This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome K.E. Flann, author of How to Survive a Human Attack.

About How to Survive a Human Attack: Did you know human attacks account for a staggering 100 percent of premature deaths for witches, swamp monsters, cyborgs, and other supernatural, mutant, and exceptionally large beings?

The past millennia or so has seen not only an uptick in human attacks, but also increasingly indiscriminate victim selection. It is understandable to feel overwhelmed. From renowned preternaturalist K. E. Flann, How to Survive a Human Attack provides critical information at a critical time with chapters specifically tailored to their target audience, including:

* A Zombie’s Guide to Filling the Emptiness and Moving Forward

* First-Time Haunter’s Guide for Ghosts, Spirits, Poltergeists, Specters, and Wraiths

* Self-Training 101 for Werewolves: Sit, Don’t Speak, Stay Alive!

* What’s Happening to My Body?: Radioactive Mutants and the Safety of the Nuclear Family

About K.E. Flann: K.E. Flann’s writing has been featured in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The North American Review, Shenandoah, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and a collection of short stories won the 2014 George Garrett Award at Texas Review Press. Excerpts from this incredibly important work have appeared or will appear in Word Riot, The Higgs Weldon, Defenestration, and Monkeybicycle.

This week’s picks:

* Kathy: How To Mars by David Ebenbach

* Tracy: How to Talk to a Science Denier by Lee McIntyre

* Patrick: Ghosts (BBC version on HBOMax)

Links:

* K.E. Flann on Twitter

* Tracy Townsend on Twitter

* Patrick Hester on Twitter

* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page

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