Leverage meets Jasper Fforde in this new series of novellas from the fan-favorite author of Geekomancy. Fantasy. Mystery. Science Fiction. We know these genres from TV and comics and more, but in Genrenauts, each genre is also a world unto itself, populated with archetypal characters and filled with the tropes we all know and love. When a story goes-off track, you send in the Genrenauts. This team of narrative specialists travels across dimensions to find, evaluate, and fix broken stories, lest the ripples manifest as violence and upheaval in our own world. Struggling stand-up comic Leah Tang is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join the Genreauts as they head to the Western world to stop a bandit posse on the rampage. But the Western's hero isn't interested in winning, and the safety of Earth hangs in the balance... PRAISE FOR THE SHOOTOUT SOLUTION "Who hasn't wanted to imagine themselves parachuting into a story gone wrong and putting it back on track? It's storytelling as heroism, genre savviness as power. Endless fun. Catnip for genre geeks." ― Marie Brennan, World Fantasy nominated author of A Natural History of Dragons "A clever, exciting, and seriously fun twist on portal fantasy that sends a geeky stand-up comedian into the Wild West. Sign me up to be a Genrenaut, too!" ―Delilah S. Dawson, author of the Blud series and Hit

The Shootout Solution: Genrenauts Episode 1 (Genrenauts, 1)

Literature & Fiction

Underwood, Michael R.

United States

Tordotcom

Last Week, She Was Working Open Mics. Now She’s Headed to Outer Space.
Rookie Genrenaut Leah Tang gets her first taste of space flight when the team scrambles to fix a story breach in Science Fiction World, the domain of starships, weird aliens, and galactic intrigue.
On the space station Ahura-3, Ambassador Kaylin Reed is on the verge of securing a peace treaty to guarantee the end of hostilities between some of the galaxy's most ferocious races. When Ambassador Reed is kidnapped the morning before the signing, it throws the station into chaos. 
So now it’s up to Leah and her team to save the day and put the story to rights. 
At any cost.
The second episode of Genrenauts, a science fiction series in novellas. If you like Leverage, Redshirts, or Quantum Leap, check out Genrenauts for a brand-new adventure.
 "If you like the TV show Leverage or the books of Jasper Fforde, Genrenauts is absolutely the series for you. Exploring genre tropes while saving the world has never been more fun." ― Between the Covers

The Absconded Ambassador: Genrenauts Episode 2 (Genrenauts, 2)

When stories break down, you send in the Genrenauts! Struggling stand-up comic Leah Tang is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to join the Genrenauts, a secret organization of dimensional travelers. Leah learns that our world is just one of many, and every other world is the home of a story genre — Science Fiction or Romance, Fantasy or Western — populated by archetypal characters and constantly playing out familiar stories. The Genrenauts’ mission: find and fix broken stories. If they fail, the ripples from the story worlds will cause havoc and devastation on their home world. Leah joins the team and dives head-first into the adventure. But the stories are breaking faster and worse than ever before. Will Leah rise to the occasion, or will she end up as just another broken story? An adventure science fiction series for all fans of Leverage, Quantum Leap, or Redshirts! Contains all six novellas from Season One of Genrenauts: The Shootout Solution The Absconded Ambassador The Cupid Reconciliation The Substitute Sleuth The Failed Fellowship (Part 1 & 2)

Genrenauts: The Complete Season One Collection

Genre Fiction

Michael Underwood

"Geekomancy is a glorious blender of genres, like a sweet candy shell filled with pop culture and high heroism. Absolutely stellar." - Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the October Daye and Wayward Children series\nRee Reyes’s life was easier when all she had to worry about was scraping together tips from her gig as a barista and comic shop minion to pursue her ambitions as a screenwriter. 
When a scruffy-looking guy storms into the shop looking for a comic like his life depends on it, Ree writes it off as just another day in the land of the geeks. Until a gigantic “BOOM!” echoes from the alley a minute later, and Ree follows the rabbit hole down into her town’s magical flip-side. Here, astral cowboy hackers fight trolls, rubber-suited werewolves, and elegant Gothic Lolita witches while wielding nostalgia-powered props. 
Ree joins Eastwood (aka Scruffy Guy), investigating a mysterious string of teen suicides as she tries to recover from her own drag-your-heart-through-jagged-glass breakup. But as she digs deeper, Ree discovers Eastwood may not be the knight-in-cardboard armor she thought. Will Ree be able to stop the suicides, save Eastwood from himself, and somehow keep her job?\n2nd edition - 2022\nBook 1 in the completed Ree Reyes series.

Geekomancy (Ree Reyes)

Humor & Satire

Gray Fox Literary

Fame has a magic all its own in the no-gossip-barred follow-up to Geekomancy!\nRee Reyes gets her big screenwriting break, only to discover just how broken Hollywood actually is.\nThings are looking up for urban fantasista Ree Reyes. She’s using her love of pop culture to fight monsters and protect her hometown as a Geekomancer, and now a real-live production company is shooting her television pilot script.\nBut nothing is easy in show business. When an invisible figure attacks the leading lady of the show, former child-star-turned-current-hot-mess Jane Konrad, Ree begins a school-of-hard-knocks education in the power of Celebromancy.\nAttempting to help Jane Geekomancy-style with Jedi mind tricks and X-Men infiltration techniques, Ree learns more about movie magic than she ever intended. She also learns that real life has the craziest plots: not only must she lift a Hollywood-strength curse, but she needs to save her pilot, negotiate a bizarre love rhombus, and fight monsters straight out of the silver screen. All this without anyone getting killed or, worse, banished to the D-List.\n2nd edition - 2022\nBook 2 of the completed Ree Reyes series.

Celebromancy (Ree Reyes)

A side quest novella in the best-selling Ree Reyes Geekomancy urban fantasy series - when D&D style adventures go from the tabletop to real life! Ree Reyes, urban fantasy heroine of Geekomancy, is working her regular barista/drink-slinger shift at Grognard's when it all goes wrong. Everything. Someone or something is sending wave after wave of monsters to besiege the store and Ree has to rally the unusual suspects for them to have any chance of lasting the night. 2nd edition - 2022 A side-quest novella in the completed Ree Reyes geeky urban fantasy series. Attack the Geek takes place between Celebromancy and Hexomancy.

Attack the Geek (Ree Reyes)

In a city built among the bones of a fallen giant, a small group of heroes looks to reclaim their home from the five criminal tyrants who control it. The city of Audec-Hal sits among the bones of a Titan. For decades it has suffered under the dominance of five tyrants, all with their own agendas. Their infighting is nothing, though, compared to the mysterious “Spark-storms” that alternate between razing the land and bestowing the citizens with wild, unpredictable abilities. It was one of these storms that gave First Sentinel, leader of the revolutionaries known as the Shields of Audec-Hal, power to control the emotional connections between people—a power that cost him the love of his life. Now, with nothing left to lose, First Sentinel and the Shields are the only resistance against the city’s overlords as they strive to free themselves from the clutches of evil. The only thing they have going for them is that the crime lords are fighting each other as well—that is, until the tyrants agree to a summit that will permanently divide the city and cement their rule of Audec-Hal. It’s one thing to take a stand against oppression, but with the odds stacked against the Shields, it’s another thing to actually triumph. In this stunning, original tale of magic and revolution, Michael R. Underwood creates a cityscape that rivals Ambergris and New Crobuzon in its depth and populates it with heroes and villains that will stay with you forever.

Shield and Crocus

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

47North

An exuberant space opera that dares us to lose ourselves in battle songs and nonstop action! A woman who can wield a weapon like a song. A man who can out-think ancient death traps. A pilot who flies her ship like a second skin. To keep the Kettle out of hock, Lahra, Max, and Wheel flout border patrols, salvaging artifacts from dangerous galactic ruins. But the power in those artifacts threatens the iron-fisted rule of the galaxy's imperialist overlords, the Vsenk. To protect their dominion, the Vsenk have humbled entire civilizations. They eat ships like the Kettle and her found family for breakfast. Lahra, Max, and Wheel are each just trying to get home to the lives they lost, but they'll have to evade space fascists, kick-start a rebellion, and save the galaxy first. Board the Kettle for a space opera like none you've ever read before: an adventure of galactic subterfuge, ancient alien lore, a secret resistance force, lost civilizations, and giant space turtles.

Annihilation Aria: Book One of the Space Operas (The Space Operas, 1)

Parvus Press

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