Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Satellites-Sarah-Pinsker/dp/1984802607"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="https://sarahpinsker.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Pinsker</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Satellites-Sarah-Pinsker/dp/1984802607" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Are Satellites</a>.<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Satellites-Sarah-Pinsker/dp/1984802607" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Are Satellites</a>: Val and Julie just want what’s best for their kids, David and Sophie. So when teenage son David comes home one day asking for a Pilot, a new brain implant to help with school, they reluctantly agree. This is the future, after all.<br> Soon, Julie feels mounting pressure at work to get a Pilot to keep pace with her colleagues, leaving Val and Sophie part of the shrinking minority of people without the device.<br> Before long, the implications are clear, for the family and society: get a Pilot or get left behind. With government subsidies and no downside, why would anyone refuse? And how do you stop a technology once it’s everywhere? Those are the questions Sophie and her anti-Pilot movement rise up to answer, even if it puts them up against the Pilot’s powerful manufacturer and pits Sophie against the people she loves most.<br> About <a href="https://sarahpinsker.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Pinsker</a>: Sarah Pinsker is the author of over fifty works of short fiction, including the novelette “Our Lady of the Open Road,” winner of the Nebula Award in 2016. Her novelette “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,” was the Sturgeon Award winner in 2014. Her fiction has been published in magazines including Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Uncanny and in numerous anthologies and year’s bests. Her stories have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, French, and Italian, among other languages, and have been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Eugie, and World Fantasy Awards.<br> Sarah’s first collection, the Philip K Dick Award winning Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories, was published by Small Beer Press in March 2019, and her first novel, A Song For A New Day, was published by Penguin/Random House/Berkley in September 2019. Her latest book is We Are Satellites, out in May 2021.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Sarah: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=starberry+season&oq=starberry+season&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i433i457j0i402j0i10l7.2862j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Strawberry Season</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=ethnic+food+aisle&ei=ry-jYLLWPJa2tAaj0IXQAw&oq=ethnic+food+a&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMYADICCAAyBQgAEMkDMgUIABCSAzICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAAyAggAMgIIADICCAA6BwgAEEcQsAM6BQgAEJECOgsILhCxAxDHARCjAjoICC4QxwEQowI6BQgAELEDOggIABCxAxCDAToECAAQQzoICC4QxwEQrwE6BAguEEM6DgguEMcBEKMCEJECEJMCOggIABCxAxCRAjoOCC4QsQMQgwEQxwEQowI6AgguOgUILhCRAjoHCC4QsQMQQzoKCC4QsQMQgwEQQzoHCAAQsQMQQ1DKnwNYje0DYMb_A2gDcAF4AIABmAaIAa0SkgEKMTEuMy4xLjYtMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrIAQjAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz">The Ethnic Food Aisle</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://www.hbo.com/mare-of-easttown" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mare of Easttown (HBO)</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahPinsker" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sarah Pinsker 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>
