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Summary: Not William Gibson's world... but the same genre.
Review: someone below said that this is built on William Gibson's cyberpunk world with a twist. If you're a sci-fi afficionado, that statement is misleading. Firstly, Gibson to my knowledge invented the cyberpunk genre (coined the term cyberspace, even), and since then, many have followed in his steps. It's not based on Gibson's world... it's written in his _genre_. The "Shadowrun" world is based on a role-playing game which has a MUCH different feel to it. Of course, that feel varies between authors, but Gibson's worlds tend to feel much harsher to me. There seems to be more warmth in most of the Shadowrun books I've read. Especially this series by Charette: my favorite Shadowrun books by far, and this is my favorite of the series. A very fun read.
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Summary: Rainbow-colored landfill.
Review: There are few books as good as Charrette's....and for this, Lord, we are grateful. Charrette's book is bad. It's a whole new standard in bad. He has written the first book I've ever read without one memorable sentence in it. It involves a twit, lead around by the nose through a convoluted plot which comes to the reader through a muddy, unfocused, adolescent prose. Reading this book is like reading a book report by a fifth-grader who is getting paid by the word...almost five hundred pages worth of words... and not one of them worth hanging on to. The story itself is not a story so much as it is a sequence of action scenes glued together for the purpose of showing places and character-types within the game from which the story derives. The actual sequence of scenes has no independent value *as* a story: The protagonist is a religious twit who survives by sheer luck with relentless regularity. The eminently forgettable characters surrounding the narrator have less independent existence than Little John in a kindergardener's edition of the adventures of Robin Hood. And, in a fantasy setting rife with both technology *and* magic, Charrette can think of nothing better to do with his time and the reader's than to regurgitate dim reflections of scenes out of direct-to-video quality productions. The most exciting thing about this book is that someone actually saw fit to publish it. The only thrill of the work is the thrill of deep fear: you fear that someone near you might have read it, found it good, and then want to talk to you about it. I hope that the rest of the various shadowrun books out there are better than this one because there is genuine distaste in anything as bad as Charrette's writing: you think of all the toilet paper they could have made. It's impossible to read this book without thinking in terms of waste.
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Summary: This book was in one word, exhilerating, from front to back.
Review: This book is a masterpiece in literature. The journey of the main character is one of growth. On this journey he is forced to do what he can with the tools given him by nature and by men. All the while pursuing what he knows in his heart is right. Not too unlike our own journeys in life, though a lot more fantastical with the magical abilities and cybernetically jacked-up individuals. Of such individuals, one sentence or rather phrase I will always remember in the description of Jason (one the cybernetically enhanced beings) was his hellbent aggressiveness. This book is just incredible and is a must read. I wish it were still in print, many people I know would like it.
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Summary: The greatest mix of magic and cybernizm ever!
Review: This book is one of the greatest combination of magic and futuristic science-fiction. The inclusion of "old" races (elves, orks, drawfs and even dragons!) adds an interesting twist. The book has the feeling of conspirousy when global corperation rule the "SINless". Only those of the shadows can survive through the darkness of evil.
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Summary: A good start to an excellent series.
Review: This book is the least engaging of the three, but is still a good read. I find its place in the series to be satisfactory. Everything gets better as the series progresses. The best shadowrun series.
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Summary: I dont like pie
Review: this book is the only shadowrun book ive read and it was one of the best books ive ever read anyone who likes shadowrun should read it
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Summary: Built on William Gibson's Cyberpunk world with a twist
Review: This was the first (and in my opinion the best) book I have read from the ShadowRun series. If you ever read William Gibson (if not, you should read his works), the universe should be familiar to you. It is the same world where corporations control the information but includes freelancer hackers, cybernerically beefed up street samurai, and returning mythical creatures such as elves and goblins. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Built on William Gibson's Cyberpunk world with a twist
Review: This was the first (and in my opinion the best) book I have read from the ShadowRun series. If you ever read William Gibson (if not, you should read his works), the universe should be familiar to you. It is the same world where corporations control the information but includes freelancer hackers, cybernerically beefed up street samurai, and returning mythical creatures such as elves and goblins. Highly recommended.
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Summary: No 1
Review: This was the first one. This book of Shadowrun is one of the best in the series (If not T H E B E S T). It is so good that I read it three times. In my opinion if you like the shadowrun books and have a collection This book must be in it. Enjoy the book
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