Steps into the shadows…

Here’s a quick primer on Shadowrun:

• Corporations are bad (truth)

• Tolkien, but cyberpunk (magic, elves, and tech)

• Shadowrunners are morally complex (or murdery. Or good! Usually somewhere in between)

• Matrix = Internet and VR teaming up to kill you

• If that’s not enough, you can take a giant elevator and visit a space station (might also get you killed)

• Also: Dragons.

…there’s more. A lot more, This world has been around since 1989, and it’s a vast, fun world to explore. I consider myself lucky to get to write for the amazing team at Catalyst Games Lab to bring tiny specs of this world to life, and explore some of those shadows and death-dealing spaces.

Or, sometimes just to gossip!

Check out Shadowrun: Augment issue 1 (issue 2 is up for preorder), where I’ve been having fun writing the fashion, gossip, and classified columns, under the deft editioral vision of Hugo nominee Jennifer Brozek. Shadowrun does not shy away from the pressing issues people want to read about, like rumors surrounding a corp exec’s death and also the latest in tech that’ll save you, but in a fashionable way.

Also, the second novella in my Shadowrun: Top Drek series is out, with found family, a missing bus(!), a glittering unicorn, and rock and roll! Grab the first two e-books before the third one comes out. They’re a good, gentle entrypoint into this vast and fun world!