Podcasting pioneer Mur Lafferty's debut novel, Playing for Keeps, has just shipped. Mur's delightful superhero comedy tells the story of a plucky band of second-rate heroes who become outlaws when they out the Big Guys for their nefarious power-grabbing deeds. It's clear that Mur had a lot of fun writing this — the second-rate powers (shooting streams of excrement, being able to tell a person's secrets by sniffing them) are straight out of The Tick.
Playing for Keeps was originally a serialized podcast, and it shows, in a good way: this is a novel of cliffhangers that had me going from page one until I closed the covers.
