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Title: Burning Bright (Shadowrun) by Tom Dowd ISBN: 0-451-45368-9 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 November, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bug City Revealed
Comment: This was the first Shadowrun book I ever read after having picked up the Bug City companion which referenced this novel. Tom Dowd has painted a wonderful picture of the situation in Chicago and the slow build up to the eruption of one of the largest bug hives in the Shadowrun universe. This dark, gritty tale also helps set the mood for anyone interested in running a Bug City campaign and is a must read for any gamemaster.
Rating: 5
Summary: All around excellence.
Comment: Though Nigel Findley was the one of the last true Shadowrun authors, Tom Dowd recently took the late novelists place. Burning Bright has an edge, a quality, that most of the other(and more recent) Shadowrun novels lack. The characters are excellent, as is the plot. I was always confused about what happened in Chicago in the late months of summer. This novel clarified everything.
I honestly didn't find many errors. The actual plot slowed down a little, but before I could get impatient, everything picked back up again. A must read for the Shadowrun fan. Actually, a must read for the casual reader, as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Probably the best Shadowrun Novel ever.
Comment: Not infrequently I get into debates/arguments about the utility of novels in game universes (for example, do the Forgotten Realms novels make the Realms a better, or worse, game setting?) In those debates, "Burning Bright" is the example I use of a good use of game-related fiction.
Most game-related novels, whatever their other merits, end up with one grave flaw, which over time weakens the utility of the setting as an RPG universe - they end "happily," with the heros triumphant and villans humbled (Zhentil Keep is nuked, Tethyr unified under benign government, etc, etc). This makes the setting gradually less interesting as a place to adventure in. Most authors seem to lack the stomach for anything other than a happy ending, and most readers seem to agree. Also, most such novels answer more questions than they leave you with (reducing the game world's mystery), solve more problems than they introduce (reducing the "threat level").
In Burning Bright, Tom Dowd was bold enough to take another path. He took the road less travelled by, and that made all the difference. In addition to solid characters and a engaging storyline, this book's ending paved the way for a very dangerous, dark game setting (Bug City). While publically exposing the bugs, it left the problem not only unsolved, but more dangerous - and eventually this storythread led to Yeats, Penchyk, and the Empowerment Coalition.
This was one of the first SR novels I ever read, and if only all game related fiction were this good, RPG gaming might not be a withering hobby. . .
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Title: Night's Pawn (Shadowrun) by Tom Dowd ISBN: 0451452380 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Dead Air (Shadowrun , No 22) by Jak Koke ISBN: 0451453751 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Steel Rain (Shadowrun , No 24) by Nyx Smith ISBN: 0451455932 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Shadowrun: Choose Your Enemies Carefully (Shadowrun (Roc)) by Robert N. Charrette ISBN: 0451450876 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: The Lucifer Deck (Shadowrun , No 23) by Lisa Smedman ISBN: 0451453778 Publisher: Roc Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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