Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Exit-Max-Gladstone/dp/0765335735"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="https://www.maxgladstone.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Gladstone</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Exit-Max-Gladstone/dp/0765335735" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LAST EXIT</a>.<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Last-Exit-Max-Gladstone/dp/0765335735" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LAST EXIT</a>: When Zelda and her friends first met, in college, they believed they had all the answers. They had figured out a big secret about how the world worked and they thought that meant they could change things.<br> They failed. One of their own fell, to darkness and rot.<br> Ten years later, they’ve drifted apart, building lives for themselves, families, fortunes. All but Zelda. She’s still wandering the backroads of the nation. She’s still fighting monsters. She knows: the past isn’t over. It’s not even past.<br> The road’s still there. The rot’s still waiting. They can’t hide from it any more. Because, at long last, their friend is coming home. And hell is coming with her.<br> About <a href="https://www.maxgladstone.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Gladstone</a>: Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award winning author Max Gladstone’s works include Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and games, and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the internationally bestselling This is How You Lose the Time War. His interactive projects include the XYZZY-nominated Choice of the Deathless and Deathless: The City’s Thirst, which take place in the world of the Craft Sequence. Gladstone created the Serial Box series Bookburners, and the interactive television series Wizard School Dropout<br> Gladstone studied Chinese literature at Yale, and lived and taught for two years in rural Anhui province. He is a martial artist, fencer, and fiddler. Before writing full-time, he also worked as a researcher for the Berkman Center for Internet and Policy Law, a Swiss Embassy tour guide, a go-between for a Chinese auto magazine, a translator, a philosophy TA, a tech industry analyst, and an editor. He has wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat, sung at Carnegie Hall, and been thrown from a horse in Mongolia.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Max: <a href="https://youtu.be/T2sVK4WZlEQ">Chorus (PS4)</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/">LeVar Burton Reads (Podcast)</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Legend-Vox-Machina-Season/dp/B09PZG2979" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Legend of Vox Machina (Prime)</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/maxgladstone" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Max Gladstone on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/TracyATownsend" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tracy Townsend on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/atfmb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Patrick Hester on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://www.patreon.com/functionalnerds?ty=h" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Functional Nerds Patreon Page</a><br> <br> © 2022 Patrick Hester<br>
