Shadowrun: Crossroads (FAS5742) (Shadowrun (Fanpro)) [Mass Market Paperback]

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Series: Shadowrun (Fanpro) | Publication Date: June 1, 2003

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

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 273 pages
• Publisher: FanPro (June 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451457420
• ISBN-13: 978-0451457424
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,409,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty ....good book, November 17, 2000

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This review is from: Shadowrun 36: Crossroads (Paperback)

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....

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fine story., September 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Shadowrun 36: Crossroads (Paperback)

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. . .

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great, July 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Shadowrun 36: Crossroads (Paperback)

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.