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Shadowrun: DocWagon 19: A Shadowrun Novella by [Jennifer Brozek]

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The Life of a Lifesaver

DocWagon—saviors of the needy, rescuers of the desperate. Willing to go anywhere, rescue anyone, as long as that “anyone” has forked out enough advance cash to justify the effort.

Reporter Amelia Hart has embedded herself with a DocWagon team to see what their life is really like, and she’s in for a wild ride. From an OD’ing celebrity to an aggressive team of hackers, from pesky gangs to an extremely rich and powerful client teetering at death’s door, this night will give the team all they can handle. But will they survive long enough to remember that in the Sixth World, nothing is truly random?

Full of memorable characters and rich Sixth World flavor, DocWagon 19 is a thrilling ride with the people struggling to save lives in a sprawl with a million ways to make people dead. Strap in, hold on, crank up the siren, and get ready for a crazy ride-along through the full chaos of the Shadowrun setting.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00UZERM84
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Catalyst Game Labs (March 19, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 19, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1755 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 96 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #509,938 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,315 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #1,359 in Two-Hour Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads
- #1,856 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Books)

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Jennifer Brozek

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Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her BattleTech tie-in novel, The Nellus Academy Incident, won a Scribe Award. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a freelance author and editor for over fifteen years after leaving a high paying tech job, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer's worlds at jenniferbrozek.com.

"I see story ideas. All the time. They're everywhere. Just walking around like normal ideas. They don't know they're stories."

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Top-tier Shadowrun story and a love letter to oldschool fanfics

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2018

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Played and beat both SNES and GEN games multiple times. 60+ of the official novels read. 20+ fanfics read. Huge supporter of the Shadowrun Returns effort. Had my own fully developed UGC and backstory in the SRR engine.

DocWagon 19 Story (no real spoilers if you're familiar with Shadowrun writing):::

Absolutely loved it. Writing is top notch. Story top notch. Premise expertly executed. Has a ton of little details that were extremely appreciated. Best of all, ends up like all my favorite Shadowrun fanfics of the late 90's early 00's. 3rd act goes to hell, then has a twist-ending. Does not disappoint! Exactly how I remember all of my favorite fanfic endings but has the writing quality of the top-tier Shadowrun novelists.

How a DocWagon story never got written before this is beyond me. About 25 years and finally. Can't say this enough. Does not disappoint and dare I say, a "must read" if you ever wondered what the poor DocWagon folks go through every day. There needs to be a DocWagon story in the next Shadowrun Returns guys!

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It was a good risk on the authors part

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015

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It was almost interesting. It's a piece of the Shadowrun world not often covered and it was detailed enough to not be mired down in Shadowrun technobabble, while offering veterans to the world a quick foray from a different perspective.

But the "in story TV advertisements" serve as more of a distraction. And with its already slim content took too much away from the plot, even if they tied in to it. If the book was longer and couldn't be torn through in a matter of minutes, it would be an interesting plot device. The writing was well done, but the story and plotting it's self was a mess and the villains motivations illogical.

It was a good risk on the authors part, but not enough meat to the story to really justify the world building and character exposition.

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A view into the shadows from the light. Rarely seen.

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2015

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A great mystery tour through a unique lens. The story adds to itself in unexpected layers. Characters who become more than I anticipated and more than I was led to believe they would. The tale reveals legal and practical ambiguity between DocWagon and the entities that it interacts with. A great reminder of all the references and brief moments of DocWagon told throughout the ever richer Shadowrun novel/novella landscape. Thank you to the author. I look forward to what she offers us next.

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Layered, complex and fast as Shadowrun should be!

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2015

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DocWagon has always been one of the best examples of how different the Sixth World is from our own: armed paramedics who will crash through whatever they must in order to save a client. Jennifer Brozek's novella gives DocWagon the sort of attention it has always deserved, along with a nice helping of Sixth World pop culture commercials and a view into the workings of journalism. Again, Shadowrun is all about the layers, and Brozek absolutely delivers there. The mark of an enjoyable read is the reader's desire for more, and all along I kept thinking how much I wished this was a full-length novel. Bottom line: Shadowrun fans will not be disappointed.

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Don't forget to catch the trideo of this

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2015

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Good Shadowrun story, taking you inside two parts of the Shadowrun universe that have never been featured in story form before. This is a quick little book showcasing a day in the life of a Shadowrun Fast Response Team as seen during a broadcast by an embedded reporter. The only reason I gave it only 4 stars is because it is pretty short.

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Fun read for classic Shadowrun fans and novices alike.

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2015

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Excellent Novella from veteran RPG, Sci-fi and Horror writer Jennifer Brozek. The novella embeds the reader with a team of contracted first responders in the Shadowrun world, part paramilitary outfit, part paramedics the Doc Wagon teams have long been a part of the Shadowrun universe. Jenn Brozek does an excellent job taking the reader through a night with a Docwagon team and includes lots of world enriching tidbits during the adventure. While Shadowrun fans will definitely get the most out of the book, I would recommend it to individuals new to Shadowrun as well along with anyone interested in creative science fiction and cyberpunk genres.

6 people found this helpful

Directly from the Shadows Chummer

Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2015

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Excellent take on Doc Wagon from Shadowrun. The author captures many essencial elements of the world of Shadowrun. It does feel Cyberpunk. It has the required dark themes without being overly dark. It has some elements of nostalgia. My only caveat is that it is somewhat simplistic in terms of plot and shorter than I would have liked. But for the price it is a very nice work. Good all around and highly recommended if you want a couple of hours of fun in Six World's Seattle 2056.

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Tell, Don't Show

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2015

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The story largely takes place over a single night in the life of a Doc Wagon High Response Team. The way the author has written and presented this story is through a vid show, including explicit screen fades, jumps, and commercials. This is a classic case of tell instead of show. There is no dramatic tension to be had. We have no idea on the perspective of any of the characters. All we have is this little visual window. Even worse, the narration is that of a viewer of the vid show. Imagine sitting with your back to a TV and having someone describe what is happening on the screen during one of those expose news reports, including commercials. That is this book.

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a night in the life of docwagon

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2015

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An interesting short novel set in the Shadowrun universe featuring DocWagon.. A private company that goes into dangerous situations like an ongoing gunbattle and retrieve folks...who can pay for it.. That is

Could have been much better

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2015

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I bought the book because I was really interested in the idea of the Doc Wagon perspective. The ads were annoying and didn't add to the story. I couldn't get over the idea of the tv show and that all those secrets would have been broadcasted. Would have been much better from the viewpoint of someone like a newbie joining the team. Foreshadowing on how certain things were connected at the end could have been much better.

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Well written and in an interesting style. However, ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2015

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Well written and in an interesting style. However, advertising annoys me even in real life and
implementing it into the body of the narrative doesn't help - even if it's fake ads and put in for flavouring the story.

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It was a fun ride with DocWagon

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2018

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The book captured the feel of the Shadow Run universe from a new angle. Also I got to learn more about docwagon. It was a good afternoons reading.

Christopher B. Clouser

Not worth the time.

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020

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On the upside, it’s about DocWagon which I’ve always thought needed more representation. Unfortunately it’s not particularly engaging or well written, cliche, and lacks tension (like most RPG fiction, to be fair).

Plus, about a third of the already short text is spent on written descriptions of Sixth World commercials. I wouldn’t recommend it, even if you really like Shadowrun.

richard McKinnon

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016

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I like this book wish it was longer

Very nice quick read

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2015

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Very nice quick read. The upstanding citizen perspective is not one that is common in Shadowrun story lines and this was done very well. Great take on the challenges presented to EMT personnel while staying true to the sprit of Shadowrun.

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