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b'This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Blake Crouch, author of UPGRADE.
\\nAbout UPGRADE: At first, Logan Ramsay isn\\u2019t sure if anything\\u2019s different. He just feels a little… sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.
\\nBut before long, he can\\u2019t deny it: Something\\u2019s happening to his brain. To his body. He\\u2019s starting to see the world, and those around him\\u2014even those he loves most\\u2014in whole new ways.
\\nThe truth is, Logan\\u2019s genome has been hacked. And there\\u2019s a reason he\\u2019s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.
\\nWorse still, what\\u2019s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large\\u2014at a terrifying cost.
\\nBecause of his new abilities, Logan\\u2019s the one person in the world capable of stopping what\\u2019s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he\\u2019ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.
\\nAnd even as he\\u2019s fighting, he can\\u2019t help wondering: what if humanity\\u2019s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?
\\nAbout Blake Crouch: Blake is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of a dozen novels, most recently, Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade, for which he is also writing the movie for Steven Spielberg\\u2019s Amblin Partners. His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015\\u2019s #1 show. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. His novel, Recursion, is currently being developed as a Netflix series by Shonda Rhimes and Matt Reeves, and Skydance is developing a film adaptation of his novella, Summer Frost, based on Crouch\\u2019s script. His novels have been translated into forty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Cemetery Dance. At the moment, Crouch is writing a new book and creating a nine-episode adaptation of his novel Dark Matter, for Apple TV+. Blake lives in Colorado.
\\nThis week\\u2019s picks:
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\\n* Blake: Almond Croissant (London)
\\n* Tracy: Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer
\\n* Patrick: For the Love of Spock (Documentary)
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\\nLinks:
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\\n* Blake Crouch on Twitter
\\n* Tracy Townsend on Twitter
\\n* Patrick Hester on Twitter
\\n* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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\\n\\xa9 2022 Patrick Hester
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