The Functional Nerds
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Podcast Description
Functional Nerds is the new podcast from author/blogger Patrick Hester and Musician/Blogger John Anealio focusing on science fiction and fantasy media: television, film, comics, and new media such as fan films, audio dramas, online animated comics and more, technology, gadgets and all things Apple as well as music and the occasional video game.
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Episode 089 – Chuck Wendig and Daniel Polansky | In episode 89 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Chuck Wendig and Daniel Polansky. About Chuck: Chuck Wendig is equal parts novelist, screenwriter, and game designer. He is the author of the novels DOUBLE DEAD, BLACKBIRDS, and MOCKINGBIRD. In addition, he's got a metric boatload of writing-related e-books available, including the popular 500 WAYS TO BE A BETTER WRITER. He currently lives in the wilds of Pennsyltucky with wife, dog, and newborn progeny. About Daniel: Daniel Polansky is the author of the new LOW TOWN fantasy series. Book 1 was published in August 2011. Daniel was born near Baltimore, Maryland. Visit www.danielpolansky.com for more. Links: Chuck Wendig (author's website) Chuck on Twitter Daniel Polansky (author's website) Daniel on Twitter © 2012 Patrick Hester & John Anealio This episode features original music by John Anealio. | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 088 – Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young | In episode 88 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young. About Andrew Mayne: Recognized as one of the most creative innovators in magic, Andrew has produced over 30 books and videos on the art of magic. His website can be found at ShockMagic.com About Justin Robert Young: A graduate of Syracuse University, Justin has worked at several major metropolitan daily newspapers including “The South Florida Sun-Sentinel” of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and “The Morning Call” of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Links: Andrew Mayne (books) Andrew Mayne (blog) Andrew Mayne (Twitter) Justin Robert Young (iTricks.com) Justin Robert Young (TWiT.tv) Justin Robert Young (Twitter) © 2012 Patrick Hester & John Anealio This podcast contains original music by John Anealio. | 1/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 087 – Peter Brett & Myke Cole | In episode 87 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome back Peter V. Brett and Myke Cole. Links: Myke Cole (author's website) Peter V. Brett (author's website) Myke on Twitter Peter on Twitter © 2012 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast features original music by John Anealio & an excerpt of Boxcar Boogie performed by Dr. John | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 086 – John Hlinko | In episode 86 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome John Hlinko to talk about Share, Retweet and Repeat - a 'guidebook' to optimizing your social media and promoting your message. About John Hlinko: As a youngster, John Hlinko never dreamed he would one day record a Grammy-winning duet with country music legend Willie Nelson. And indeed, it never happened. But he has been long recognized as an innovator and “Buzz Czar” on the grassroots marketing front, using a combination of emerging technology and creative communications to achieve maximum results within extremely constrained budgets. Hlinko has worked with some of the biggest breakout viral success stories, starting with MoveOn.org in its earliest days, and continuing up to a “draft Obama” effort to build support for Barack Obama in advance of his presidential run. He is the founder of “Left Action,” a network of more than a million progressive activists (LeftAction.com). Hlinko is also the author of the forthcoming book, Share, Retweet, Repeat: Get Your Message Read and Spread, to be published in early 2012. Links: John Hlinko on Facebook Share, Retweet and Repeat © 2012 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast contains original music by John Anealio. | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 085 – Samuel Montgomery-Blinn and John DeNardo | In episode 85 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Samuel Montgomery-Blinn and John DeNardo into the super secret Functional Nerds lair to chat about nerdy audio stuff like audio books and spotify. About Samuel Montgomery-Blinn: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn is a husband, father, and software engineer and speculative fiction magazine publisher from Durham, NC, with an abiding love of audiobooks. His blog is a completely unaffiliated blog and guide to what's worth listening to in the world of science fiction and fantasy audiobooks and podcasts, with a focus on what's coming to Audible.com's Science Fiction and Fantasy section. About John DeNardo: John is an avid reader and reviewer. (See John's review criteria.) His book reading comes second only to his book buying, which some (including John himself) might call compulsive. (We often use the B-word.) His frequent jaunts to the local bookstores are legendary in his own mind. Although John reads an occasional fantasy/mystery/non-fiction book, his tastes lean heavily toward science fiction. John's tastes within any genre vary, but he is fond of classic sf even though he has a hit-and-miss experience with classic award-winning sf. John also likes to alternate novel-length fiction with shorter works, so he frequently reads anthologies between reading sessions. John's favorite authors tend to be Golden Age authors like Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov etc., but he also likes the new kids on the block like Alastair Reynolds, John Scalzi, etc. Links: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (website) BullSpec Magazine John DeNardo (website) Kirkus Reviews Samuel on twitter JohnD on twitter © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast features music by John Anealio. | 12/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 084 – Karin Lowachee and Gabrielle Gantz | In Episode 84 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Karin Lowachee and Gabrielle Gantz. About Karin: Karin was born in South America, grew up in Canada, and worked in the Arctic. Her first novel WARCHILD won the 2001 Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. Both WARCHILD (2002) and her third novel CAGEBIRD (2005) were finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award. CAGEBIRD won the Prix Aurora Award in 2006 for Best Long-Form Work in English and the Spectrum Award also in 2006. Her second novel BURNDIVE debuted at #7 on the Locus Bestseller List. Her books have been translated into French, Hebrew, and Japanese. Her current fantasy novel, THE GASLIGHT DOGS, was published through Orbit Books USA in April 2010. About Gabrielle: Gabrielle Gantz is a book publicist by day and raging fangirl by night (and early morning). Instead of doing normal social things she reads and attends literary events. In the past, Gabrielle has contributed to the Portland Book Review. She currently conducts author interviews for The Faster Times and The Nervous Breakdown. Gabrielle’s book interests include (but are not limited to): literary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, philosophy, and technology. Links: Karin Lowachee (author's website) Karin on Twitter Gabrielle Gantz (blogs) Gabrielle on Twitter © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast features original music by John Anealio. | 12/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 083 – Cherie Priest and Sam Sykes | In episode 83 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Cherie Priest and Sam Sykes. About Cherie: Priest is a Florida native, born in Tampa in 1975. She graduated from Forest Lake Academy in Apopka, Florida in 1993. She moved around quite a bit as a child of an Army father, living in many places such as Florida, Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee. She moved around regularly until college. In 2001 she left the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with an M.A. in Rhetoric/Professional writing, and in 1998 she graduated with a B.A. from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee. Priest lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee for twelve years. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington with her husband and her cat. About Sam: Sam Sykes is the author of The Aeons’ Gate trilogy, a vast and sprawling story of adventure, demons, madness and carnage. Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature. Sam currently lives in the United States with his two hounds and, at any given time, is probably yelling at something inanimate. Tome of the Undergates is his first book, but far from his last. At 25, Sam Sykes is in an excellent position to provide entertainment while other authors are dying from various infections and stress-related illnesses. Sam Sykes looks forward to being one of the sole providers of fantasy entertainment, assuming no other authors are actually discovered in the next forty years. On the list of topics covered: Skyrim Batman: Arkham City Google+ Links: Cherie Priest (website) Sam Sykes (website) Cherie on Twitter Sam on Twitter © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast features original music by John Anealio | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 082 – Matt Forbeck and Jay Garmon | In episode 82 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome author Matt Forbeck and professional geek Jay Garmon to the super-secret underground lair to talk about nerdy things. On the list of topics: Batman: Arkham City Garageband for ioS devices Kickstarter The Avengers movie Links: Matt Forbeck (website) Jay Garmon (website) Matt on Twitter Jay on Twitter © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast features original music by John Anealio | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 081 – Ed Lazellari | In episode 81 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome TOR author Ed Lazellari to talk about his new book, Awakenings. From TOR's website: EDWARD LAZELLARI has worked as an illustrator and graphic artist, doing projects for Marvel Entertainment, DC Comics, and Jim Henson Productions. His short story, “The Date,” won Playboy magazine’s prestigious college fiction contest in 1999. Lazellari lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. Awakenings is his first novel. Links: Ed Lazellari (author's website) Awakenings (Amazon) Ed on Twitter Ed on Facebook © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast features original music by John Anealio. | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 080 – Julia Sherred | In Episode 80 of the Functional Nerd Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Julia Sherred from the Geeky Pleasures Radio Show. From her website: Confirmed to be a “Geek God” by some online quiz and dubbed “The Queen of Geek” by many of her fans, Julia “Jules” Sherred is a mother, writer, author, radio personality, blogger, gamer, tech enthusiast, science nerd, sci-fi and fantasy freak, hard core Trekker, has an unnatural obsession with Optimus Prime and so much more. She emerged from the womb fully embracing her geeky tendencies, with a book on Astrophysics in one hand and a deck of cards in the other. Growing up, games were always an important part of her family, including family board game nights, Christmas family poker games and trying to pry the ColecoVision® and later NES controllers from her mother’s hands. She has now passed on this tradition to her own children and is raising the next generation of geeks and gamers. Links: Julia Sherred's Geeky Pleasures John's Episode of Geeky Pleasures Patrick's Episode of Geeky Pleasures The Look247 Lupus Foundation Canada Lupus Foundation of America The Lupus Research Institute © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast contains original music by John Anealio | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 079 – KV Johansen | In episode 79 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester & John Anealio welcome PYR author KV Johansen. KV's new book, Blackdog, is one of the subjects discussed in this episode. Links: KV Johansen (author's website) Blackdog © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This episode features original music by John Anealio | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 078 – Bryan Thomas Schmidt | In episode 78 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Bryan Thomas Schmidt, author of the new novel - The Worker Prince. Links: Bryan Thomas Schmidt (author's website) Bryan on Twitter The Worker Prince © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio Support the podcast - tell your friends, subscribe via iTunes or click the donate link! | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 077 – Jeff and Ann VanderMeer | On this week's episode of the Functional Nerds Podcast, John DeNardo sits in for Patrick, and joins John Anealio in welcoming Jeff and Ann VanderMeer to the show. Links: Jeff VanderMeer The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities: Exhibits, Oddities, Images, and Stories from Top Authors and Artists ODD? Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Donations are always welcome - just click the 'donate' button in the sidebar. | 10/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 076 – Rigor Amortis Panel | In Episode 076 of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome John Remy, Andy Penn Romine, Steven Scearce and Galen Dara to celebrate the re-release of the Rigor Amortis anthology. Links: Rigor Amortis John Remy Andy Penn Romine Steven Scearce Galen Dara © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 075 – Andrew P. Mayer | In the 75th episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Andrew P Mayer, author of The Falling Machine, Book One of The Society of Steam, available from PYR. Links: Andrew P Mayer (author's website) Andrew on Twitter The Falling Machine (Amazon) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 10/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 074 – Peter Giglio | In episode 74 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome author and editor Peter Giglio. When Peter Giglio isn't writing, he plays with fire, juggles clowns, and dirty dances with the benevolent ghost of Patrick Swayze. Thankfully, he writes all the time. He is the co-author of "The Better Half: A Love Story", appearing in the anthology Werewolves and Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within, edited by John Skipp. His first novel, ANON, will soon be published by Hydra Publications. And he has two e-books on the horizon: A SPARK IN THE DARKNESS from Etopia Press, and BALANCE from MuseItUp Publishing. Several of his short stories will soon appear in anthologies from Pill Hill Press and Library of the Living Dead. With Scott Bradley, he is working on the screen adaptation of a well known short story and several other classified projects. Peter Giglio (on Twitter) Peter Giglio (author's Website) Peter Giglio (Facebook) © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This episode features original music by John Anealio | 9/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 073 – Lev Grossman | In episode 73 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat with Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians and The Magician King, both available from Viking. Links: Lev Grossman (author's website) The Magicians The Magician King Lev Grossman on Twitter Lev Grossman on Facebook Lev Grossman at Time Magazine © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio This podcast features original music by John Anealio | 9/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 072 – Lisa Paitz Spindler | In episode 72 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio take some time to chat about nerdy things for a change. These include: what we're reading, Google +, Twitter, Tweetdeck, Facebook, the projects we're working on, etc and so on. Later, John brings us an interview with Lisa Paitz Spindler, author of The Spiral Path. Links: Lisa Paitz Spindler (author's site) Lisa on Twitter Lisa on Facebook The Danger Gal Blog © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio This episode contains original music by John Anealio. | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 071 – Moses Siregar III | In Episode 71 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio sit down to chat with Author and fellow podcaster, Moses Siregar III. Moses' debut novel, The Back Gods War, is generating a lot of buzz within the SFF community, and we chat with Moses about the book, about self-promotion, do it yourself publishing and much more. Links: Moses Siregar III (author's website) Moses Siregar III (twitter) Adventures in SciFi Publishing (podcast) The Black Gods War (debut novel) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Featuring Original Music by John Anealio | 9/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 070 – Chris Hart | In Episode 070 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat with author/artist Chris Hart. Chris has penned several 'how to draw' books throughout the years. His latest, Basic Anatomy for the Manga Artist, is available right now. Basic Anatomy for the Manga Artist: Everything You Need to Start Drawing Authentic Manga Characters This most basic and complete book on manga anatomy ever written is targeted to beginners, the widest segment of manga fans. The latest from bestselling author Chris Hart is not your father's anatomy book, it's an anatomy book strictly for the manga artist. Packed with dynamic step-by-step demonstrations detailing how to draw correctly proportioned manga faces and bodies, plus lots of tips and tricks of the trade, this practical guide has everything aspiring beginners need to start drawing convincing manga characters. Paperback: 160 pages Publisher: Watson-Guptill; Original edition (June 21, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0823047709 ISBN-13: 978-0823047703 Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio This episode features original music written and performed by John Anealio | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 069 – Charles Day | In Episode 69 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat with author and small press owner Charles Day. Links: Charles Day (Author's Website) Evil Jester Press (Fiction Imprint) © 2011 Patrick Hester and John Anealio Featuring original music by John Anealio. | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 068 – JC Hutchins | In the 68th episode of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester & John Anealio talk with freelance storyteller J.C. Hutchins. Links: Author's Website JC Hutchins on Twitter JC Hutchins on Facebook © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Featuring original music by John Anealio. | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 067 – Patrick D’Orazio | In the 67th episode of the Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat with author Patrick D'Orazio. Links: Author's Website Author's Twitter © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Featuring original music by John Anealio. | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 066 – Kim Harrison | In episode 66 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester & John Anealio sit down to chat with author Kim Harrison, whose The Hollows series spans nine novels and a new graphic novel. Links: Kim Harrison (Author's Website) Burning Bunnies (Kim's Twitter feed) | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 065 – Timothy Zahn | In Episode 65 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio talk all things Star Wars with the man who started the expanded universe, Timothy Zahn, to discuss his new book: Choices of One! Music in the episode: Sundog (Excerpt) by John Anealio George R. R. Martin is not Your Bitch (Excerpt) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 7/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 064 – Myke Cole | In episode 64 of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio sit down to chat with Author Myke Cole about his upcoming Shadow Ops series from Ace. Links: Myke Cole (authors website) Author's Blog Bibliography Check out Maphook.com - our new sponsor Music in the episode: Sundog (Excerpt) by John Anealio Angry Robot-Remix (Excerpt) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 7/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 063 – Sandra Wickham | In episode 63 of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio sit down to chat with Author and Fitness Nerd Sandra Wickham. With Sandra, we discuss: fitness, water, carbs, discipline, working out, writing, word count, staying fit, exercise, calories, tracking your goals with apps, the InkPunks, being the Fitness Nerd, competition and transitioning into writing. Links: Sandra Wickham (authors website) InkPunks Blog Fitness Nerd Sandra Wickham Fitness Welcome our new sponsor – MapHook.com. Click the link, download the app – it’s pretty cool. Music in the episode: Sundog (Excerpt) by John Anealio Angry Robot-Remix (Excerpt) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 6/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 062 – Jon Sprunk | In episode 62 of the Functional Nerds, John Anealio chats with PYR Author Jon Sprunk about his new book, Shadow's Lure. Links: Jon Sprunk (Author Site) Shadow's Lure Jon Sprunk (Twitter) Pyr Books Patrick and John also chat about other stuff. Promise. Welcome our new sponsor – MapHook.com. Click the link, download the app - it's pretty cool. Music in the episode: Geek Dad (Excerpt) by John Anealio Angry Robot-Singularity Remix (Excerpt) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 061 – Ken Denmead | In episode 61 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Ken Denmead, author of the new Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun, and publisher of Wired's Geek Dad blog and podcast. This week we chat about: Wired, Geek Dad, Borderlands, Star Trek, blogging, RP games, books, Geek Mom and the Geek Dad's Guide to Weekend Fun. Links: Wired's Geek Dad blog Geek Dad Podcast Geek Mom blog Geek Dad Books Patrick and John also chat about Apple's new iCloud service. Welcome this week to our new sponsor - MapHook.com. Music in the episode: Geek Dad (Excerpt) by John Anealio Angry Robot-Singularity Remix (Excerpt) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 6/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 060 – Mur Lafferty | In the 60th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome back Mur Lafferty, author, podcast pioneer and all around awesome person. John and Mur chat at Balticon about: kickstarter campaigns, crowd funding, artists and patronage, do it yourself publishing, I Should Be Writing, getting published and epublishing. Links: The Murverse (Authors website) I Should Be Writing (Podcast) Heaven (eBook) Hell (eBook) © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in the episode: I Should Be Writing (Theme) by John Anealio Angry Robot (Remix) by John Anealio and The Cherry Men Support The Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar & send us a couple bucks, or tell your friends about us. | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 059 – Steve Lawson | In the 59th episode of the Functional Nerds, John Anealio chats with solo bassist Steve Lawson. From his website, Steve Lawson is: a solo bassist who spends a lot of his time making very unbasslike noises. an ambient experimenter who likes pop tunes too much to go strictly soundscape, but is way too atmospheric to sit comfortably in the ‘instrumental rock’ category. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Cylon #6 (excerpt) by John Anealio A Year Afloat (excerpt) by Steve Lawson Thank you so much for the Parsec Nomination – you folks rock! Support the Functional Nerds – Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast! | 5/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 058 – Brian Malow | In Episode 58 of the Parsec-nominated Functional Nerds podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat with Science Comedian Brian Malow. We discuss: science, science fiction, comedy, domain names, comedy clubs, finding the right audience, Google, Time.com, Wired.com and Rachel Rosen. Brian Malow (website) Brian's Twitter Brian's Facebook © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Rachel Rosen (excerpt) by John Anealio Thank you so much for the Parsec Nomination – you folks rock! Support the Functional Nerds – Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site, visit our CafePress.com site to buy some merchandise or tell a friend about this podcast! | 5/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 057 – Andy Romine | In the 57th episode of the Parsec nominated Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio sit down to chat with our very own Booze Nerd, Andy Romine! Andy is an author with works published in the Rigor Amortis anthology and the upcoming Broken Time Blues anthology. With Andy we discuss such diverse topics as: the World Fantasy convention, Rigor Amortis, Jaym Gates, Erika Holt, the Ink Punks, booze, mixing cocktails, the World Horror convention, being the Booze Nerd and Irish Hillbillies. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (excerpt) by John Anealio Summer Glau (excerpt) by John Anealio Thank you so much for the Parsec Nomination – you folks rock! Support the Functional Nerds – Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast! | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 056 – Peter Orullian | In the 56th episode of the Parsec nominated (SQUEEEE!) Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio sit down to chat with TOR author and musician Peter Orullian. Peter also has a pretty nifty dayjob working for the folks over at XBOX, so we had a lot of fun chatting with about such diverse topics as: TOR, epic fantasy, book series, tropes, The Unremembered, writing, music, moral ambiguity in characters, Microsoft XBOX, progressive rock, the concept album and vocalization. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (excerpt) by John Anealio Pronbot (excerpt) by John Anealio Thank you so much for the Parsec Nomination - you folks rock! Support the Functional Nerds – Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast! | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 055 – Tom Brislin | 055 The Functional Nerds - Tom Brislin In the 55th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester kicks back while John Anealio interviews musician Tom Brislin. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Unicorn Pegasus Kitten (Excerpt) - John Anealio The Future (excerpt) - Spiraling Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast! | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 054 – Devo Spice | In the 54th episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester kicks back while John Anealio visits Devo Spice to talk about his new album. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: George R. R. Martin is not your bitch (excerpt) - John Anealio Platform Wars (excerpt) - Devo Spice | 4/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 053 – Paul S. Kemp | In the 53rd episode of the Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester & Lisa Paitz Spindler sit down to chat with Paul S. Kemp, author of the new Star Wars novel: Deceived. We also chat about: Star Wars, Forgotten Realms, Scrivener, outlining, the writing process, the heroes journey, law school, Erevis Cale, Wizards of the Coast, role playing games, R. A. Salvatore, The Clone Wars & Battlefield Earth. Later, Patrick chats with Lisa about her debut novel, The Spiral Path. © 2011 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music in this episode: Sundog (Excerpt) - John Anealio Bohemian Rhapsody (excerpt) - Rockapella Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site or tell a friend about this podcast! | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 052 – Steve & Andy Scearce | 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! | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 051 – Ari Marmell | 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! | 3/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Functional Nerds 050 Stephen Deas | 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! | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Functional Nerds 049 Carrie Cuinn Don Pizarro | 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! | 3/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Functional Nerds 048 Jason Sanford | 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! | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Functional Nerds 047 John Jackson Miller | 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! | 2/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 046 Harry Turtledove | 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! | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 045 Mark Stevenson | 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! | 2/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 044 Cherie Priest | 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! | 2/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 043 Tim Akers | 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! | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 042 Jody Lynn Nye | 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! | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 041 Lavie Tidhar | 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! | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 040 Paul Levinson | 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! | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 039 Adele Wearing | 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! | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 038 Joe Schreiber | 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! | 12/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 037 Clay & Susan Griffith | 037 The Functional Nerds In the 37th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome Clay & Susan Griffith, co-authors of The Greyfriar: Vampire Empire Book One to discuss: steampunk, the Victorian Era, alternate history, Scotland, Highlander, body snatchers (the real ones, not the made up ones from the movies), comic books, graphic novels, Kolchak The Night Stalker, Alan Quartermain, pulps, collaborating as writers and as a married couple, PYR books & Lou Anders. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog John Anealio: Is A Chupacabra Kosher? (Excerpt) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site! | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 036 Kay Kenyon | 036 The Functional Nerds In the 36th episode of the Functional Nerds, John Anealio sits down for the final interview from World Fantasy 2010 - Kay Kenyon, author of Bright of the Sky, A World too Near, City Without End and Prince of Storms. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog John Anealio: The Return of Titus Quinn John Anealio: Batman Smells John Anealio: The Millenium Falcon for Christmas © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site! | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 035 James Enge & Blake Charlton | 035 The Functional Nerds In the 35th episode of the Functional Nerds, we welcome back Blake Charlton & James Enge to talk dyslexia, Latin, Greek & why other languages have fewer folks suffering from dyslexia versus English, then break out into a fantastic chat on music, instruments and how language plays a huge part in how music has developed over centuries, then onto mythology and how it influences Fantasy works today, then into video games, comic books, YA novels, Spellbound, The Wolf Age and much, much more. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog John Anealio: NaNoWriMo (Dance Remix) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site! | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 034 Lucy A. Snyder | 034 The Functional Nerds In our 34th episode, John sits down to chat with Lucy A. Snyder, author of Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress and the forthcoming Switchblade Goddess while Patrick runs off with DeNardo to drool over the books stacked in the dealers room at World Fantasy. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio: Sundog © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site! | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 033 Kevin J Anderson & Shawn Gordon | 033 The Functional Nerds In our 33rd episode, John & I welcome Shawn Gordon & Kevin J. Anderson. With Shawn & Kevin we discuss the creation of the Roswell Six albums, Prog Rock Records, James LaBrie, Dreamtheater, John Payne, Asia, Rush, Styx, Neil Peart, Ressurection Lane, Mercury Records, MySpace, Dune, Roswell Six, Erik Norlander, Lana Lane, Steve Walsh, Kansas, A Line in the Sand, Beyond the Horizon & the concept album. Featuring Original Music by: Roswell Six: Here Be Monsters (used with permission) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site! | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 032 Jim Kakalios | 032 The Functional Nerds In our 32nd episode, John & I welcome Jim Kakalios, author of The Physics of Superheroes and The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics. We also discuss: The Big Bang Theory (tv show), physics, Watchmen, getting it 'right' in the movies, Iron Man, Jurassic Park, UNIX, The Flash, jetpakcs (and why I can't have one - DAMMIT!), Karen Burnham, cellphones, laptops, computers, energy versus ideas, Erwin Schrodinger, Amazing Stories & The Internet. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Page 123 (Mix 4) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site! | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 031 Carolyn Crane | 031 The Functional Nerds In our 31st episode, John & I welcome Carolyn Crane, author of Mind Games & Double Cross, available from Spectra. With Carolyn in tow, we discussed: author websites, geocities, twitter, urban fantasy, marketing, cover art, product packaging (when it comes to books), 1st person prose, tense, Anne Rice, Jim Butcher, Laurel K. Hamilton, Ian Fleming, Kelly Armstrong, querying agents, freelancing as a writer, social media & balancing your online presence with your work load as a writer. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site! | 11/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 030 Jaym Gates and Erika Holt | 030 The Functional Nerds In our 30th episode, John & I welcome Jaym Gates & Erika Holt as our latest recruits in the 3rd Nerd Army! Jaym & Erika share details of their new anthology, Rigor Amortis; a collection of stories about Romanace, Revenge, Risk & Raunch - with Zombies. We also tackle topics like: erotica, Clarkesworld, Absolute XPress, marketing, promotion, podcasting, Readercon, 'Jaym the Zombie erotica gal', conventions, World Fantasy 2010, Twitter and the community it builds & Star Trek fanfic/erotica. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Sarene © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Support the Functional Nerds - Click the donate button in the sidebar of our site! | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 029 Neil Clarke | 029 The Functional Nerds In our 29th episode, John & I welcome Neil Clarke in as our most recent 3rd Nerd! Neil is the Publisher / Editor of Clarkesworld magazine as well as the owner of Wyrm Publishing. In this episode, we chat about: Clarkesworld Magazine, the Hugo award, online magazines, online bookstores, the slush pile, what is a 'semiprozine', Amazon's Associate Program, podcasts, advertising, eBooks, ePublishing, Kindle, Wordpress, Digital Blasphemy, cover art, Balticon, World Fantasy 2010 & Wyrm Publishing. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Blue Lego © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 10/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 028 Fred Kiesche and Mike Ferrante | 028 The Functional Nerds In our 28th episode, John is living the rock star life, parked in a Hummer with Fred Kiesche, blogger for SF Signal & The Lensman's Children & Mike Ferrante, King of the Nerds. The boys sit down to chat about SF Signal, science fiction, the Internet, the ARPANet, blogging, .mac accounts, iWeb, Twitter, Facebook, social networking/media, Clarkesworld, podcasting, 9/11, Fred Pohl, Jack Williamson, Howard Hendricks, Mike Resnick, Lou Anders, authors embracing new and emerging technologies, audio books, David Drake, Mur Lafferty, the I should be Writing podcast, fame, Wil Wheaton, A Thousand True Fans, eBooks & out of print stories/novels/books. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio- Blue Lego © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 027 James Enge | 027 The Functional Nerds In our 27th episode, John & I are joined by James Enge - author of Blood of Ambrose, This Crooked Way, and the upcoming The Wolf Age. With James we chat about Latin, Morlock, sword & socrcery, Blood of Ambrose, The Crooked lady, Merlin, publishing, Popular Science, Norse mythology, Mickey Zucker Reinhurt, Jack Vance, Frtiz Liebur, Roman & Greek mythology, Thor, Beta Ray Bill, Dwarves, creating languages, Klingon & PYR books. Please note - we are changing our release day to Tuesdays. Again, new episodes will appear every Tuesday moving forward! Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio & Dale Chase - We Don't Need Another Trilogy © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 026 Matthew Kressel & Kate Baker | 026 The Functional Nerds In the 26th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by Matthew Kressel & Kate Baker We chat about: Sybil's Garage, Clarkesworld Magazine & podcast, being an IT professional, Altered Fluid, Craigslist, Small Beer Press, writing groups, Sybil's Cave, anthologies, the slush pile, Hal Duncan, the Snoopy dance, conventions & convention parties, Unicorn Pegasus Kitten, Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi & the Lupus Alliance of America. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - The Ferris Wheel Support the Lupus Alliance of America - check out http://unicornpegasuskitten.com/ © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 9/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 025 – Chris Roberson | 025 The Functional Nerds In the monumental 25th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by World Fantasy Award nominee and Sidewise Award winning author, Chris Roberson! We chat about: Cinderella-From Fabletown with Love, musicals, comic books, Azimovs magazine, Matthew Sturges, Bill Willingham, the Bonaventure-Cormody sequence, Philip Jose Farmer, Doc Savage, Anne Rice, Fables, I, Zombie, Monkeybrains Books, publishing, Boom! Studios, Masked, Lou Anders, George Lazenby & On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - NaNoWriMo © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 9/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 024 – Matthew Sturges | 024 The Functional Nerds In the 24th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by Eisner-award nominated author Matthew Sturges. This week, we chat about comic books, Midwinter, Jack of Fables, Vertigo comics, DC, House of Mystery, JSA All Stars, Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham, Fables, Masked, PYR, Lou Anders, Superheroes, The Dirty Dozen in Elfland, Doctor Who, Stephen Moffat, The Office of Shadow, World Building, Cover Art, Ian Banks & science fiction. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - IMr. Roboto (Styx Cover) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 9/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 023 | 023 The Functional Nerds In the 23rd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by returning 3rd Nerd Aidan Moher and our youngest recruit to date - Dan Goodman! This week, we chat about NASA, crowdsourcing wake up music for astronauts, digital distribution, Stargate Atlantis, creative commons licensing, Cory Doctorow, free tv, pay tv, bit torrent, record companies, the music industry, the long tail, publishing, ebooks, ereaders, Caprica, the channel formerly known as Scifi, Stargate Unierse, Haven, Jeff Vandemeer, A Dribble of Ink, Literary Musings and bandcamp.com. Featuring Original Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - I should be writing (acoustic) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 8/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 022 | 022 The Functional Nerds In the 22nd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by Z from Hipster Please - together, we chat with Kyle Stevens & Jim Demonakos - better known as Kirby Krackle! We chat about: Nerd Rock, Voltron: the music writing machine, music, the song writing process, Lennon / McCartney, Taupin/John, Comiccon, Alpha Flight, E for Everyone, the Great Lakes Avengers, On and On, Music videos, PAX, Mega-man, Ring Capacity, Up up down down, geeks are sexy, the Esacpist, Pearl Jam, Fan Expo in Toronto, Ustream & the Green Lantern Movie. Featuring Music clips by: Kirby Krackle: Secret Identity The Great Lakes Avengers Up, Up, Down, Down Teabagged Ring Capacity © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio Music © Kirby Krackle used with their permission Support Kirby Krackle by purchasing their music: http://www.kirbykracklemusic.com/music.html Help get @kirbykrackle's song 'Ring Capacity' on the Green Lantern Movie Soundtrack - join the Facebook Group today: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=133440553363562 | 8/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 021 | 021 The Functional Nerds In the 21st episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by The Book Nerdist, Jessica Barton! This week we chat about Chris Hardwick, The Nerdest, Scott Siglers Ancestor, book reviews, Tuesday, science fiction, Mur Laffertty, Tab Benoit, Sonny Landreth, Sookie Stackhouse, True Blood, Anne Rice, Confessions of a Japanese School Girl, iPhone Skype app,, SfSignal.com, Ninja Assassins, Twilight, iPhone security, ios, dial-up Internet, Blizzard, Starcraft II, raiding (on World of Warcraft), LEROY JENKINS & Blake Charlton. Featuring Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - San Luis Obispo © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 8/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 020 | 020 The Functional Nerds In the 20th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by bestselling author Peter V. Brett! This week we chat about writing a book on a Windows Mobile phone, writing to sell, making time to write, The Warded Man, good v. evil, magic symbolism, demons, moral ambiguity, genetic memory and fear, symbol magic, folklore, superstition, music for writing the perfect scene, twitter, wikipedia, The Desert Spear, Independence Day, Star Wars, the sympathetic villain, comic books and Red Sonja. Featuring Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Merithyn's Promise (instrumental) © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 7/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 19 | 019 The Functional Nerds In the 19th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by bestselling TOR author L.E. Modesitt Jr. This week we chat about MR. Modesitt's career, his 56 books, how he became a writer, his time in the U.S. Navy as a pilot, as a poet, military science fiction, Andrew Liptak, WW2, Vietnam, Afghanistan, The Parafaith War, The Imager Portfolio, The Corean Chronicles, The Spellsong Cycle, The Recluse Saga, music as magic, artisan musicians, voice training, strong women, hard science fiction, fantasy, the Ghost Books, the eBook industry and his upcoming appearances at Fandemonium & WorldFantasy Con. Featuring Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Lonesome October Night © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 7/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 18 | 018 The Functional Nerds In the 18th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, John DeNardo from SF Signal.com! John D gives us a hand as we welcome legendary science fiction author and five time hugo winner Mike Resnick! This week we talk about: Hugo nominations for SfSignal.com, the Mind Meld, Chicago, the White Sox, his early career, editing tabloids, mens magazines, Bob Silverberg, Herschell Gordon Lewis, writing science fiction, She Lives! by Paul Neimark, Marvin Kaye, humor in science fiction, Lucifer Jones, Harry the Book, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, William (Bill) Gibson, sparkly vampires, supernatural romance, Pyr, Lou Anders, John Picacio, Baen's Universe, Subterranean Press, Bill Schafer, The Dragon Page, the small press versus the mass market press, Golden Gryphon, Gary Turner, eBook publishing, Amazon's Kindle, Readercon, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, the Starship series, Weird Westerns, Blasphemy, Classics Dismembered, Africa, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alexander Lake, Dragon Con & the World Fantasy Con. Featuring Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - The Ballad of Wilson Cole © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 7/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 17 | 017 The Functional Nerds In the 17th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, Curtis Silver from Wired.com's Geek Dad! In the show this week, we discuss, ramble and conversate upon such varied and wondrous topics as: the Apple App store hack attack, iTunes reviews, spoofing the ranking system, the Justin Bieber Haircut App, Prince declaring the Internet dead, human cloning-Little Richard & Prince - same guy?, the artists percentage on iTunes, 1999, KISS, Metallica, the secret backwards message hidden inside George R. R. Martin is not your bitch, Youtube takedowns, Radiohead, the cd/vinvyl model seeming similar to the brick & mortar publishing model, flash fiction, Scrivener, Comic-Con 2010 and rebooting The Fantastic Four, The X-Men & Spider-Man movies - is this end of the comic book movie as a genre? Featuring Music by: John Anealio - Sundog (instrumental) John Anealio - Cylon #6 © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 7/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 16 | 016 The Functional Nerds In the 16th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruits - plural! in the 3rd Nerd Army, Matt Hammond and Shannon Flowers of the Seattle-Geekly podcast! In the show this week, we discuss, ramble and conversate upon such varied and wondrous topics as: Hipster Please, bad movies, MST3K, Riff Trax, the Seattle Space Needle - tourist wonder or motion sickness torture chamber from hell?!, Mount Saint Helen's and 'volcano day', Nathan Fillion and Eva Longoria as Ant Man & The Wasp, the Avengers movie, The Green Hornet, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Ryan Reynolds, Brandon Sanderson, The Wheel of TIme, The Way of Kings, Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth, Terry Brooks, The Shannara Series, George R. R. Martin, Ken Scholes, Kate Elliot, J.V. Jones, A Cavern of Black Ice, The Legend of the Seeker, Steven Erikson, Peter V Brett, The Warded Man, Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files, urban fantasy, Mur Lafferty, the fan fiction contest to benefit the Lupus Alliance of America, Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi and, Unicorn Pegasus Kitten. Featuring Music by: John Anealio - Unicorn Pegasus Kitten Erwin Beekveld - Taking the Hobbits to Isengard © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 15 | 015 The Functional Nerds In the 15th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, 2001 and 2006 International Horror Guild Award winner for Best Artist, 2005 Chesley Award winner for best paperback cover & 2010 Hugo Award nominee & mega-artist John Picacio! This week we chat about: Lou Anders, Mike Resnick, Pyr, John Picacio's beginnings as an architect, comic books, genre illustration, the design process, Michael Moorcock, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Dick Giordano, John Byrne, Terry Autsin, Epic Imprint, Marvel, Dave McKean, Darrell K. Sweet, Joseph Cornell, shadow boxes, mix media, physical and digitally layered art, painting, Photoshop, Jeff Ford, Del Ray, Elric, Graphic novels, the 2012 George R. R. Martin calendar, X-Men the Return, artist copyright, monetizing cover art, Paul Vaughn, Missions Unknown, Frank & Ellie Frazetta & the future of the genre cover artist and the printed book. Featuring Music by: John Anealio - Unicorn Pegasus Kitten © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 6/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 14 | 014 The Functional Nerds In the 14th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, blogger and mega science fiction and fantasy book reviewer from Grasping for the Wind: John Ottinger! This week we chat about: John Anealio's inability to pronounce Thaumatrope, Aiden Moher of A Dribble of Ink, reading for review writing, the history of Grasping for the Wind, David Eddings, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, podcasting, blogging, the science fiction and fantasy community online, Safari vs Firefox, Google Reader, the Geek Media Roundup, the Grasping for the Wind link-up meme, Technorati, writing book reviews, Peter V Brett, The Warded Man, Paul Kemp. Star Wars The Old Republic, The Desert Spear, John DeNardo & SfSignal.com, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, HBO, Starz, Showtime, True Blood, tv shows & movies with more mature/adult themes, Netflix, The A-Team, Tad Williams' Shadowmarch, the War of the Flowers, Stories Anthology, Spawn and the lawsuit, The Unit by Terry DeHart, The Griffin Mage by Rachel Neumeier, Song of the Dragon by Tracy Hickman and Jim Butcher's Proven Guilty, White Knight, Welcome to the Jungle & Small Favor. Featuring Music by: John Anealio © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 6/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 13 | 013 The Functional Nerds In the 13th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, author, blogger and podcasting pioneer: Mur Lafferty! Despite Skype causing an EPIC FAIL and a slew of technical difficulties, Mur Lafftery joined John Anealio and Patrick Hester in discussing Science Fiction and Fantasy podcasts, publishing, Joe Giacino, TOR.com, Twitter, The Leviathan Chronicles, Escape Pod, Far Point Media, old time serials, Mercedes Lackey, Tracy Hickman, Scott Sigler, self-publishing via podcast, Magazine Podcasts, Pseudopod, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Drabblecast, Tobias Buckell, younger people not reading blogs, Netflix, Growing up digital, TiVo, talk radio, new media, Dragonpage, Babylon 5, Balticon, crappy author websites & blogging. Featuring Music by: John Anealio © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 6/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12 | 012 The Functional Nerds In the Twelfth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, Z from the Hipster Please/Radio Free Hipster podcast and Wired's GeekDad HipTrax Podcast! This week, John Anealio tells us about his adventures at Balticon with author/podcaster Mur Lafferty, Kate Sherrod, Peter V. Brett, Shannon & Matt from the Seattle Geekly podcast, Gail Carriger and we discuss Readercon, Mile-Hi Con, David Sherman, BlizzCon, The Drunken Monkey Brewery, Nerdcore music, the Nerdcore (unrelated) NSFW calendar, Doctor Demento, the technology of Nerdcore, Weird Al, MC Frontalot, Optimus Rhyme, the Tascam 4-track recorder, N-Track Studios, Filk, Kirby Krackle, Mashups, Rapture Riders, Dual Core, Devo Spice, Stovokor, Blood Hag, G3, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Four Eyes, World of Warcraft, D&D, Protomen, Chiptunes, Tube Amplifiers, Starscream, Doctor Who, Pixel Hate, the Green Lantern, the Walking Dead & RC Cola Moonpies & Zombies. Featuring Music by: MC Frontalot-Your Friend Wil Optimus Rhyme: Dermato Fibro Sarcoma Protuberance Dale Chase: Who's your doctor? Led Zeppelin: Ramble On Go Home Productions: Rapture Riders Weird Al Yankovic: Polkarama! Orbital: Doctor Who Theme Mix Please support these great artists by purchasing their stuff. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 6/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 011 | 011 The Functional Nerds In the Eleventh episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, Andrew Liptak! Andrew is a blogger/writer who has contributed to i09 & SFSignal, has a Masters Degree in Military History and chats with us about: Military Science Fiction, John Scalzi, Orson Scott Card, Robert Heinlein, Forever war, old Man's War, Starship Troopers, Stargate Universe and the Scalzi product placement, the photo I took that ended up on Scalzi's blog, Dune, Frank Herbert, Avatar, what is Military scifi, J.R.R. Tolkien, how war(s) and combat affects fiction writers, Star Wars Jedi Trial, Cory Doctorow, NASA and the future of the US space program, Superman the Ride, Russian spies in space, the GeekDad podcast, Z (Hipster, please!), Green Lantern, Doctor Who, Serenity, The Lone Ranger, Pyr Books, We don't need another hero (or trilogy), Nerdcore, Facebook & glam rock bands. Yes. Glam Rock bands. Featuring Music by: Dale Chase & John Anealio © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 5/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 010 | 010 The Functional Nerds In the Tenth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by four time Hugo Award nominee, 2008 Philip K. Dick Award nominee, 2008/2006 Chesley Award winner/nominee, and 2006 World Fantasy Award nominee and editorial director of Pyr books - Lou Anders! Lou joins us this week to discuss a little bit of the history of the Pyr imprint from Prometheus books, the branding of Pyr that stands out on the bookshelves thanks to artwork from great artists like John Picacio, upcoming projects from Pyr, two new anthologies from Lou titled 'Swords & Dark magic' due in June and 'Masked' due in July, then we branch off into Stargate Universe, John Scalzi, Joseph Mallozzi, FlashForward and Batman comics. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 5/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 009 | 009 The Functional Nerds In the ninth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by a member of the 3rd Nerd Army: Aidan Moher from A Dribble of Ink! This week we chat about: Terry Goodkind & Tyra Banks both getting 3 book contracts, The Law of Nines & The Sword of Truth, Adam Whitehead & the Wertzone, jumping the shark in fiction, Jane Yolen, Diane Duane, online fiction, the Kobo eReader, freesfonline.de, webfictionguide.com, tor.com, Chapters, Barnes & Noble, OF blog of the fallen, John Ottinger, how John is getting older and Patrick will be young forever, Locus online, upcoming genre fiction, Lou Anders' Swords & Dark Magic, Pyr Books, Terry Brooks, The Shannara Series, The Last Page by Anthony Huso, Tome of the Undergates by Sam Sykes, The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, Star Wars and the expanded universe, Kristen Britain & The Green Rider, Dennis L. McKiernan, Tad Williams, James Enge, Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay, Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela by Saladin Ahmed, free comic book day, Larry Hama & G.I. Joe, Graphic novels & The Green Lantern. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 5/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 008 | 008 The Functional Nerds In the eighth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the 3rd member of the 3rd Nerd Army: Blake Charlton! Blake is both a novelist (Spellwright published by TOR) and a medical student, so we talked about: science fiction-like technologies being used in the world today, bionic limbs, nerve / brain rewiring, neural plasticity, neural perception, gross anatomy, the phantom limb phenomenon, Flash Forward, gross morphology, The Ultra-Humanite, the autism spectrum, music, Rex Lewis, a young musician with autism who could play back melodies that, for most, would take months to learn & had perfect pitch and a phenomenal memory, Stephen Wiltshire, an artist diagnosed as autistic who draws and paints detailed cityscapes sometimes after having only observed them briefly, Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks, savantism, Music Instinct: Science and Songs, Bobby McFerrin, Arthur C Clarke's Childhood's End, ADD, Dyslexia, Synesthesia & the awesome human brain. Oh, yeah, and there's this whole contest thing happening... © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 5/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May Round Table Discussion | The Functional Nerds - Round Table Discussion May 2010 This is a special bonus episode of The Functional Nerds! The concept here is simple - we take several topics to discuss and we invite some friends to join us for a round table discussion - which we record for posterity. Similar to inviting a bunch of folks over for dinner and then chatting after we've had our pie. (Sadly, there was no pie) Today we've invited 3 very different people to discuss: Summer Movies, Genre TV, Reboot Mania and Science Fiction to Science Reality. Our panel this month are: John DeNardo from SFSignal.com Software developer and Functional Nerd/Geek dad Quinn Perkins Console Gamer & twitter-bud Jenn Evans Host & Functional Nerd/Author Patrick Hester ~P If you would be interested in being a part of a future Round Table Discussion, please let us know. | 5/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 007 | 007 The Functional Nerds In the seventh episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the second recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army: Clifton Hill! Together, we venture forth to discuss such varied and diverse topics as: Hulu's new subscription service, Yahoo's new movie rental service, #boobquake, torturing the 3rd nerd for entertainment value, the long tail and freemuium models, the writer's platform, art and being artistic, making money off your craft, coffee shop gigs, Netflix, Modern Family, STARZ, Party Down, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, Chuck, Blockbuster Video, Fringe, X-Files, Scully & Mulder, late fees (suck!), TOR turning 30, David Drake, Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind, Elizabeth Haydon, Lord of the Isles, The Wheel of Time, The Sword of Truth, The Symphony of Ages, Tom Clancy, The Deathgate Cycle, Mararet Weis, Tracy Hickman, Harry Turtledove, the slushpile, Shadowmarch by Tad Williams, Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn, Runelords by David Farland, Jeff Beck, The Yardbirds, Cream, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and the SFSignal.com Mind Meld. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 4/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 006 | 006 The Functional Nerds In the sixth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the first recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army: Kate Sherrod! Together with Kate, we chat about: C2E2, Comic book conventions, Shakespeare, sonnets, Doctor Who, Netflix, Lost, the channel formerly known as SciFi, Wrestling, Wizard's of the Coast & the Anaheim comic con, Mile-High Con, Magic the Gathering, Cheyenne WY, The US Airforce, collecting comics, independent comics, Brandon Sanderson, Jordancon, pen & paper RPGs, Dungeons & Dragons, Risk, Warhammer, HP Lovecraft, Weezer, in the garage, X-Men, Nightcrawler, 20-sided die, KISS, Ace Freely, Avatar's upcoming Crossed motion picture, Zombie books, Garth Ennis, Jason Burrows, Richard Starkings, Elephantmen, Iron Man, Kevin Colden, Dan Dougherty, Beardo, Rotten, Moonstone, Raphael Nieves, the evil eye books crew, Joe Quesada, Marion Call, George Robb, Phil Rossi, the Geek Dad podcast, ladies apparel, Jinx, Think Geek, Chopshop Store, Blizzcon, women in comics, Kate learns not to ask Patrick for names of people because he doesn't remember names..., WebComics, Scott Kurtz, PVPOnline, David Malki, Wondermark, Dark Horse, Star Wars, Conan, Doctor Solar, Jim Schutter, Hellboy, Heir to the Empire, Dark Empire, Tales of the Jedi, Knights of the old Republic, Heroes Only comic books in Cheyenne, Migh High Comics, Chew, Image comics, Atomic Robo, the massive mega Marvel Crossover Events, Coupling, British television vs American television seasons, Christopher Eccleston, Heroes, Captain America, Chris Evans, Johnny Storm, Alex Ross, John Hamm (Don Draper), The Roger Corman Fantastic Four flick, Dolph Lundgren's Punisher movie, John's obsession/devotion to Jean-Claude Van Dam, The Mullet, Comixology, the iPad, Pulp Pixel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Angel After the Fall, Balticon 2010, Mur Lafferty, Ace of Cakes & DIA. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 4/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 005 | 005 The Functional Nerds In the fifth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat about all things musical and technological - together at last in a single topic! This week we chat about: USB mics, podcasting mics, John's new song, Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle, Quicksilver, 1666, recording & the recording process, iTunes, digital music, Zune, Rhapsody, Pandora, eMusic, apple, amazon, cds, local radio, streaming audio, smart playlists, your local library, Tegan & Sara (Tegan Jovanka and Sarah Jane Smith? -No.), AC/DC, The Beatles, used cd stores, The Traveling Wilburys, Jenny Lewis & Rilo Kiley, The Monsters of Folk, Virgin Radio UK, The Music Genome Project, soundtracks, iPhone, finding new music, Stephen Stills-Stills Alone, Paste magazine, Dale Chase - Whose your Doctor?, Nerdcore, MC Frontalot, Stargate: Universe, Chuck, genre shows on the bubble, hulu, SyFy's changing their schedule to accommodate Friday night wrestling (Smackdown), SciFriday, Destination Truth, V, FlashForward, Heroes, Old Man's War, Spellwright, John Scalzi, Blake Charlton, Shadowmarch, Tad Williams, Ghost Brigades, Memory Sorrow & Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair, Otherland, Stone of Farewell, To Green Angel Tower, The Risen Empire, Scott Westerfeld, Splinter of the Minds Eye, Alan Dean Foster and Fuzzy Nation-The Reboot. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 004 | 004 The Functional Nerds In the fourth episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat about a proposed sequel to John's George RR Martin is not your bitch called 'George RR Lucas IS my bitch', about: John Ottinger, grasping for the wind, R.E.M, Billy Joel, comic book creator copyrights, Marvel, DC, Image, Rob Liefield, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Web of Spiderman, W.I.L.D.CA.T.S. (we totally meant Youngblood), Joker drawn on the iPad by Jim Lee, Catwoman drawn on the iPad by Jim Lee, the iPad, Doctor Who, GrooveMaker for the iPad, iWork (Numbers, Pages & Keynote) for the iPad, Adobe Ideas for the iPad, Jimmy Fallon, Engadget, the comics boom of the 1990's, Disney, BestBuy, Logic, Korg, The Electribe, PocketGuitar, SciFi Songs Live at a Library near John, Jeremiah Tolbert & Clockpunk Studios, Stargate: Universe, Hulu, the Syfy Channel, special effects on tv, V, Sanctuary, John Scalzi, Fringe, SciFi television, Jerry Lee Lewis, Murray Gold, Bear McCreary, The BBC Orchestra, The new Doctor Who theme versus the previous 4 series theme, Motion City Soundtrack, Veronica Mars & Buffy the Vampire Slayer. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 4/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 003 | 003 The Functional Nerds In the third episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat about @SFSignal, sfsignal.com and the Mind Meld, the iPhone, the Jawbone Blue tooth headset, about: the iPad, Project Gutenberg, the iBookstore, public domain books, copyright, Smashwords, Rip: A Remix Manifesto, Creative Commons, Disney, Fables, Pinnochio, Snow White, Cinderella, Hercules, Aladdin, Grimms Fairy Tales, CD Baby, YA Novelist @trishthewriter (Trish Edmisten), Self Publishing, The Lord of the Rings, Adam Carolla, Gene Simmons (Family Jewels), GarageBand, podcasting, SciFi Songs, iWeb, .Mac, Blogger, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, PHP, CMS, Microsoft Frontpage, PPOC (proprietary piece of crap) computers, eFiction, Dreamweaver, OpenSource, Kindle 2, Amazon, Stephen King (hates the iPad), V, Lost, FlashForward, Robert J. Sawyer, genre shows on the bubble, Chuck, Legend of the Seeker, A Song of Fire and Ice, George R. R. Martin, HBO, Showtime, SciFi television, Fringe, Supernatural, Smallville, SciFriday, Neil Gaman, The Armageddon Rag, Led Zeppelin, Gollum, cover bands, Beatlemania, The British Invasion, The Blues, Jim O'Rourke, The Visitor, Steve Lawson (http://twitter.com/SOLOBASSSTEVE), Mark O'Connor, Mtv, Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card, Clash of the Titans, After Life, Kick Ass, The Losers, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Iron Man 2, The A-Team & Jonah Hex. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 4/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 002 | 002 The Functional Nerds In the second episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat about the New Jersey school system and music in schools, about: piracy and digital copyrights, creative commons, Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer', how John is really 'just a music nerd' (cause he's married! to a -girl-!), Don Tapscott, Wikinomics, Grown up Digital, Lawrence Lessig, copyright laws, user manuals, generic web hosting, the generation gap and the different way of thinking what is and what isn't 'stealing', digital distribution of content online, Hulu.com, paid subscriptions, the Roku player, TiVo, Netflix instant streaming, Apple's iPad, Shazam for iPhone, Revision 3 Internet Television, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Robert Culp, The Greatest American Hero, 30 Rock, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, AirlockAlpha, Doctor Who, the cost of DVD's & television seasons, Stargate: SG1, Atlantis & Universe, Star Trek The next generation, Deep Space 9 & Voyager, John Scalzi, Harlan Ellison, Cylon's and the 13th Tribe, King's X & Rain Perry, L.E. Modesitt Jr & Haze and the Interstellar Jukebox. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio | 3/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 001 | 001 The Functional Nerds In the very first episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio chat about the new iPad from Apple, what it means to be a 'functional nerd', about: science fiction media, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, Felicia Day and The Guild, SciFi site SFSignal.com, the Atari 2600, old iPods and CD's, the Whuffie factor from of Cory Doctorow's science fiction novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Elantris, Steam for the Mac, console gaming, Blizzard, World of Warcraft (for the Horde!), Blizzcon, PhilCon, Gregory Frost, Haze by L.E. Modesitt Jr., J.V. Jones, Dennis L. McKiernan, Dragondoom, TOR books, SciFi Songs, The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds, Iron Sky by Charles Strauss, Spellwright by Blake Charlton, Hidden Empire by Kevin J. Anderson and NaNoWriMo. © 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio (iTunes links will come when they are available) | 3/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Great show for nerds like me...
I really like the show, good topics, good hosts, good production. I really enjoyed the interview with Jason Sanford, and I'm looking forward to going through the show archive. Keep up the good work guys!
Two SF Signal Stalwarts shine on their own podcast
There are podcasts which basically are 3 or 4 people rambling for an hour. There are podcasts so bad that authors complain on twitter
afterwards about the experience. There are podcasts with lousy production values, where to hear one of the members means
that you have to blast and blare the volume of a loud talker amongst the group.
The Functional Nerds are none of these. John Anealio and Patrick Hester are two longtime SF fans and members of the SF Signal family who talk intelligently about
the genre they love so much. Patrick is interested in the craft of writing (as an aspiring novelist himself) and John is drawn to
the musical touchstones of the genre, and has made a number of SF themed songs. Together, they fight crime.
Actually, together they interview authors and other SF luminaries, ranging from Cherie Priest to Kevin J Anderson. They make real connections with the SF personalities, and you can hear their enthusiasm, professionalism and sharp wit.
The Functional Nerds is part of my essential SF podcast listening, and if you are interested at all in the SF genre, it should be part of yours.
Top-flight podcasting
In the last few years, I've searched for, and tried-out, dozens of podcasts and listened to hundreds of hours of programming. My main areas of interest are comics and cartooning, writing and art, genre fiction in books, movies. TV, etc. There is no shortage of podcasts in these areas. So, it comes down to time. If you value your time as much as I do, you treat it like a valuable resource, and you spend it wisely. I set time aside for Patrick and John, and I enjoy it and consider it currency well-spent.
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