The Functional Nerds Podcast

In the 52nd episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Steve & Andy Scearce, authors of Unknown Transmission and Station 151. We also chat about: World Fantasy, Farscape, Rigor Amortis, serialized fiction, collaboration, writing, dystopian future, being brothers, podiobooks, Cthulhurotica an Dagan Books. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Grindin' Man (excerpt) - Pinetop Perkins Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

051 The Functional Nerds - Ari Marmell In the 51st episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & Special Guest CoHost Jaym Gates sit down to chat with Ari Marmell, author of The Goblin Corps & The Conqueror's Shadow, available from PYR and Spectra respectively. We also chat about: Role playing games, creative writing, short story writing, New Orleans, Dungeons and Dragons, Magic the Gathering, Corvis Rebaine, Broken Time Blues, the World of Warcraft, Blackgate Magazine, eBook publishing and the Babel Clash blog. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Streets of Bakersfield (excerpt) - Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

050 The Functional Nerds - Stephen Deas In the 50th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Stephen Deas, author of The Adamantine Palace & The King of the Crags, available from ROC. We also chat about: Conan, pulps, sword & sorcery, dragons, ROC, art, cover art, bookstores and Doctor Who. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

In the 49th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Carrie Cuinn, editor and publisher for Dagan Books & author Don Pizarro about the new anthology, Cthulhurotica. We also chat about: short story writing, Dagan books, independent publishing, Twitter, Lovecraft, weird tales, tentacle porn, sex, anime, Rigor Amortis, The deep Ones, romance and plushie Cthulhu... Links: Carrie Cuinn Carrie Cuinn on Twitter Don Pizarro DonP on Twitter Dagan Books Dagan Books on Twitter Cthulurotica Cthulhurotica on Twitter © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Transformers (Excerpt) - John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

In the 48th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Jason Sanford, author of Memoria, available in Interzone Magazine. We also chat about: short story writing, novels, "Millisent Ka Plays In Real Time", Interzone Magazine, inspiration, music, Lawrence Welk, Hank Williams, Ghosts, Philip Jose Farmer and Andy Kaufman. Links: Author's Website: http://www.jasonsanford.com/ Follow Jason Sanford on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jasonsanford Find Jason Sanford's Fiction on the web: http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/fiction.html Interzone Magazine © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Angry Robot - John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

In the 47th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with John Jackson Miller, author of Star Wars: Knight Errant We also chat about: ebooks, The Star Wars Role Playing Game, Marvel Comics, Shadows of the Empire, Star Trek, the Crimson Dynamo, Lost Tribe of the Sith, DC Comics, comic book art, Overstreet, what is and isn't cannon, Jedi and The Sith. Links: Author's Website: http://www.farawaypress.com/ Follow John Jackson Miller on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jjmfaraway Find John jackson Miller comics from Dark Horse: http://www.darkhorse.com/Search/John%20Jackson%20Miller © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Imperial March (Excerpt) Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

In the 46th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Harry Turtledove, author of Atlantis and Other places, now available from ROC.  With Harry we chat about: Atlantis, alternate history stories, novellas, ecology, war, twitter, The Byzantine Empire, the 24 hour news cycle & immigration. Links: Unofficial Author's Website: http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/turtledove.html © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Southern Cross (Excerpt) - The Bluegrass Tribute to Classic Rock Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

In the 45th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Mark Stevenson, author of An Optimist's Tour of the Future, a new book available from Avery. With Mark, we discuss: the future, humor, science, comedy, critical thinking, the world, global warming, stand up comedy, space, the ley nerd, space ports, technology, nanotechnology and answering the question - What's next? Links: Mark Stevenson's Website: http://anoptimiststourofthefuture.com/ © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio New Releases - John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

In the 44th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Cherie Priest, author of 'Bloodshot', now available from Spectra.  With Cherie, we discuss: urban fantasy, horror, southern gothic, TOR, Bantam, Spectra, writing, daily wordcount, Subterranean Press, humor in writing, social media, LiveJournal, blogging, Chattanooga TN, the Internet, Twitter, Vampires and Wil Wheaton. Links: Author's Website: http://www.cheriepriest.com/ © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Unicorn Pegasus Kitten - John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast!

043 The Functional Nerds - Tim Akers In the 43rd episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with Tim Akers, author of 'The Horns of Ruin'.  We also discuss: World Fantasy, World Cons, PYR books, Solaris, 1st person narrative, gender roles, Paladins, pally specs, video games, role playing games, White Wolf, the World of Warcraft, bubble-hearthing, steampunk, religion and culture. Links: Author's Website: http://shadoth.blogspot.com/ © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Comfortably Numb (Excerpt) - Bluegrass Tribute to Classic Rock Vol 2 Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

042 The Functional Nerds In the 42nd episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & John Anealio welcome Jody Lynn Nye, author of Dragons Deal (W/Robert Asprin), The Magic Touch, Strong-Arm Tactics, An Unexpected Apprentice & A Forthcoming Wizard. This week we discuss: Robert Asprin, Skype, Bill Fawcett, the Myth adventures, the Dragon series, collaboration, Anne McCaffrey, License Invoked, ACE books, the Choose Your Adventure books, Pern, Xanth, humor in Fantasy, An Unexpected Apprentice, Tolkein & The Lord of the Rings. Links: Author's Website: http://www.sff.net/people/jodynye/ © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Eye of the Tiger (Excerpt) - Bluegrass Tribute to Classic Rock Vol 2 Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

041 The Functional Nerds In the 41st episode of the Functional Nerds, John & Patrick travel to Tel Aviv (via the Internet, of course), to chat with Lavie Tidhar, author of The Bookman, An Occupation of Angels, Cloud Permutations, HebrewPunk and The Tel Aviv Dossier. With steaming cups of coffee, we chat with Lavie about: Angry Robot Books, The Bookman, Tel Aviv, Israel, South Africa, Jewish vampires, Transylvania, golems, the World SF Blog, Charles A. Tan, anthologies, Apex Books, Western v Eastern cultural perceptions, poker, Casino Royale, James Bond & Twitter. Links: http://lavietidhar.wordpress.com/ © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

040 The Functional Nerds In the 40th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome to the show singer, songwriter, record producer, science fiction author, media/pop culture commentator and all around cool guy - Paul Levinson!.  We chat with Paul about: Hats (cuz hat's are cool), science fiction, music, doo wap, The Bronx, the Kingston Trio, Spun Dreams, The New Outlook, Twice upon a Rhyme, songwriting, music producing, college, writing, The Village Voice, teaching, Analog Magazine, radio, Murry The K, Wolfman Jack, New New Media, Amazon, iTunes, TuneCore, ReverbNation & Les Paul. Links: http://paullevinson.info Featuring Original Music by: Paul Levinson: Unbelievable (excerpt) Paul Levinson & Linda Kaplan: Not Yet Ready to Say Goodbye (Excerpt) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

039 The Functional Nerds In the 39th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome Adele Wearing, from the Un:Bound blogzine to chat about their new video edition.  We also chat about: science fiction, time zones, reviews, urban fantasy, epic fantasy, blogging, TOR, Angry Robot Books, Pan/MacMillan books, video production, Adobe Premiere, iLife, iMovie, ZOMBIES, terror4fun.com, youtube, Netflix, the Roku player & TiVo. Links: Un:Bound http://hagelrat.blogspot.com/ Un:Bound Video Edition http://unboundve.blogspot.com/ Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog John Anealio: Unicorn Pegasus Kitten (Excerpt) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!

038 The Functional Nerds In the 38th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome Joe Schreiber, author of Red Harvest, Death Troopers, No Doors, No Windows, Chasing the Dead & Eat the Dark to discuss all things Star Wars. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog John Anealio: The Millennium Falcon for Christmas (Excerpt) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site!