Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Blood-Fall-Gods/dp/1250222648"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="http://www.ryanvanloan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ryan Van Loan</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Blood-Fall-Gods/dp/1250222648" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THE MEMORY IN THE BLOOD</a>.<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Blood-Fall-Gods/dp/1250222648" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THE MEMORY IN THE BLOOD</a>: When her quest to destroy the Gods began, Buc was a child of the streets. Now she is a woman of steel, shaped by gaining and losing power, tempered by love and betrayal, and honed to a fine edge by grief and her desire for vengeance.<br> A perilous, clandestine mission to a hidden library uncovers information that is key to destroying both the Dead Gods and their enemy, the Goddess Ciris. Ciris’s creation, Sin, who lives inside Buc, gives her superhuman abilities and tempts her with hints of even greater power. With that power, she could achieve almost anything?end the religious war tearing her world apart, remake society at a stroke?but the price would be the betrayal of everything she has fought for . . . and the man she loved would still be dead.<br> In the middle of this murderous, magical maelstrom, a coded message smuggled out of the heart of the Dead Gods’ cathedral reveals that the Dead Gods intend to destroy Ciris?and much of the world with her.<br> This. Will. Not. Stand.<br> If Buc has to destroy all Gods, eat the rich, and break the world’s economy to save the people, she will do it. Even if it costs her everything.<br> About <a href="http://www.ryanvanloan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ryan Van Loan</a>: Ryan Van Loan is an up and coming Science Fiction and Fantasy author. He started reading his Grandfather’s Reader’s Digest when he was four years old. Soon after, he read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer before eventually discovering science fiction and fantasy through the works of Robin McKinley, Robert Jordan, Stephen King and many more. He moved around a lot in his childhood from Montana to Georgia to Puerto Rico before finally ending up in Pennsylvania. Ryan served six years as a Sergeant in the United States Army Infantry (PA National Guard) where he served on the front lines of Afghanistan. All of that travel got into his blood and Ryan has traveled around the world with his wife, wandering Caribbean island haunts, exploring the palaces and cathedrals of Europe, and hiking with elephants in the rain forests of Southeast Asia. When he’s not traveling Ryan enjoys hiking, soccer (football), tabletop gaming, weightlifting (with his personal best coming from deadlifting three times his body weight), and all things culinary. Ryan’s debut novel, The Sin in the Steel (Tor Books), Book One in the Fall of the Gods series came out on July 21, 2020. Today, Ryan lives in northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two dogs where he’s hard at work on his next novel.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Ryan: <a href="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/all-creatures-great-and-small/#">All Creatures Great and Small (PBS)</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/110327/lords-waterdeep">Lords of Waterdeep (Game)</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://youtu.be/xDu1Q9r6HDo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Old Man (FX)</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanVanLoan" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ryan Van Loan 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>
