| From: | Max Rible <cheshire@*****.com> |
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| Subject: | Re: Dead Air, Dead Dunkelzahn... |
| Date: | Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:06:59 -0800 |
>I was just wondering if anyone had a chance to pick up and read my book,
>Dead Air. It's my first published novel, though the second I've written for
>FASA. The first is an Earthdawn book called Liferock which will hopefully be
>out next year.
It's one of the better Shadowrun novels I've read; it provides
a reasonable coverage of the world of Shadowrun with real shadowrunners
as main characters (as opposed to decadent aristocrats getting involved
in situations completely beyond their control or a detective who
needs to hire shadowrunners whenever he gets in trouble) getting in real
trouble the way shadowrunners can with believable corporate types on
the other end. No immortal elves involved in grandiose schemes, no
cosmic menaces lurking off in the background, just a nice healthy
paranoid shadowrunning adventure. (It even leaves Hans Brackhaus just
as mysterious as before.) Good stuff; if I were lending Shadowrun
fiction to someone to introduce them to the milieu, I'd probably
start with Dead Air.
>Anyhow, I welcome any feedback. Especially, since I'm working on a trilogy
>now which delves into the assassination of Dunkelzahn and some of the
>characters and plots surrounding the fallout. Obviously, the trilogy (which
>is called The Dragon Heart Saga) is unrelated to Dead Air, except they share
>the Shadowrun universe, but I think feedback is still valuable.
Will there be any more evidence one way or the other as to whether Dunkelzahn's
dead or whether it was faked? (Between the facts that he was assassinated
in front of the JFK building, that he left the note about JFK in his will,
and has been deified about as quickly as JFK, I'm personally 95% sure that
Dunkelzahn faked his assassination and is now off working on his own agenda
while his VP gets to operate with a mandate like the one LBJ had when JFK
was killed. "Dunkelzahn would have wanted it that way" will probably shove
a *lot* of legislation through the UCAS congress and sway a lot of popular
votes.
(Of course, he may have to come back as someone different, Dunkelzahn having
been killed. Perhaps he's currently off somewhere getting draconic cosmetic
surgery... and, of course, he may need to build up a completely new power
base for verisimilitude...)
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