Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Elly-Bangs/dp/1616963425/"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="http://www.elbangs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elly Bangs</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Elly-Bangs/dp/1616963425/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UNITY</a>!<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Elly-Bangs/dp/1616963425/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unity</a>: Danae is not only herself. She is concealing a connection to a grieving collective inside of her body. But while she labors as a tech servant in the dangerous underwater enclave of Bloom City, her fractured self cannot mend. In a desperate escape, Danae and her lover Naoto hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to guide them out of the imploding city.<br> But for Danae to reunify, the three new fugitives will have to flee across the otherworldly beauty of the postapocalyptic Southwest. Meanwhile, Danae’s warlord enemy, the Duke, and a strange new foe, the Borrower, already seek them at any price.<br> About <a href="http://www.elbangs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elly Bangs</a>: Elly Bangs is a queer trans woman who was raised in a new-age cult, had six wisdom teeth, and once rode her bicycle alone from Seattle to the Panama Canal. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceasless Skies, Escape Pod, Fireside Quarterly, and elsewhere — and her debut apocalyptic cyberpunk novel, Unity, is coming in Spring 2021. She’s a SFWA member and a 2017 graduate of Clarion West.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Elly: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yerbe Mate</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://criobru.com/">Crio Bru</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/elly_bangs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Elly Bangs on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/TracyATownsend" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tracy Townsend on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/atfmb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Patrick Hester on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://www.patreon.com/functionalnerds?ty=h" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Functional Nerds Patreon Page</a><br> <br> © 2021 Patrick Hester<br>
