Anealio in welcoming Jeff and Ann VanderMeer to the show. Links: Jeff VanderMeer The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists ODD? Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded [...]
Share on TwitterIn the 75th episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Andrew P Mayer, author of The Falling Machine, Book One of The Society of Steam, available from PYR. Links: Andrew P Mayer (author’s website) Andrew on Twitter The Falling Machine (Amazon) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio [...]
Share on TwitterIn Episode 69 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat with author and small press owner Charles Day. Links: Charles Day (Author’s Website) Evil Jester Press (Fiction Imprint) © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio Featuring original music by John Anealio. Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Share on TwitterIn Episode 65 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio talk all things Star Wars with the man who started the expanded universe, Timothy Zahn, to discuss his new book: Choices of One! Music in the episode: Sundog (Excerpt) by John Anealio George R. R. Martin is not Your Bitch [...]
Share on TwitterIn episode 64 of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio sit down to chat with Author Myke Cole about his upcoming Shadow Ops series from Ace. Links: Myke Cole (authors website) Author’s Blog Bibliography Check out Maphook.com – our new sponsor Music in the episode: Sundog (Excerpt) by John Anealio Angry [...]
Share on TwitterIn episode 61 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Ken Denmead, author of the new Geek Dad’s Guide to Weekend Fun, and publisher of Wired’s Geek Dad blog and podcast. This week we chat about: Wired, Geek Dad, Borderlands, Star Trek, blogging, RP games, books, Geek Mom and [...]
Share on TwitterIn the 60th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome back Mur Lafferty, author, podcast pioneer and all around awesome person. John and Mur chat at Balticon about: kickstarter campaigns, crowd funding, artists and patronage, do it yourself publishing, I Should Be Writing, getting published and epublishing. Links: The [...]
Share on TwitterIn the 59th episode of the Functional Nerds, John Anealio chats with solo bassist Steve Lawson. From his website, Steve Lawson is: a solo bassist who spends a lot of his time making very unbasslike noises. an ambient experimenter who likes pop tunes too much to go strictly soundscape, but is way too [...]
Share on Twitter In the 54th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester kicks back while John Anealio visits Devo Spice to talk about his new album. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: George R. R. Martin is not your bitch (excerpt) – John Anealio Platform Wars (excerpt) – Devo [...]
Share on TwitterIn the 48th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Jason Sanford, author of Memoria, available in Interzone Magazine. We also chat about: short story writing, novels, “Millisent Ka Plays In Real Time”, Interzone Magazine, inspiration, music, Lawrence Welk, Hank Williams, Ghosts, Philip Jose Farmer [...]
Share on TwitterIn the 46th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Harry Turtledove, author of Atlantis and Other places, now available from ROC. With Harry we chat about: Atlantis, alternate history stories, novellas, ecology, war, twitter, The Byzantine Empire, the 24 hour news cycle & immigration. [...]
Share on Twitter035 The Functional Nerds In the 35th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome back Blake Charlton & James Enge to talk dyslexia, Latin, Greek & why other languages have fewer folks suffering from dyslexia versus English, then break out into a fantastic chat on music, instruments and how language plays a huge [...]
Share on Twitter030 The Functional Nerds In our 30th episode, John & I welcome Jaym Gates & Erika Holt as our latest recruits in the 3rd Nerd Army! Jaym & Erika share details of their new anthology, Rigor Amortis; a collection of stories about Romanace, Revenge, Risk & Raunch – with Zombies. We also tackle [...]
Share on Twitter029 The Functional Nerds In our 29th episode, John & I welcome Neil Clarke in as our most recent 3rd Nerd! Neil is the Publisher / Editor of Clarkesworld magazine as well as the owner of Wyrm Publishing. In this episode, we chat about: Clarkesworld Magazine, the Hugo award, online magazines, online bookstores, [...]
Share on Twitter022 The Functional Nerds In the 22nd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by Z from Hipster Please – together, we chat with Kyle Stevens & Jim Demonakos – better known as Kirby Krackle! We chat about: Nerd Rock, Voltron: the music writing machine, music, the song [...]
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