Episode 591-With Temi Oh

The Functional Nerds Podcast

This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Temi Oh, author of MORE PERFECT.

About MORE PERFECT: When Moremi connects her brain to the Panopticon, a network which allows you to see inside the minds and dreams of others, she believes that it will save her from depression, loneliness and, eventually, death. That is until she meets Orpheus.

Orpheus was brought up in isolation by a Neo-luddite father. He was raised to question everything, including the government who plan to make the connection procedure compulsory.

They promise that connecting everyone to the Panopticon will end human suffering and usher in a more perfect world. But when Orpheus and Moremi uncover the dark side of the technology, they find themselves on opposite sides of a radical divide, between those who believe that the Panopticon will save humanity, and those who will stop at nothing to destroy it.

About Temi Oh: Temi Oh wrote her first novel while studying for a BSci in Neuroscience. Her novel, DO YOU DREAM OF TERRA-TWO?, was published by Simon & Schuster. It won the American Library Association’s Alex Award in 2020 and was an NPR Best Book of the year in 2019.

She has written stories for Marvel’s Black Panther, Dr Who and Overwatch.?

Her next novel, MORE PERFECT will be published by Simon and Schuster in May 2023

Her first short film MURMUR was funded by Sky Arts and the BFI. Since then, she has written on the Netflix TV series Castlevania: Nocturne and the CBBC series SILVERPOINT.

This week’s picks:

• Temi: Foundation S2 (Apple Tv)
• Tracy: The Big Sleep (A Philip Marlowe Novel) by Raymond Chandler
• Patrick: Justified: City Primeval (FX/Hulu)

Links:

• Temi Oh on Twitter
• Tracy Townsend on Twitter
• Patrick Hester on Twitter
• The Functional Nerds Patreon Page

© 2023 Patrick Hester

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