Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451457400
ISBN number: 0451457404
Label: Roc
Manufacturer: Roc
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: April 01, 1999
Publishing house: Roc
Sale Popularity Level: 1279047
Studio: Roc
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October, 2060 I hate bugs. I always hated them, even as a kid. I think there's just something hardwired, deep in the human brain, that says bugs are wrong somehow. Just looking at them creeps me out. So, naturally, there I was inside the rusting corpse of a factory complex some thirty-five miles outside of the Federal District of Columbia facing down a guy in charge of some bugs bigger than me. Not a nice feeling, let me tell you. I flatted myself against a support girder along one of the upper walkways of the dimly lit complex and tried to still the sound of my own breathing so I could listen. I heard a distant humming sound echoing through the large open space above the maze of machinery quietly rusting away on the floor of the factory below. It was broken up by random clicks and tapping noises. I tried to ignore it and focused instead on closer sounds that might give away the presence of my quarry. I heard a faint rattling of the catwalk behind me and to the left and a muffled cry that was just as quickly cut off. I spun around the support girder and leveled my Ares Slivergun across the open space towards the opposite wall and fired off a shot. It went wide of the mark, but I wasn't actually trying to hit anything. Gunfire would endanger the person I'd come here to save, and I had more precise weapons to use than a gun. The plastic fletchettes from the Slivergun smacked against the ferrocrete wall with a loud crack as the dark figure on the other side waved his hand and called out in a harsh language of clicks and buzzes not mean to be spoken with a human tongue. I ducked behind the girder again and heard a spattering and a loud hiss. A terrible stench filled the air as the acid begin to eat away at the corroded metal, dissolving it. I spun and took a couple of quick steps back to stay out of the small puddle of greenish-yellow liquid that dripped from the edge of the catwalk, taking the liquefying remains of the top of the girder with it as it began to quickly e
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WOW! Rarely do I pick up a book and it grips me right away. I decided to read this one because I left the book I meant to read at work that night. I skimmed the prologue and was hooked and the book was devoured in days. Talon a street mage from Boston must deal with the mistakes of his past. Youthful anger and loss can create your worst enemies. How do you do battle when the enemy is of yourself. yadd yadda. All I can say is it is not a disappointment. I have long strayed from the shadowrun world of books, but now I may come back....
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This novel is for people who like cartoons, the people in it act like it, they are genuine cartoon characters. While there is nothing wrong with that at all and this kind of writing sometimes guarantees relaxing entertainment, the action in this book is very often delayed by lenghty background information that does not serve any purpose, and by endless dialogues. Either we want a cartoon-like book with fast cartoon-like action or a normal sf- or fantasy novel. You cannot have both.
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I must respectfully disagree with the reviewer from Seattle: of all FASA's current Shadowrun novel authors, Stephen Kenson is the most knowlegable about the mileu (something you cannot reliably count on the others to be). Also inarguably he is the most knowlegable about the magic-related themes that this novel revolves around (he is the author of "Magic in the Shadows").
This book is not quite as good as Technobabel, but it is a fine story, involving several Boston related figures (see "Target:UCAS") and the mage Talon (late of Assets Inc, who Kenson introduced in Dunkelzahn's Secrets). One of the major story threads - that one's Enemies can come from within and not just from some dark metaplane, was very well handled. In fact, there are some characters in my SR campaign who's pasts might similarly come back to haunt them. . .
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This book was pretty good. It had interesting characters and plot. However, you really had to know the universe in order to understand what was going on. Not for the new Shadowrun reader.
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A well thought-out story by Mr. Kenson. His well crafted characters made for an exciting read. I look forward to future stories from this writer.
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