Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Ants-Grylladesh-Three-Antasy/dp/0062429795"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="http://clarkthomascarlton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clark T. Carlton</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Ants-Grylladesh-Three-Antasy/dp/0062429795" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THE GHOST ANTS OF GRYLLADESH</a>.<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Ants-Grylladesh-Three-Antasy/dp/0062429795" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THE GHOST ANTS OF GRYLLADESH</a>: The Ghost Ants of Grylladesh continues the story of an empire in ruins, vicious and mysterious usurpers, and a young man who would lead his people from hopeless squalor to a stable utopia.<br> In the Barley Lands to the East, the deformed and demented Emperor Volokop has blinded the hero Anand and sent him to Dranveria with a message for its rulers. But when Anand is captured by a mysterious people, the fate of his family and his new nation of Bee-Jor is suddenly in jeopardy.<br> Because Bee-Jor remains in chaos. In the South, starving refugees from Hulkren have overwhelmed Mound Palzhad and segregated into warring camps to fight for their very survival … with some descending into cannibalism. Beyond them, the roach riders of The Promised Clearing threaten a new conflict in a quest for more land. And in the West, a new peril arises from the Velvet Ant League, one not seen in a thousand generations.<br> Aiding all of these enemies is the deluded Queen Trellana, who has gathered the royal women of the East to march out of Bee-Jor and leave it vulnerable to attack.<br> The founding of Bee-Jor was Anand’s dream of a perfect society, but without their leader, is that all it ever will be: a dream?<br> About <a href="http://clarkthomascarlton.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clark T. Carlton</a>: Clark T Carlton is the son of a barefooted, Floridian cowboy and a beauty queen from the Land of Cotton who ventured North to raise their children in the long shadow of New York City. When he was a teenager, his family moved from a blue collar melting pot to a segregated and conservative enclave of Southern California, an event which forever altered his world view.<br> He studied English and Film at Boston University and UCLA and has worked as a screen and television writer, a journalist, and as a producer of reality television in addition to a thousand and one other professions. He has always had more blue than white in his collar.<br> His Antasy series of books began with Prophets of the Ghost Ants, followed up by THE PROPHET OF THE TERMITE GOD and Book 3 – THE GHOST ANTS OF GRYLLADESH, dropped at the end of June.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Clark: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Scientist-Wilson-Life-Nature/dp/038554555X">Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature by Richard Rhodes</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://youtu.be/YqmcFSCVxUU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Oddworld: Soulstorm (PlayStation 4/5)</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/clarktcarlton" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Clark T. Carlton 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>
