[T-Hatchet]

Getting back into Shadowrun with Shadowrn 5th Edition (PDF, my local book shops says it will be the end of September at least before they see the print ones in the UK and don't hope for a limited edition one) I would love to get back into Shadowrun Novels (read Changeling way back when and have been searching for Burning Bright for years) but all the links on http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/products/fiction/ other than Shadowrun: Spells & Chrome (trying to sort out how to read that on my tech) are dead links.
Can someone point me to other working Amazon or BattleCorps links for Shadowrun fiction.
I would also love some recommendations.

[GiraffeShaman]

Old novels should be easy to find on Amazon. That's where I bought many.

Changeling is indeed a fantastic book. 2XS by Nigel Findley and Fade to Black by Nyx Smith are my other two top favorites, along with Changeling. The Kellan Colt Trilogy by Stephen Kenson, starting with Born to Run are also good.

Anything by Nigel Findley, Nyx Smith, Stephen Kenson, or Robert N. Charrette I usually enjoy.

[Critias]

My general advice is twofold:

1)  Nigel Findley and Michael Stackpole.

2)  Read all of it you can.  Snag 'em up on eBay in big piles of books (doing searches for "shadowrun lot" or something) for super cheap, and call it a win.  Score a bunch of 'em for like seventy-five cents each, and even if you bite in and don't like any particular book, you're probably gonna be okay in the long run.  Cast a wide net.  Haul in as many as you can.

And -- breaking from my usual advice, here! -- hold up hope!  New fiction is coming.  Licensing stuff's been tackled and we're good to go for about a half dozen paperbacks in the next few years.

[Justice]

Great. Thanks for the update Critias.

[AJCarrington]

New fiction is coming.  Licensing stuff's been tackled and we're good to go for about a half dozen paperbacks in the next few years.

This brings a smile to m face I'd love to see 2-3 releases a year, but appreciate my wants don't always translate well to the mandates of others.

[TonyK]

My general advice is twofold:

1)  Nigel Findley and Michael Stackpole.

2)  Read all of it you can.  Snag 'em up on eBay in big piles of books (doing searches for "shadowrun lot" or something) for super cheap, and call it a win.  Score a bunch of 'em for like seventy-five cents each, and even if you bite in and don't like any particular book, you're probably gonna be okay in the long run.  Cast a wide net.  Haul in as many as you can.

And -- breaking from my usual advice, here! -- hold up hope!  New fiction is coming.  Licensing stuff's been tackled and we're good to go for about a half dozen paperbacks in the next few years.

What about licensing on the earlier novels?  Weren't there issues on those?  Would love to see the older stuff (both SR and BT) make it back, in any e-reader format.  They used to have that available in Kindle format, then they got yanked before I thought to get them.  Darned hindsight...

[Archone]

I will be honest: I'm not overly fond of Nyx Smith's stuff. The character of Striper in particular is a very unsympathetic and uninteresting character. Though one of his books did a great job of showing what happens when a Run goes totally to drek. I agree about Michael Stackpole. In particular, Wolf and Raven is an EXCELLENT read. I don't know if it's the best for getting into the setting, but it is an extremely entertaining book. And the Shadowrunners that Raven employs are a very interesting bunch.

[SamTwist]

Last week, I stumbled upon a garage sale where someone was selling all his Shadowrun novels.
I got all 41 of them at 1$ each, I was greedy enough to haggle the lot for 40$!

They were only read once and are in perfect condition!
I'm currently reading through the first one of the Dragon Heart Trilogy, Stanger Souls, since I've been playing Earthdawn for like 8 years, I was told this trilogy was the closest thing I could find that ties the two together.

I'm halfway through it and it's really good! At least in my opinion.

[CanRay]

Last week, I stumbled upon a garage sale where someone was selling all his Shadowrun novels.
I got all 41 of them at 1$ each, I was greedy enough to haggle the lot for 40$!

You lucky...

[Yogi]

Nice.   My wife was trying to get me to sell my SR novels in our up coming garage sale.   She got a flat out NO for an answer.   

[CanRay]

Nice.   My wife was trying to get me to sell my SR novels in our up coming garage sale.   She got a flat out NO for an answer.

I made the very stupid mistake of selling them when I moved away from the province.

[Silence]

Old novels should be easy to find on Amazon. That's where I bought many.

Changeling is indeed a fantastic book. 2XS by Nigel Findley and Fade to Black by Nyx Smith are my other two top favorites, along with Changeling. The Kellan Colt Trilogy by Stephen Kenson, starting with Born to Run are also good.

Anything by Nigel Findley, Nyx Smith, Stephen Kenson, or Robert N. Charrette I usually enjoy.

You forgot Mel Odom.  And as far as it goes for Striper being unsympathetic, she's a frigging tiger, she's not supposed to be sympathetic.  The other characters in the books were supposed to be sympathetic, and interesting, as well.  I loved Dirk "I'm not a shadowrunner" Montgomery, particularly when he was dealing with an incognito Harlequin.  The Serrin Samander books were interesting, too.

[GiraffeShaman]

You forgot Mel Odom.  And as far as it goes for Striper being unsympathetic, she's a frigging tiger, she's not supposed to be sympathetic.  The other characters in the books were supposed to be sympathetic, and interesting, as well.  I loved Dirk "I'm not a shadowrunner" Montgomery, particularly when he was dealing with an incognito Harlequin.  The Serrin Samander books were interesting, too.

Both Bandit and Rico were fantastic characters. I preferred Fade to Black over the first Striper novel, as it was focused more on a Shadowrun. My problem with some of the novels is that they forget to have actual shadowruns in the novel.

[Silence]

Hey, 90% of an excellent run is getting paid to do what you were planning on doing anyway.

[Eldritch]

I still say Into The Shadows was the best one they ever did.