From:	Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com
Subject:	Jak Koke E-Mail (Concerning the SR Novels)
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 1999 12:48:09 EDT

In a message dated 7/16/99 12:34:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
d.n.m.vannederveen@****.warande.ruu.nl writes:

> Even if they ditch the novels, there will be moments that you'll think
> "ooooh, I'd rather they hadn't done that...."
>
> VrGr David


I don't want ROC or FASA to ever ditch the SR novels. I would just like to
read stories about shadowrunners in the novels, and game threads in the
sourcebooks with the two never interfering. You can have NPCs from novels in
the Shadowland posts (like Dodger or Red Wraith) since they logically inhabit
the SR world. I'd also like to see technology not described in the
sourcebooks turn up in the SR novels, since there must be whole worlds of
tech out there that the sourcebooks don't cover because they aren't inclined
towards the samurai/decker/rigger archtypes. Also having the cyberware and
other gear provide interesting realworld effects instead of the strict game
effects would be nice. I look back fondly on the line in Shadowplay where
Findley describes the taste a slap patch gives you of olives in your mouth as
it administers medicine and how you come to loathe the taste. That's detail
I would like to see more of.

Personally (ignore the AI behind the curtain), I think SR has some of the
best novelists they've ever had right now with Kenson, Smedman, and Odom (and
maybe Szeto if ROC ever gets its act together). It's the direction of the
novels that needs attention, not the skill of their writers. (I don't
include Koke in this not to flame him, but only because I honestly haven't
liked his novels thus far. I don't count him out though, especially if he
writes another book with Jonathon Bond. The writing on TTE went up a notch,
even if I didn't like the plot because it stepped on the toes of the
sourcebook GM threads again.)






-Twist
Lifetime Member of the I WANT MY JOSIE CRUISE NOVEL Crusade