I know this comes up every now and then, and for whatever reason I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. Is there an order to Shadowrun Novels? I found Changeling, Find Your Own Truth, and Fade to Black at a used bookstore, and read them (in that order).
Today I received:

Headhunters
Beyond the Pale
Clockwork Asylum
Shadowplay
Shadowboxer
2XS
Just Compensation
Blood Sport
Night's Pawn
Who Hunts the Hunter
Lone Wolf
Never Trust an Elf
Stranger Souls
Worlds Without End
Technobabel

Is there an order here that I'm missing? Or just one that anyone would suggest? There's 15 books, so I could order them randomly and roll 6d3 .......
No, really. What do you guys think?

I know the Nigel Findley novels have only two books to read in order, and that's '2XS' first, and then 'House of the Sun'.

Because I think Nigel Findley is the god of shadowrun, and should the afterlife exist, is one person I WOULD like to meet, I read them in the order he wrote them in.

That order would be: Lone Wolf, 2XS, Shadowplay, House of the Sun. (Although, technically 2XS and House of the Sun follow the same story)

The Dragonheart saga goes through: Stranger Souls, Clockwork Asylum and Beyond the Pale.

The Secrets of Power Trillogy goes: 'Never Deal with a Dragon', 'Choose your enemies carefully' and 'Find your own truth'

As far as a grand overarching order for all of the novels, I don't believe there is one. The only order you might want to try is reading them in the order they were published, roughly. That way you shouldn't end up reading say...'Burning Bright (Bug City)' after ''Technobabel (Renraku Arc)"

If you like the bugs, make sure you get a copy of Burning Bright.

Don

I'd read them in roughly (exactly for the Dragon Heart trilogy, however) this order:

1. Never Trust an Elf
2. Night's Pawn
3. Just Compensation
4. 2XS
5. Who Hunts the Hunter
6. Lone Wolf
7. Shadowplay
8. Blood Sport
9. Headhunters
10. Shadowboxer
11. Worlds Without End
12. Technobabel
13. Stranger Souls
14. Clockwork Asylum
15. Beyond the Pale

Just Compensation comes after 2XS. The Brotherhood is still around. Just Compensation is part of the fallout from Chicago, Pistons.

Man, your order's really wrong here. Technobabel is after Dunkelzahn's death.

Don

I see you missed the word "roughly." If you want to get really picky, two of the Dragonheart trilogy happen after Dunk's death as well. Most folks I know don't like to break up their reading of a trilogy, so putting Technobabel before it isn't out of line. Neither would it be putting it completely after.

All the references in my site list the novels in the order they came out (excpet for Into the Shadows, which is really a double entry that I just decided should be retroactively locked into slot #7 like the re-print suggests).

Or, hey! You could follow the handy link someone else already provided above!

Scroll downwards, AH. He's got them listed according to when they came out. His reviews (the ones that are there anyway) touch on if the books are concurrent or retro as I mentioned.

I agree partially, but I liked Burning Bright the best and really did not like anything by Nyx Smith.

BTW, don't you have a book to review?

Don

Burning Bright.

Best Tie-in Fiction Ever.

It's one of the few books I go back and reread every year or so. That said, Nigel Findley's books are all really good, and Night's Pawn is good, although the style is a little different from what you may be used to (its style is closer to Neuromancer than the straightforward stuff you usually see in the RPG Tie-in market). None of the other Shadowrun novels strike me as being particularly memorable, although they aren't particularly horrible either.

You are correct. The cycle would be 2XS, Shadowplay, Lone Wolf, House of the Sun. Remember, SLY is hiring Dirk in Cheyenne.

Don