SHADOWRUNNING

Spook Country…

Enoc August 9, 2007 Books

Tonight Ling and I are heading to Spook Country …. actually we are heading to Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley to see/hear William Gibson talk about and I am sure read from his new book Spook Country… Clearly Gibson is one of the pioneers of Cyberpunk and either Ling or I will have a report back [&hellip

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All The World’s Indeed a Stage …

Ling August 6, 2007 Music

Well, “Spook Country” I hear has a rock star protagonist. Rock stars have appeared in a few cyberpunk stories, one of them actually on my list of “Book I’ve Never Finished.” But a modern day concert a cyberpunk bloggable event? Oh hell ya! Especially if it’s RUSH. CONCERT SPOILERS BELOW I should note, just in [&hellip

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A Fistful of Steampunk!

Ling August 3, 2007 Steampunk

Interesting site, A Fistful of Games, has a write-up of playing a steampunk board game, or a modified rule set of another game to encompass steampunk elements. Or something. OK. I didn’t really read it all the way through, but I intend to. So I’m bloggin it here to remind me! Anywho — we’ve really [&hellip

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Blogging from Firefox

Enoc August 3, 2007 Blog Business

Just found this great Firefox addon called ScribeFire (actually Ling told me about it). It allows you to blog directly from within Firefox. Very cool you should check it out. Powered by ScribeFire

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Shadowrun the series Part 2

Enoc August 3, 2007 Books

So what makes the Shadowrun Novels so special? Glad you asked. As I said in my previous post I was really a fantasy book reader prior to reading the first book in the Shadowrun series Never Deal with a Dragon. What made Shadowrun so unique was that it combined Science Fiction with Magic. The premise [&hellip

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Shadowrun the series Part 1

Enoc August 2, 2007 Books

I mentioned earlier that this site’s name is an homage to the Shadowrun Novels and thought I would expand on the series a little bit and tell you why I enjoy it so much. First of all Shadowrun started out as a RPG ( role playing game ). I have to admit I have never [&hellip

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Bloggers start your Engines..

Enoc July 31, 2007 Blog Business, Books

Just a note that I will be joined by Ling in blogging on shadowrunning.com. Ling and I go way back (30 years or so) and have to say that of the two of us he is better “read” than I and far more articulate. While I stumble along with my posts, Ling will be churning [&hellip

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What is Cyberpunk?

Ling July 31, 2007 Books, General Cyberpunk

Well, far be it from me to offer a definitive definition, but I know it when I read it. It’s usually near-future distopian literature with some cybernetics and some punks (ie hackers). Virtual Reality, the net, feature large in most cyberpunk. To put it in movie terms, Blade Runner, not Star Wars. Brasil, in which [&hellip

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iPhone? You Phone?

Enoc July 31, 2007 Gadgets

Well along with my interest in Cyberpunk is an unhealthy interest in “gadgets” (just an extension of cyberpunk lust). In particular I am a appleophile ( all you MS lovers run for the hills ) and I guess in gadgets in general. I was not one of those people that ran out and bought an [&hellip

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What is Shadowrunning?

Enoc July 30, 2007 General Cyberpunk

I shouldn’t have to explain myself here but Shadowrunning might just be obscure enough of a term to warrant a little defining. ” A Shadowrun, by definition, is an illegal covert operation performed by independent operators (Shadowrunners) at the behest of a third party. ” So what the hell does it have to do with [&hellip