Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Finna-Nino-Cipri/dp/1250245737"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="https://ninocipri.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nino Cipri</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Finna-Nino-Cipri/dp/1250245737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finna</a>.<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Finna-Nino-Cipri/dp/1250245737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finna</a>: When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store ? but not that one ? slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago.<br> To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.<br> About <a href="https://ninocipri.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nino Cipri</a>: Nino Cipri is a queer and trans/nonbinary writer, editor, and educator. A graduate of the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and University of Kansas’s MFA, Nino’s fiction has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, Lambda, Nebula, and Hugo Awards. A multidisciplinary artist, Nino has also written plays, screenplays, and radio features; performed as a dancer, actor, and puppeteer; and worked as a stagehand, bookseller, bike mechanic, and labor organizer.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Nino #1: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unity-Elly-Bangs/dp/1616963425" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unity by Elly Bangs</a><br> * Nino #2: <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80114225" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Erased (Netflix)</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Trial-Trolley-Dilemmas-Skybound-Happiness/dp/B07X5DV7T9">Trial by Trolley (Card Game)</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80241581" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Irregulars (Netflix)</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/ninocipri" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nino Cipri 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>
