The Functional Nerds Podcast
Episodes
Episodes of The Functional Nerds Podcast
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This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Chuck Wendig, author of The Staircase in the Woods. About The Staircase in the Woods: Five high school friends are bonded by an oath to protect one another no matter what. Then, on a camping t
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Mary Robinette Kowal, author of The Martian Contingency. About The Martian Contingency: Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.?triggering an extinction-level global warmin
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Brandon Crilly, author of Serpentine Scenarios: Five New Adventures for B.O.A.. About Serpentine Scenarios: Five New Adventures for B.O.A.: The Bureau of Agents (B.O.A.) follows a simple manda
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Jim C. Hines, author of Kitemaster. About Kitemaster: Nial Sarnin is twenty-one years old, far too young to have lost her beloved husband Jika. One year after Jika’s death, Nial is preparing t
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome James J. Butcher, author of Cold Iron Task. About Cold Iron Task: Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby may have one case under his belt, but he’s still a novice Auditor in Boston’s Department of Unorthod
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Harmattan Season. About Harmattan Season: Veteran and private eye Boubacar doesn’t need much?least of all trouble?but trouble always seems to find him. Work has drie
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Catriona Silvey, author of LOVE AND OTHER PARADOXES. About LOVE AND OTHER PARADOXES: Cambridge University, 2005: Student Joe Greene scribbles verses in the margins of his notebook, dreaming of
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Allison Epstein, author of Fagin the Thief. About Fagin the Thief: Long before Oliver Twist stumbled onto the scene, Jacob Fagin was scratching out a life for himself in the dark alleys of nin
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome John Scalzi, author of WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE. About WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE: The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it’s an opportunity. For othe
This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome L.J. Cohen, author of Litany for a Broken World. About Litany for a Broken World: A young girl’s disastrous first foray through the multiverse cleaves her from her family and abandons her in a
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Michael Nayak, author of SYMBIOTE. About SYMBIOTE: As World War III rages, the scientists in Antarctica are thankful for the isolation – until a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research ba
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Kat Kourbeti and Michael Ireland from Strange Horizons to talk about the new podcast project celebrating 25 years of the magazine: S.H.@25. S.H.@25 Links: Arkady Martine’s SH@25 episode, featuring her sounds
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Jack Campbell, author of Destiny’s Way Book 2 of The Doomed Earth Duology. About Destiny’s Way: Lieutenant Selene Genji is hurled into the past to try and save a world that doesn’t want her in this action-pa
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Lauren J. A. Bear, author of MOTHER OF ROME. About MOTHER OF ROME: The names Romulus and Remus may be immortalized in map and stone and chronicle, but their mother exists only as a preface to her sons’ journ
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Katherine Villyard, author of IMMORTAL GIFTS. About IMMORTAL GIFTS: Prussia, 1841. Abraham only ever wanted to play violin. Hiding his Jewish status so he can study at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Music
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Cerece Rennie Murphy, author of In the Garden of Light and Shadow. About In the Garden of Light and Shadow: 4000 years ago, a rebellion in the Ever brought angels to live among us. At first, they were worshi
In a very special JUST US episode of the podcast this week, Patrick and Tracy are talking about cats, Dungeons & Dragons, Patreon, coffee, Star Wars coffee mugs, working out, black Friday, smart tvs, peopling, weddings, San Diego ComiCon, conve
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome R.S.A. Garcia, author of The Nightward. About The Nightward: For 500 years Gaiea’s Hand has stood as a ward against the Dark. The Age of Chaos is a faded memory. The Goddess has left Gailand and given her Bl
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Mike Chen, author of Marvel: What If . . . Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? (A Moon Knight & Venom Story). About Marvel: What If . . . Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? (A Moon Knight & Venom Story): Marc Spect
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Curtis C. Chen, author of TRUE BLUE KANGAROO. About TRUE BLUE KANGAROO: Welcome to the spacefaring future, where humanity travels between planets with ease and has abused that power to establish outposts in
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Two-Time Hugo Award winner Paul Weimer. About Paul Weimer: Paul Weimer is a Two-Time 2024 Hugo Award winner for Fan Writer and Fanzine (Editor). Not really a Prince of Amber, but rather, an ex-pat New Yorker
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome John Jackson Miller, author of BATMAN: RESURRECTION. About BATMAN: RESURRECTION: The Joker is dead, but not forgotten. Gotham City is saved, but it is still not safe. By night, its new symbol of hope, Batman
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Luis Jaramillo, author of The Witches of El Paso. About The Witches of El Paso: 1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older sisters, while longing for a lif
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Martha Wells, author of the updated and revised version of Wheel of the Infinite. About the updated and revised version of Wheel of the Infinite: A traitor and a swordsman join forces to save the world from
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Peter F. Hamilton, author of Exodus: The Archimedes Engine. About Exodus: The Archimedes Engine: In a past age, humanity fled a dying Earth in massive ark ships. These searched the galaxy to find a new home.
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