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post Nov 18 2005, 04:33 AM
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QUOTE (nezumi @ Nov 17 2005, 05:08 PM)
While The Big U is supposed to be well written, and I suppose Zodiac was as well, I fail to see how either (the former being a humor book about life at University and the latter being a modern setting eco-terrorist book) are really 'shadowrun-esque'.  Do I simply need to read them to appreciate it?

Big U is sort of... surreal, and very tongue in cheek and I wouldn't call it SR-esque.

Zodiac, on the other hand, while not really SR-like at all in terms of atmosphere, does have all kinds of stuff that could be relevant to life as a runner - like B&E, working the research and contact angle, manipulating people, industrial sabotage, corporate plots and coverups, etc.

Yeah, what s/he said.
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Big U is sort of... surreal, and very tongue in cheek and I wouldn't call it SR-esque.


they drive a tank down a dorm hall... :rotfl:

And what s/he said.
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post Nov 18 2005, 06:51 AM
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well just back form the book store. pickins were slim. i got 2xs by Nigel Findley, and Burning Bright by Tom Dowd

opinions?

You were lucky to get ,arguably, the two best books in the Shadowrun line?

half.com has some Shadowrun novels cheap.
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post Nov 19 2005, 08:26 PM
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Nearly all the Mel Odom books were good reads, imo. Some of them were particularly extravagant in the Planning the Impossible Department.
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post Nov 20 2005, 04:13 PM
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More than Human

there's a nonfiction for ya all.
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