Episode 615-With James Enge




The Functional Nerds Podcast show

Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Old-Moon-Quarterly-Magazine-Fantasy/dp/B0BYGNBHG6"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="https://jamesenge.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Enge</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Old-Moon-Quarterly-Magazine-Fantasy/dp/B0BYGNBHG6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EVIL HONEY</a>, a new Morlock Ambrosius short story.<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Old-Moon-Quarterly-Magazine-Fantasy/dp/B0BYGNBHG6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Old Moon Quarterly: Issue 3, Winter 2023</a>: Old Moon Quarterly is a small, independent online magazine devoted to publishing weird sword-and-sorcery fiction set in a historical paranormal setting or a secondary-world, with a focus on well-rounded characters driving strange action.<br> About EVIL HONEY: Morlock runs afoul of the god of bees and is forced to enter a society stained by evil and madness.<br> About <a href="https://jamesenge.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Enge</a>: James Enge, lives in northwest Ohio with his wife and a relentless canine researcher. He’s written Blood of Ambrose (shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award in 2010 and the Prix Imaginales in 2011), This Crooked Way, The Wolf Age, and A Tournament of Shadows, a trilogy comprising Morlock’s origin story. He’s also written a fair amount of short fiction, which has appeared in Black Gate, in the Stabby-Award-winning Blackguards, in ZNB anthologies such as Guilds &amp; Glaives, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and elsewhere.<br> In his day job, he teaches Latin and various kinds of mythology (classical myth, Norse myth, medieval legend, etc) at a medium-sized public university in Ohio.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * James: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Babel-Necessity-Violence-Translators-Revolution/dp/0063021439">Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution by R. F Kuang</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81199139">DUNE Part 1 (Netflix)</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/Midnight-Riot-Audiobook/B009CZNUGU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Midnight Riot: Rivers of London By Ben Aaronovitch, Narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jamesenge" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">James Enge on Mastodon</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/TracyATownsend" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tracy Townsend on the network formerly known as Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/atfmb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Patrick Hester on the network formerly known as 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> © 2024 Patrick Hester<br>