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Line 15: ''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.'' ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20151107223520/http://www.shamusyoung.com/shocked/index.html Free Radical]'' by Shamus Young * Recommended by [[Robin Zimm~~]], [[Joysweeper]], Electron Blue, [[Korodzik]], [[Tropers/Jonn\|Jonn]]~~ * Synopsis: A reimagining of the events of [[System Shock]] in novel form, beginning before the beginning of the game. It opens when a [[The Cracker\|black-hat hacker]] tries to break into [[Mega Corp\|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 [[System Shock\|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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID2BEXJ4IKc 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, {{spoiler\|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 {{spoiler\|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.}} 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\|Shipping Fics]] == ''Stories focused on the romantic relationships between the cast.'' SHODAN and......videogame journalist Kieron Gillen? [http://gillen.cream.org/wordpress_html/?page_id=1103 YMMV.] {{reflist}} ~~[[Category:Fan Fic Recommendations]]~~ [[Category:System Shock]] [[Category:Fanfic Recs]]