Series
Shadowrun
Michael A. Stackpole, Jennifer Brozek, Stephen Kenson, John Helfers, Mel Odom, Robert N. Charrette, Russell Zimmerman, Jak Koke, Jason M. Hardy, Lisa Smedman, Nyx Smith, Tom Dowd, Nigel D. Findley, R. L. King, Stephen Dedman, Bryan CP Steele, Carl Sargent, Dylan Birtolo, Jean Rabe, Marc Gascoigne, Olivier Gagnon, Phaedra Weldon, Aaron Rosenberg, Chris A. Jackson, Christopher Kubasik, Jason Schmetzer, Jordan K. Weisman, Kai O'Connal, Malik Toms, Patrick Goodman, Bradley P. Beaulieu, Brooke Chang, Caroline Spector, Clifton Lambert, CZ Wright, Dan C. Duval, Elizabeth T. Danforth, Ilsa J. Bick, Jennifer Harding, Jonathan Bond, Ken St. Andre, Kevin Killiany, Kevin R. Czarnecki, Lorelei Shannon, Marc Tassin, Marie Bilodeau, Matt Forbeck, Nick Pollotta, O. C. Presley, Paul R. Hume, Scott Schletz, Steven Mohan, Jr., Steven S. Long & William H. Keith, Jr. · 72 novels · 25 novellas · 12 novelettes · 27 short stories · 3 collections · 8 anthologies · 1990–2026
Shadowrun's tie-in fiction line spins stories out of the tabletop RPG's setting: a near-future world where corporate cyberpunk has collided with the sudden return of magic, dragons, elves, and other fantasy races. Spanning dozens of authors over more than three decades since Never Deal with a Dragon (1990), the novels mostly follow shadowrunners - deniable mercenary operatives - pulling off corporate espionage and heists among megacorporations, street gangs, and awakened magic. Books are largely standalone or loosely trilogy-linked rather than one continuous narrative.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Shadowrun at the centre, 4 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1990s56
- 2000s9
- 2010s53
- 2020s29
Shape
72 novels · 25 novellas · 12 novelettes · 27 short stories · 3 collections · 8 anthologies
54 authors
reads like:cyberpunkorganized crimebig citynear futuretenseadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 96% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · brighter = more books109 of 147 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Changelingdarkest · calmest
- Worlds Without Endbrightest
- Psychotropemost intense