This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Neil Sharpson, author of When The Sparrow Falls.

About When The Sparrow Falls: Life in the Caspian Republic has taught Agent Nikolai South two rules. Trust No One. And work just hard enough not to make enemies.

Here, in the last sanctuary for the dying embers of the human race in a world run by artificial intelligence, if you stray from the path?your life is forfeit. But when a Party propagandist is killed?and is discovered as a “machine”?he’s given a new mission: chaperone the widow, Lily, who has arrived to claim her husband’s remains.

But when South sees that she, the first “machine” ever allowed into the country, bears an uncanny resemblance to his late wife, he’s thrown into a maelstrom of betrayal, murder, and conspiracy that may bring down the Republic for good.

About Neil Sharpson: Neil Sharpson lives in Dublin with his wife and their two children. Having written for theater since his teens, Neil transitioned to writing novels in 2017, adapting his play The Caspian Sea into When The Sparrow Falls.

A huge fan of animation, Neil writes Unshaved Mouse, a comedic review blog mostly focusing on animated film and comic book movies.

This week’s picks:

* Neil: Sentinels of the Multiverse (Game)

* Tracy: Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos

* Patrick: The Wheel of Time (Trailer)

Links:

* Neil Sharpson on Twitter

* Tracy Townsend on Twitter

* Patrick Hester on Twitter

* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page

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