The Data Disruption — Michael R. Underwood

When Stories Break, You Send in the Genrenauts!The Genrenauts are a group of story experts who travel to parallel worlds. Each is the home of a narrative 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.In the world of Cyberpunk, D-Source, a noted hacker, has disappeared, leaving his team's storyline to grind to a halt. Angstrom King leads the Genrenauts on a mission to find out what happened to D-Source and how to get the cyberpunks back in the action.World-spanning megacorporations...suspicious mercenaries living on the edge...lethal computer programs designed to tear your mind to shreds...the Genrenauts will face all these and more to get the story back on track--before it's too late.A short story in the world of Genrenauts (a finalist for the r/Fantasy Stabby Award for Best Serialized Fiction.)