Talk:List of Shadowrun books

Dupe entries

I couldn't be bothered to add any more alternate ISBN and FASA codes for the novels but there are plenty of others out there besides the ones listed. 70.81.193.217 09:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

The number on the spine of the novels is not the FASA SKU number, it is the ROC SKU number. ISBNs are a combination of a regional prefix, a number that identifies the publishing company, the publishing company's SKU for that book, and a check-sum digit. The FASA SKU numbers come from the FASA catalogs, which can be viewed at the links I provided. —MJBurrage • TALK • 00:31, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Author links

Chris Kubasik

The link Chris Kubasik does not seem to lead to the author. --09:26, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I noticed that, too. The Kubasik on the Wikipedia page doesn't have any link to Shadowrun from the Google searches I just did. 24.119.67.199 (talk) 08:09, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

For at least one publication—"Missing Blood" from The Universal Brotherhood—FASA spelled his name "Chris Kybasik". —MJBurrage^(T•C) 21:03, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Tom Dowd

Same with Tom Dowd. --10:10, 14 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.74.56.135 (talk • contribs)

Here is A link (not sure it's the best) to the right Tom Dowd http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/7B5/78B (144.92.85.41 (talk) 20:30, 18 August 2008 (UTC))

The Tom Dowd that gets linked to in the novel list is not the right Tom Dowd, as a quick Google for "tom dowd shadowrun" turns up this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DLO94Zy9c0 Can someone fix that, then, as the musician and the sci-fi writer are two different people?

More Novels

Here in germany we have some novels more, but I dont know if this is worth of notice here. A general overview did I found here: http://shadowhelix.de/B%C3%BCcher (or more compact in the german wiki http://de.wiki.x.io/wiki/Liste_der_Shadowrun-Romane )

--Stan T. Lor (talk) 05:04, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

By all means add them in and indicate they are German. Canterbury Tail talk 11:55, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

I've got one called "Eyes Of The Rigger" in English, written by Hans Joachim Alpers, that's not on the main listing. It's obviously better known in German, given all the listings for it are in that language, but I have it right in front of me. 86.155.222.125 (talk) 08:34, 21 August 2016 (UTC)

Cryptic publisher information

Is there a way we can just add a column to the tables listing the publisher instead of having to decipher the serial number for each one? —Memotype::T 02:25, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Accidently deletion of Novel listings

Due to my mistake of copying pasting, i've accidently erased entired listing of Shadowrun Novels. I am unable undo this. I will try to fix it, but i've done terrible damage. Can someone help fix this? Colt9033::T 02:25, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Done. Now go to your room without dinner. :) It's easily done, I've done similar in the past. Canterbury Tail talk 14:02, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate entry: Ghost Cartels

Ghost Cartels is listed in sourcebooks and adventures. We should chose one. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 02:08, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Merged some lists

Per above, I merged all sourcebooks into one category. The orginal split was a bit ORish, and the new official one (ref) is only for new books. Rulebooks, sourcebooks (with notes section) and adventures seem reasonable. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 03:25, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Apparent SKU reuse

Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) are internal identifiers used by many manufactures. In printing they also often appear on the books themselves, and may be conflated with ISBNs. While it may be confusing, it is not a mistake, if a new publisher uses the same number as an old publisher for a different product.

SKU	FanPro book	Catalyst book
26001	SR4 Limited Edition	Street Magic 2nd print
26002	SR4 Gamemaster's Screen	Augmentation
26003	On The Run	Arsenal
26004	Street Magic 1st print	Unwired
26005	Runner Havens	Runner's Companion

FanPro used the numbers in the order the books were released. Catalyst used them for the "core" books. Because of this, some distributors add an abbreviation before the number. For example, a distributor might use FPR26005 for Runner Havens and CGL26005 for Runner's Companion but that does not makes those letters part of the actual SKU. —MJBurrage^(T•C) 18:31, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining this. I think this could be added to the article as a note from all affected positions. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 18:39, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

With one exception (which I just took care of) this is covered by the SKU columns in the tables which indicate which company used which SKU. —MJBurrage^(T•C) 19:16, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Different FASA SKUs on the novels?

I recently started collecting the ROC novels, and while creating my checklist and ticking off books I noticed that the SKU on the spine only matches what's in the article two or three times (out of 18). I wasn't able to find the listed number anywhere on the books when it was different. 98.235.210.3 (talk) 17:50, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

"On the Run" reprint

It's listed as it was not reprinted, but actualy it was reprinted as part of the runner's toolkit

Needs updating

Just in case someone wants to get to it before I do, a lot of the publication TBA's and such are out of date. I'll check in on it in a couple of days when I get some more time and fix it myself probably. Jacktim (talk) 04:00, 23 February 2015 (UTC)JackTIM

Novels by Catalyst Game Labs

Hi!
I've found some books which are not part of the list:
- Wolf & Buffalo by R. L. King (goodreads)
- Big Dreams by R. L. King (goodreads, LibraryThing)
- Blind Magic by Dylan Birtolo (goodreads, LibraryThing)
- DocWagon 19 by Jennifer Brozek (goodreads, LibraryThing)
Regards, --Simy (talk) 10:02, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

They're not novels though, they're short stories/novellas. So I'm not sure about them. Since they're novella sized I'd say they should be. Canterbury Tail talk 11:04, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

Specially that Nothing Personal, which is on the list, is only 20 pages long. --Simy (talk) 16:51, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Default order of the sourcebook table

Hello!

I can't find any logic on the sourcebook table. If there is, please write it above the table.

Thanks, --Simy (talk) 19:42, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Link to pages in other languages when they contain only a list of novels?

The german website currently contains only the novels; should the link remain in the sidebar or be replaced by a link to an english page containing only the novels (which then links to the german page with the list of novels)? In other words, should the RPG books and the novels be kept on separate lists or not? What do you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:19C0:82E9:3D1F:23EA:790F:974B (talk) 09:17, 21 June 2019 (UTC)