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 Jun 24 2006, 11:29 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 169 Joined: 13-December 05 From: Portland, OR Member No.: 8,070  |
Into the Shadows was my actual introduction to the setting outside of the Genesis game, and I really loved it when I re-read it last month. I remember Burning Bright to be possibly the best piece of game-serial fiction I've ever read. Right now, I am reading Night's Pawn and having a real fun time with it.
I wasn't too fond of 2XS, though. I really dislike books that put TOO much effort into using setting-specific buzzwords, and this book is crammed with them, especially in the first couple of paragraphs. Plus, the game reads like a transcript of a tabletop game, and I just don't like the characters. |
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Jun 25 2006, 01:38 AM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
You're just not looking hard enough. Say... into another novel. |
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Jun 25 2006, 03:06 AM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Dragon Heart trilogy
Run Fast Die Hard |
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Jun 25 2006, 12:19 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 15-May 03 Member No.: 4,591 |
All of them that you can find. Seriously. I have all of the novels (except for the excellent short story anthology, which to this day eludes me), and have read them all multiple times.
Unlike most of the responses, I actually LIKED Striper and Who Hunts the Hunter, but I kind of like were-tigers as a concept, so I'm biased. BUT, that's my point. SR offers SO many different ideas and styles, it all depends on your take and YOUR preferences (often, at that particular time). So, try them all, see what you like. Hell, so many are available cheap on eBay and stiggy that you could probably get a whole slew of them for under $20, much cheaper-and better quality writing-than most of the trash that passes for reading material these days. (I know Anita Blake's big, but...) PS-Anyone want to try to comprehensively describe the ShadowRun setting in as few words as possible? Including most, if not ALL options (punks through rockers to IEs, decker through rigger to mage, physads, shapeshifters, cyberzombies, etc. ...)? R |
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Jun 25 2006, 02:22 PM
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Mystery Archaeologist Group: Members Posts: 2,906 Joined: 19-September 05 From: The apple tree Member No.: 7,760 |
I'm pretty sure my flgs has one in stock (into the shadows right?)
he does do mail order so ask for it... click here for website |
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Jun 25 2006, 09:40 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
Let's not exclude the works of Michael J. Stackpole, people.
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Jun 25 2006, 09:45 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 33 Joined: 23-May 06 From: California Free State Member No.: 8,597 |
Has he written anything for Shadowrun? I know that Michael A. Stackpole wrote a bunch of short stories for Shadowrun. :) His book Wolf and Raven was already mentioned, in the first reply to the thread, in fact. |
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Jun 26 2006, 04:10 PM
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Karma Police Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 1,358 Joined: 22-July 04 From: Gothenburg, SE Member No.: 6,505 |
Sorry, I don't read all that much sci-fi really so I don't have any good tips. I don't know any examples of another author doing precisely what Morgan did; to take a sci-fi detective story and just make it as hardboiled as possible. Deus X by Norman Spinrad is said to be good... *shrug* I think maybe it is I who should take advise from you, because I never read for example the books by Neal Stephenson that are on your list. |
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Jun 26 2006, 07:40 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
Ooopsie, thanks for the claification, Glorian. Yes, all of Michael A. Stackpole's work in SR. |
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Jun 28 2006, 06:12 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
Oh, just saw this in the bookstore and did a little looking on Amazon.com. But this guy seems to write a lot about intrigue for corperate individuals.
One example is Killer Instinct. Some corp does not seem to have the killer instinct to move up in the ladder. He befriends a ex-special forces guy and gets him a job in the corp. The friend starts doing stuff to help the suit get promoted, though to his horror people start dying. |
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Jul 1 2006, 06:10 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
I was poking around the bookstores yesterday looking to pick u some copies of Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality books because another board reminded me how much I liked reading them when they first came out. The books combine magic and technology in a modern setting, and could be useful for ideas. They are higher fantasy than SR, ad nowhere near as bleak, but are a fun read.
That's not the reason for this post though. What I saw that I had forgotten about was Steven Barnes's Gorgon Child. No magic, but it's an excellent representation of a street sam in a post modern dystopian world. I vaguely remember reading some other Barnes stuff, but don't remember enough to know if I should recommend them or not. |
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Jul 1 2006, 07:48 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Sounds like The Temp, only without the luxury of having a former SF soldier doing the dirty work. |
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Jul 2 2006, 12:34 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
I'm sorry but not even lesbians could save that book from being better than so-so. Going in armed to the teeth with a freakin' Vindicator minigun and sniping across the street with a Barrett-121 just to threaten some guy that beat up a woman kind of tipped me off that it was going to be a fairly power gamer-eaque story. :) I did actually like some bits of it and a couple of ideas but the rest of it dragged the whole book down. |
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Jul 2 2006, 12:51 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
I bet that guy doesn't go around beating up a lot of women anymore. Or if he does he's very careful not to get caught or IDed. :)
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