List of Shadowrun books
A list of the English language Shadowrun books, with their SKU numbers.
Magazines
There were two short lived, FASA approved, paper magazines for Shadowrun. The first—KA•GE—was published by The Shadowrun Network, with thirteen issues. The second—Shadowland—was published by Sword of the Knight Publications, with seven issues.† If there was no in game date on the cover, the most recent date-stamp within the issue is listed.
‡ This was Issue 11, but somehow the eleven was misinterpreted as a Roman numeral and changed into a "2".
† The most recent date-stamp within the issue.
Novels and other fiction
published the original trade paperback through Contemporary Books. All subsequent novels were published by ROC, 40 with FASA, and six with WizKids. When the FASA era novels were re-released in 2003 the ISBNs were updated to include FASA's four digit SKU, prior to this the FASA SKU and ISBN were generally unrelated. The six novels produced by WizKids circa 2006 were loosely linked to Shadowrun Duels.Alongside translations of the English-language novels and RPG books, German publishers Heyne and Fantasy Productions put out a number of original German-language novels, written exclusively by German authors and also set in Germany. Even after publication of English-language novels stopped in 2001 both publishers continued to put out original novels in Germany until license shifts occurred in 2008.
By that time, Catalyst Game Labs announced that new English Shadowrun novels would be released starting in 2009. As of mid-2011, only one has been published. A stand-alone novella was released in November 2012, perhaps with more to come.
| # | FASA SKU | Title | Author | ISBN | Date | Notes |
| 0 | 7601 | Into the Shadows | 1990-02 | First Shadowrun fiction-only release. A trade paperback short story anthology set in 2050. The stories loosely interacted with one another. | ||
| 1 | 5078 | Never Deal with a Dragon | 1990-12 | The year is 2050. The power of magic and the creatures that accompany it have returned to Earth. For Sam Verner, living in the womb of the Renraku conglomerate was easy, until his sister disappeared and reality began to disintegrate. Now Sam wants out, but he must face the world of Shadowrun. | ||
| 2 | 5125 | Choose Your Enemies Carefully | 1991-02 | When magic returns, its power calls Sam Verner. As Sam searches for his sister through the slick and scary streets of 2050, his quest leads him across the ocean to England, where druids rule the streets... and the throne. But all is not what it seems, and Sam and his new shadow friends are plunged into a maze of madness on the trail of destruction. Only when Sam accepts his destiny as a shaman can he embrace the power he needs. But what waits for him in the final confrontation of technology and human flesh is a secret much darker than anything he knew waiting in the shadows... | ||
| 3 | 5145 | Find Your Own Truth | 1991-06 2003-06 | He was only a beginner shaman, but Sam Verner had to find a cure to ward off the curse on his sister. Only something of great magic would do the trick. | ||
| 4 | 5210 | 2XS | 1992-02 2003-07 | Private Detective Dirk Montgomery thinks he knows the streets. He watched the change of the world, as magic grows and alter the balance of power, he thinks he understands the deepest shadows and the darkest of hearts. He was wrong…. | ||
| 5 | 5218 | Changeling | 1992-06 2003-06 | Chicago - Peter Clarris was a human boy who changed into a troll. He grows up surviving as a shadowrunner. | ||
| 6 | 5220 | Never Trust an Elf | 1992-08 2003-06 | When Kham, an ork living in the Seattle ghetto in the year 2053, is suddenly snatched from his day-to-day existence and thrust into a world of dragons, he learns the hard way whom to trust. | ||
| 7 | 5143 | Into the Shadows | 1992-10 | Anthology. “Into the Shadows” by Robert Charrette was replaced by “A Plague of Demons” by Tom Dowd since the former had been expanded into Never Deal with a Dragon. Some sites list a FASA SKU of 5189 based on the ISBN, although the generally reliable listed 5143. | ||
| 8 | 5199 | Streets of Blood | & Marc Gascoigne | 1992-12 | Murder, Mystery, Intrigue and Betrayal! A story in foggy old England of 2054, the 1st book with elven mage Serrin Shamander and British Lord Geraint Llanfrechfa. | |
| 9 | 5302-1 | Shadowplay | 1993-02 | - Sly is a veteran. She's run more shadows than she cares to remember, and has the physical and emotional scars to prove it. But no matter how violent it became, it had always been business as usual. Until now. Falcon is a kid. He thinks he hears the call of magic, and the voice of one of the Great Spirits seems to whisper in his hear. He's gone to Seattle, the urban jungle, to seek his calling. Thrown together, veteran and novice, Sly and Falcon find themselves embroiled in a deadly confrontation between the world's most powerful corporations. If this confrontation is not stopped it could turn into all-out warfare, spilling out of the shadows and onto the streets themselves. | ||
| 10 | 5310 | Night's Pawn | 1993-04 2003-06 | Jason Chase is a longtime shadowrunner. After many good years, he is trying to get out. While he can... | ||
| 11 | 5313 | Striper Assassin | 1993-06 2003-06 | Prey for the hunter. For the world of humans knows her as Striper, the deadly Asian assassin and kick-artist. She has come to the City of Brotherly Love seeking revenge and made it her killing ground. But she is not the only predator stalking the dark underbelly of the Philadelphia metroplex. There are other hunters prowling the night, and some possess a power even greater than hers. | ||
| 12 | 5367 | Lone Wolf | 1994-02 2003-06 | With gangs conquering the streets of Seattle, Rick Larson, doing undercover work for Lone Star, Seattle's contracted police force, finds himself on the wrong side of the law. | ||
| 13 | 5365 | Fade to Black | 1994-04 2003-06 | Newark Megaplex - Rico and his shadow runners are hired to retrieve a scientist who is being held against his will by a corporation. This simple retrieval becomes ever so more complicated, endangering their lives. | ||
| 14 | 5427 | Nosferatu | & Marc Gascoigne | 1994-08 2003-06 | Mage and part-time shadowrunner Serrin Shamander and his companions desperately flee a relentless, demonic enemy out to eliminate humankind from the face of the earth. This is the 2nd book with renegade elven mage Serrin Shamander and British Lord Geraint Llanfrechfa. | |
| 15 | 5445 | Burning Bright | 1994-11 | Chicago - Kyle Teller tries to find a missing megacorp giant CEO's son, and discovers more than he bargained for, a threat that could ultimately engulf all of metahumanity. | ||
| 16 | 5448 | Who Hunts the Hunter | 1995-05 2003-06 | - Striper's cub is stolen from her, only through betrayal could this happen. Now guided by her instincts, the werecat resumes her human guise, reclaims her cub and a strong dose of vengeance, leading her down the trail to dangers of the Rotten Apple aka New York Megaplex. This semi-sequel to Striper Assassin introduces characters from previous Nyx Smith SR novels. | ||
| 17 | 5495 | House of the Sun | 1995-07 2003-06 | Venturing to the Kingdom of Hawaii when a megacorporate exec demands payment of an old debt, shadowrunner Dirk Montgomery finds himself having to outrun the corrupt factions battling for control of the island. | ||
| 18 | 5496 | Worlds Without End | 1995-10 2003-06 | Aina is an immortal elf, she has woken into a reawakened era of magic to stop ancient evil from destroying the world. This story was originally written to conclude the Immortals trilogy; of which the first two parts were Earthdawn novels still unpublished at the time. Scars was published in 2005, and Little Treasures remains unpublished in English. | ||
| 19 | 5537 | 1996-01 2003-06 | Becoming accidentally involved with shadowrunners, Andy and his disenchanted army major brother, Tom, uncover a sinister web of corrupt politicians and officers that threatens to dismantle the UCAS government. | |||
| 20 | 5539 | Black Madonna | & Marc Gascoigne | 1996-04 | - MegaCorp enlists an elite decker, who reunited with old friends from England to try to keep a megacorp from being blackmailed by a super hacker. They come to discover that ancient powers are clashing to prevent a secret from being told. This is the 3rd book with renegade elven mage Serrin Shamander and British Lord Geraint Llanfrechfa. | |
| 21 | 5540 | Preying for Keeps | 1996-07 | A small-time mobster wants to go legit—and what better way than manipulating two biogenetic engineering corporations into corporate war? So when a shadowrunning team is brought in by one of the companies to recover vital computer chips believed stolen by the competition, they uncover a tangled plot more devious than anything they could have imagined. | ||
| 22 | 5542 | Dead Air | 1996-10 | Jonathan and Tamara, two elven bikers try to survive a megacorp rigging their sport, Combat Biking! | ||
| 23 | 5594 | The Lucifer Deck | 1997-01 | In its efforts to control all information in the Shadowrun universe, a giant corporation inadvertently calls up a violent spirit from another dimension, and only a young girl can save the universe from the ensuing havoc. | ||
| 24 | 5627 | Steel Rain | 1997-03 | - A corporate security samurai must fight to defend her megacorp from being taken over by a relentless enemy. | ||
| 25 | 5628 | Shadowboxer | 1997-05 2003-06 | Miami - Adam Two Bear, a dwarf mercenary accustomed to running in the shadows, is given a job that sounded like an easy run and a way to make a huge stack of cash: track down and discover the meaning of the word of "IronHell". But when a decker he approached gets her brain fried in the Matrix, Two Bears knows he up to his stout little shoulders in drek. | ||
| 26 | 5629 | Stranger Souls | 1997-07 2003-06 | Dragon Heart #1 In this first book of "The Dragonheart Saga", the shocking assassination of newly elected President Dunkelzahn shatters the dawn of a new era for the denizens of the Shadowrun universe. Now as shadowrunners, Secret Service agents, and mega-corp execs scramble for the reins of power, only a miracle can save the world from total annihilation! | ||
| 27 | 5630 | Headhunters | 1997-10 2003-06 | Jack Slater and his shadowrunner team are hired to penetrate the high-tech security around a funeral home and retrieve the corpse of a double agent—a hot property that holds the key to an assassination. Original. | ||
| 28 | 5631 | Clockwork Asylum | 1997-11 2003-06 | Dragon Heart #2 The maelstrom of cyber-magic and political intrigue following President Dunkelzahn's assassination rages out of control. Ryan Mercury, Dunkelzahn's secret agent, is torn between his duty and his desire to find a killer. But when a spirit wrongly concludes that Ryan is working for the enemy, he anoints a cyberzombie to carry out a hit of its own. Now with an impressive arsenal of allies, weaponry, and the Dragon Heart, Ryan just might pull off the save of the century—if he doesn't lose his life first! | ||
| 29 | 5709 | Blood Sport | 1998-01 2003-06 | Mama Grande streaked into Leni's life like a nightmare on wheels. Arriving out of nowhere, she claimed to be the ex-Lone Star detective's grandmother, and spouted dire prophecies of rivers of blood and a world in flames. But her bizarre murder prompts Leni and Combat Biker wannabe Rafael to investigate Mama Grande's past...straight into the dark heart of Aztlan-a lost civilization where human sacrifice is all the rage, and ancient ceremonial games could trigger the end of the world! | ||
| 30 | 5710 | Beyond the Pale | 1998-03 2003-06 | - The Enemies with unlimited powers, ultimate evil is about to arrive, Ryan Mercury and his runners have only two options left: Victory or Death | ||
| 31 | 5711 | Technobabel | 1998-05 2003-06 | - Boston Metroplex - Babel awoke in a body bag, his brain fried, a black hole where his memory should be. If not for his cool carbon-fiber blade concealed in his bones, he would've been dead for sure. What he does know, is that he not who he was anymore. He is now otaku, a technoshaman of the Matrix, with powers over the Matrix similar to what a traditional shaman of magic has over spirits and the natural world. Now, everyone is after him, he doesn't know why. | ||
| 32 | 5712 | Wolf and Raven | 1998-07 2003-06 | The adventures of Wolfgang Kies, soldier of fortune. Together with a group of cyborg bounty hunters and computer wizards, he assists elf lord Dr. Richard Raven in keeping humanity safe from preying monsters—both magical and technological! But crime lord Etienne LaPlante interferes with their vigilantism, preparing to strike at Raven and those who serve him.... | ||
| 33 | 5713 | Psychotrope | 1998-10 2003-06 | - Seattle's Matrix suddenly goes down, and only 5 deckers can save it and possibly the Matrix from collapsing completely. | ||
| 34 | 5714 | The Terminus Experiment | & Jonathan E. Bond | 1999-01 2003-06 | Seattle - A conspiracy arrives to spread a plague of vampires. Warren Storey must discover the reason for the plague before time runs out. | |
| 35 | 5741 | Run Hard, Die Fast | 1999-02 2003-06 | Top shadowrunner and street samurai Argent meets with a potential client only to be caught in the middle of a deadly corporation crossfire that leaves corpses scattered across the streets. It turns out the meeting was arranged by Argent's former lover, who is trapped in the Pueblo Corporate Council lands. On the run and hunted by assault teams, she knows that Argent's samurai code of honor will drive him to protect her. But in order to save her, he must confront the secrets of his past, and assemble a rag-tag team of mercenaries to elude the three corporations that have decided everyone involved would be better off dead. | ||
| 36 | 5742 | Crossroads | 1999-04 2003-06 | - - Boston Metroplex: Tommy Talon, a member of the elite shadowrunner group Assets, Inc., is drawn back to home by secrets from his past, which lead to conflicts with megacorporations, Yakuza gangsters and a powerful spirit that's hunting him down. Talon must use all his powers and abilities with the aid of shadowrunning friends to unravel the mystery. | ||
| 37 | 5749 | The Forever Drug | 1999-06 2004-02 | A shapeshifter and freelance agent for the Lone Star police department, Romulus risks his life to save a beautiful amnesiac woman from ruthless drug dealers who are peddling the ultimate high—a magical creature that gives its victims an extraordinary feeling of euphoria before it destroys them. | ||
| 38 | 5775 | Ragnarock | 2000-02 2003-06 | - - Germany - Tom Talon and his shadowrunners of Boston have been called in to retrieve a rogue archaeologist who has found ancient artifacts. However, things are more than they seem. | ||
| 39 | 5819 | Tails You Lose | 2001-02 2003-06 | - Framed for a crime she didn't commit, she's now trying prove her innocence before time runs out for her. | ||
| 40 | 5839 | The Burning Time | 2001-08 | - Boston Metroplex - Low-level programmer Roy Kilaro wants nothing more but to become a Seraphim, an elite corporation operative, and experience some real live action in the shadow ops between megacorporations. He gets more than he ever wanted when a routine business trip to Boston lands him at ground zero of a running battle for survival. The combatants: a group of hardened 'runners trying to finish a job, the ruthless anti-elven terrorist group known as the Knights of the Red Branch, and a powerful sorceress who wants revenge upon them all... | ||
| 41 | ???? | Private Agenda | N/A | N/A | announced in Europe, never released |
| # | Title | Author | ISBN | Date | Notes |
| 1 | Born To Run | 2005-11 | Seattle Metroplex - Kellan Colt goes to Seattle to learn how to be a professional shadowrunner and discover her past. | ||
| 2 | Poison Agendas | 2006-01 | Seattle Metroplex - Kellan Colt tries to do her first solo mission, but there's more to it than it seems. Can she handle it? | ||
| 3 | Fallen Angels | 2006-03 | - Kellan Colt's past returns, hidden truths are revealed. Will she survive to discover the truth? | ||
| 4 | Drops of Corruption | 2006-05 | - Burned-out shaman Bannickburn tries to return to glory by working for the Mob. | ||
| 5 | Aftershock | & John Helfers | 2006-07 | - A shadowrun team steal plants for a client, only to be set up for a crime by their client. | |
| 6 | A Fistful of Data | 2006-10 | - Inhabitants of the Crypt must fight for their home as someone tries to get at a secret inside of it. |
| # | Title | Author | ASIN | Date | Notes |
| 1 | Spells & Chrome | E-CAT26850 | 2010-May-14 2010-Dec-22 | ePub Anthology 1 book | |
| 2 | Sail Away, Sweet Sister | E-CAT26S041 | 2014-Apr-22 | ePub Novella. Classified as "enhanced fiction". | |
| 3 | Neat | 2012-Nov-10 | ePub Novella | ||
| 4 | The Vladivostok Gauntlet | E-CAT26S030 | 2013-Sep-16 | ePub Novella. Classified as "enhanced fiction". | |
| 5 | Fire & Frost | 2014-Jul-02 2014-Aug-26 | ePub Novel book | ||
| 6 | Nothing Personal | E-CAT26S038 | 2014-Aug-10 | ePub Novella | |
| 7 | Another Rainy Night | E-CAT26S022 | 2013-Sep-13 | ePub Novella Classified as "enhanced fiction". | |
| 8 | Hell on Water | 2014-Dec-25 | epub Novel | ||
| 9 | Dark Resonance | 2014-Dec-28 | epub Novel | ||
| 10 | DocWagon 19 | 2015-Mar-19 | ePub Novella | ||
| 11 | Crimson | 2015-Apr-1 | ePub Novel | ||
| 12 | Borrowed Time | 2015-May-26 | ePub Novel | ||
| 13 | Shaken: No Job Too Small | 2015-Jul-13 | ePub Novel | ||
| 14 | Wolf & Buffalo | 2015-Aug-19 | ePub Novella Classified as "enhanced fiction". | ||
| 15 | Deniable Assets | 2016-Feb-05 | ePub Novel | ||
| 16 | World of Shadows | 2016-Feb-06 | Anthology 2 | ||
| 17 | Drawing Destiny: A Sixth World Tarot Anthology | 2016-Sep-03 | Anthology 3 | ||
| 18 | Big Dreams | 2016-Dec-02 | ePub Novella | ||
| 19 | Blind Magic | 2017-Mar-06 | ePub Novella |