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These are recommendations made by Tropers for System Shock fanfics, all of which have to be signed to stay on the page. Feel free to add a fanfic of your own to the list, but remember to use the template found here.
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Authors, and Websites
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General Fics
Stories focused on the family and the friendly relationships of the cast. Plot-focused stories or light day-in-the-life stories. Pretty much anything that isn't focused on romance.
Free Radical by Shamus Young
- Recommended by Robin Zimm, Joysweeper, Electron Blue, Korodzik, Jonn
- Synopsis: A reimagining of the events of System Shock in novel form, beginning before the beginning of the game. It opens when a black-hat hacker tries to break into TriOptimum's computer system to steal a new computer-interfacing neural implant, and ends up being brought up onto the special research satellite and offered the implant if he will do a little job. But when he wakes up after a six-week "healing coma"(shortened from the game's six months), the lights are flickering, the robots are acting strange, people are lurching around like 28 Days Later zombies, and there's a frantic radio signal from Earth trying to find out what is going on up there...
- Comments: I came to Free Radical from a perspective of literally zero knowledge of the videogame. Knowing that, and judging it purely as a standalone science fiction novel, I found it a fantastic read.
- Joysweeper: I knew a little and ended up Youtube-ing the game so I could get SHODAN's voice fixed in my head. This is pretty good. There are some occasional poor word choices and grammar quirks, but it's a compelling enough narrative to make up for it.
- LATER: ...Eh. Grammatical errors got worse as the story progressed. One of the lines is '"Are you ok hacker" she asked.' It also deviated pretty far from the game's ending. Very far. I mean, SHODAN was hacked to give her empathy, then she repented and came to Earth? Really? I was watching a Let's Play as I read. ...Also, afterwards I contracted a fever and dreamed I was a rogue cyborg on Citadel Station leading a resistance. That was weird.
- ...more like she fused with the Hacker a'la Ghost in the Shell, "The Network is Huge"... only a Saint Paul reference could have made it more explicit.
- LATER: ...Eh. Grammatical errors got worse as the story progressed. One of the lines is '"Are you ok hacker" she asked.' It also deviated pretty far from the game's ending. Very far. I mean, SHODAN was hacked to give her empathy, then she repented and came to Earth? Really? I was watching a Let's Play as I read. ...Also, afterwards I contracted a fever and dreamed I was a rogue cyborg on Citadel Station leading a resistance. That was weird.
- Joysweeper: I knew a little and ended up Youtube-ing the game so I could get SHODAN's voice fixed in my head. This is pretty good. There are some occasional poor word choices and grammar quirks, but it's a compelling enough narrative to make up for it.
- I thought this was an excellent re-imagining of System Shock's plot, especially the ending. A hard-core Shock fan may not like the changes to the story, but it's a really good way to bring the story to the medium of print, though as noticed by the above it has a few grammatical errors. Highly recommended.
Shipping Fics
Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.
- SHODAN and......videogame journalist Kieron Gillen? YMMV.