Well, who would you all like to see in a novel after the 5 year gap in action that proceeds SR4?

Jack Skater and his crew; Elvis, Duran, Trey, Archangel, er...the Dwarf...
His daughter would be what? 10 or so..

Kyle Teller - from Burning Bright.

And not neccessairly his own novel - but it'd be cool for Sam Verner to Make an appearance - just to see what's become of him in the 20 year's since SR started


Thouse would be cool..

An 80s dude with a mullet, a pistol, and leathers.

Frosty!

Yeah, Archangel left - she made an appearance in Mel's next book...That one with Argent.

But she could come back.

Oh, and of course, Jason Chase (aka. Priest, Simon Church, Mikael Komroff, Eric Sieboldt, Carpenter, Michael Dengeo, etc.)

I sure hope that drek-hot Ryan Mercury's still kicking hoop and taking names! He's one tough fragger, chummer!

Eldritch pretty much summed it up for me. I'd also like to see what happened to Sally Tsung.

I would definitely like to hear about Harlequin and also about Richard Villiers & Miles Lanier.
Indeed it would be nice to see what Harlequin gets interested in now.
And I'm quite interested in knowing how Villiers and Lanier plan to make Novatech surviving the technogical change concerning the Matrix.
Anyway, from what I've read on Villier's plans and especially that quote: "Scuttlebut says that Villiers and the upper ranks have a big surprise planned" >CorpWatcher, p.160 SOTA64, I have the definite feeling that Novatech might still be at the bleeding edge of technology in 2070.

On the other hand, I'd also like to hear about some old characters like Sam Verner and Dodger or the good old Fastjack (should be getting old now ), Dirk Montgomery and also Kyle Teller and his old ally, Seeks-The-Moon.

Last, I would *love* to see Dunkelzhan coming back from the metaplanes and take back a seat on world affairs once again!

Yeah. Coming back from the dead just isn't done enough in popular fiction, and he isn't super-lamely halfway there already. Dunkie's gotta come back.

Well... I don't really want him to come back, because I'm getting tired of all these damn 'superheroes' dying and coming back. Kind of defeats the nobleness of the sacrifice if they just come back.

But realisitcally (if you can say that when referring to a spirit of a presidiential dragon that blew it's self up and now lives on in the body of a mage that lost it's magic, then got turned into a mostly machine cyberzombie, then got his awareness back from a mystical artifact tha shouldn't exst, then went soft, and eventually regresses back to a child hood state and wanders the metaplanes protectiing all of metahumanity form the 'enemy) , he can only wander back and forth along the same freakin' chasm bringnig down mana spikes for so long before he gets bored.

Depends if you keep with the sota-curve.

Kham, now of age.

Dodger, Sam, Sally, Ghost, FastJack, Argent, and all the other 2050 characters. Just to see how they are 20 years after.

The IEs, and dragons. Shadowland should get an extra chat room for them. Kinda like a "immortal ancient beings" usergroup.

And SPD, Bung, and soem of the other old Shadowtalk names.

Dirk Montgomery, so long as it comes out right, but then again, better not.

Who is the troll from "Changeling" ? I would like to see something about him. Or did he die, I forget?

If Dunkelzahn returns, it must be done right:

+ His death was only a bad dream of his voice/secretary

+ She realises that when she wakes up and hears a shower, investigates and
finds DZ there saying "Morning Nadja"

+ She realise the last years where only a bad dream, it's still 2055


Hey, it worked once...

Birdy

Double posts.

You and your wacky Dallas plot hooks!

Hatchetman and Rikki Ratboy.

Well, I would liek to read book about Wolf and how he is teaching the new gaurd. Yes he is old, but he has seen so much shit in his life. Maybe have him cooling down and finally geting some real peace in his life.

Froty would be nice.

Didn't priest die?

Fastjack dealing with the new matrix.

Sharks with frigggin' 'lasers' on their heads!

Also, didn't Hatchet die? Rikki Ratboy's dead, too, SSG says so.

Hatchetman became a cyberzombie in the Cybertechnology book. I don't recall if he got himself killed or not.

Rikki Ratboy would make an *awesome* Master Shedim, for example. Something about using him as the example for the Quickened Stinkbomb spell (in MiTS?) really made him stick out in my mind.

Especially since Gibson is less than fond of SR's universe :/

So?

Eff him.

It has? I thought he was mightily pissed that Shadowrun with all it's pixies, fairies and dragons dared to call itself cyberpunk in the first place?

I demand proof of his de-crotchety-ization.

I demand proof he has a brain, so what?

Why don't you guys go and ask him? He's got a message board, you know.

I recall him saying in one of his blog entire about a year ago that he found Shadowrun distasteful. I think he said he found the setting goofy, but I suspect that it was also fueled by some of the things Shadowrun blatantly ripped off out of his own books.