Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Some-Desperate-Glory-Emily-Tesh/dp/1250834988"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="https://emilytesh.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emily Tesh</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Some-Desperate-Glory-Emily-Tesh/dp/1250834988" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SOME DESPERATE GLORY</a>.<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Some-Desperate-Glory-Emily-Tesh/dp/1250834988" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SOME DESPERATE GLORY</a>: Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity.<br> They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.<br> Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, Kyr escapes from everything she’s known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.<br> About <a href="https://emilytesh.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emily Tesh</a>: Emily Tesh is the author of the Greenhollow Duology, which begins with Silver in the Wood and concludes with Drowned Country. Tesh is a winner of the Astounding Award and of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella. Some Desperate Glory, her first novel, is forthcoming in 2022 from tordotcom publishing.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Emily #1: <a href="https://animal-crossing.com/">Animal Crossing (Game)</a><br> * Emily #2: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mis%C3%A9rables-Novel-Victor-Hugo/dp/0449300021">Les Misérables: A Novel by Victor Hugo</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Network-Effect-Murderbot-Novel-Diaries/dp/1250229863">Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/NPCs-Audiobook/B00NHY147E" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NPCs by Drew Hayes</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.instagram.com/emilytesh/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Emily Tesh on Instagram</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> © 2023 Patrick Hester<br>
