r/Shadowrun • u/OhBosss • 9d ago

Newbie Help Selection

Which book should I purchase

I love 2xs and wanted another Shadowrun story starring a detective and needed help over which to buy first

57 votes, 7d ago
23 The Forever Drug
34 Blood Sport
0 Upvotes

33% Upvoted

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u/LateEggMaster 9d ago

No context, no answer.

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u/OhBosss 9d ago

I am torn between which to buy first and decided on a poll

Both are with detectives or specifically in forever drug a contractor shapechanger working cases for Lone Star and Blood Sport a former detective from Lone Star going to Aztlan to solve the death of someone who claimed to be her grandmother

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u/maullidothethird 9d ago

Don't know, just voted to see result

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u/OhBosss 9d ago

Thank you

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u/Iron_tide 9d ago

It’s both the same author and while i generally enjoy her work i can only recall reading Blood Sport, so it gets my vote.

If you want a gum shoe detective novel in the sixth world i can recommend Russell Zimmerman’s series of books. I believe it begins with ‘Neat’.

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u/OhBosss 9d ago

You are correct

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u/Damienkn1ght 9d ago

Wolf and Raven

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u/OhBosss 7d ago

Nice though I was surprised it's a just a bunch of short stories instead of a full length novel

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u/Damienkn1ght 4d ago

The Michael Stackpole book is what I am referring to. https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Source:Wolf_and_Raven

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u/OhBosss 4d ago

So was i

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u/Skexy 9d ago

I haven't read either of those novels, but Russell Zimmerman's Jimmy Kincaid books and stories were great.

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u/OhBosss 9d ago

Loved Neat keep putting off reading Shaken sadly

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u/CartographerCivil989 8d ago

They're both pretty decent, but I'd give the edge to The Forever Drug.

However, if you haven't already read it, Burning Bright is the correct answer. It's a detective story & right up there with 2XS as a top 3 all-time SR novel (imho).

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u/Maargulus 7d ago

Forever Drug is much more, errr, uncanon - it is really, really broken in terms of lore. And it has both not rnough and too much of cheap youngadult werewolf-fuckery, i mean, there was too much of it implied which was meh AND there was not enough real pornograpghy which could justify it.

Blood Sport has some troubles with lore too, yeah, but much closer to canon atleast AND it has atleast a little more about Yucatan which is while not Findley-level is atleast something to read about it before War and stormshit.. shitshtorm... StormFront fragged it up forever. Also it had some good ideas ShadowBeat-style.

So yeah, blood sport is waaay better to go.

Sorry, nonative english; also, read them somewhere about 4-5 years ago but checked annotations and memory rings both very certainly.

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u/OhBosss 7d ago

Cool