The first Genrenauts novella - aka "The Pilot Episode."

Meet struggling stand-up comic Leah Tang as she is invited to join The Genrenauts, a group of storytellers that travel across dimensions to fix broken stories and protect the multiverse. ...more

I received an early copy of this novella through NetGalley.

I confess right from the start: I'm biased. I read this as an early draft and loved it, and I was overjoyed when Genrenauts was announced as part of a new novella series at Tor. The concept is a delightful and original mash-up of Quantum... ...more

One of the best things I can say about this story is that there is great potential for serialization. Now, normally, I find serialization to be a weak attempt to grab more money from the reader, The Shootout Solution wrapped the story up nicely. I didn’t feel cheated, and I hope TOR puts more of... ...more

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A Copy of this Novella was provided to me by Netgalley in exchange for an Honest Review

First up, as always, we have the blurb: "Leah Tang just died on stage.
Not literally.
Not yet.

Leah's stand-up career isn't going well. But she understa... ...more

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There are a few themes in book that really work wonders. Stories that focus on alternate dimensions of fiction, or that deal with librarian with supernatural powers. I read the works of Jasper Fforde, Genevieve Cogman, I started with t... ...more

Shootout Solution is a different take on a core component of MIke's Ree Reyes series. In that series, genre knowledge is used as a source of magical power. In this one, genre's are their own separate world and genre knowledge allows you to navigate those worlds, and fix them when they get off tra... ...more

Aprovechando que mañana sale a la venta, hoy toca hablar de The Shootout Solution de Michael R. Underwood, otra de las novelas cortas de la nueva colección de la editorial Tor. Por ahora esta colección está siendo todo un acierto, y aunque esta novella que nos ocupa no llega al nivel excelente de... ...more

This is the second Tor.com novella I’ve read and Mike Underwood has written one of the most entertaining explorations of genre in his exposively fun Shootout Solution. It’s somewhat metafiction, but at the same time, seamlessly integrated into the writing where the self-awareness becomes part of... ...more

Leah cuts loose on stage and ends up with a job offer - travel to different genres and help fix stories gone wrong. How could a wanna-be comedian and nerdest refuse, besides, there was the offer of getting her a standing comedy gig. So off Leah went in a rocketship to Western world to help find a... ...more