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So have you heard about Genrenauts by Mike Underwood, available now from Amazon? If you haven’t, how about Geekomancy, and the Hugo-nominated Skiffy and Fanty Show, or even his previous appearance on my podcast?
Anyway, now it’s time to talk about Genrenauts, Mike’s experiment with that serial novella thing all the cool kids are doing these days.
I get to take my interest in genre and tackle it head on.
Blazing Saddles
Louis L’Amore
Unforgiven
Turns out Mike has a degree in folklore
Who gets to use violence and to what end?
Chambara (aka “samurai cinema”)
Wuxia
Also the Heian and Kamakura periods are cool too!
The Heike Monogatari
The Grace of Kings
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Eternal Sky trilogy by Elizabeth Bear
Throne of the Crescent Moon
Obsidian and Blood
Thursday Next (not Wednesday Next, sorry)
Find more “world SF” on Skiffy and Fanty
TV Tropes!
A storyteller always brings themself to the story
Tim Powers
Tor.com‘s novella imprint
Lee Harris
Dan Wells‘s try-fail cycles
Published on November 08, 2015 13:00