Shadowrun Sorcebook Dates

Following is a table containing the dates for FASA-published sourcebooks for Shadowrun, and is useful for gamemasters who want to introduce them into their campaign when it reaches the point the book is available in the game world.

Two dates are given for each book, namely the earliest and latest dates given in the sourcebook. The reason for this is that most sourcebooks appear over time in the game world, and the book is obviously available by the time of the first date, while it is "complete" by the last date.

For the older sourcebooks, the dates are taken from the comments in the text; as later books have done away with the time/date stamps on these comments, the dates for them were taken mainly from Captain Chaos' introductions to the books' chapters, which do tend to feature the date at which the chapter was posted on Shadowland.

Should two dates appear, one in parentheses and the other not, then the first date is the earliest in the book, but the second is a better indication of the starting date; examples are Awakenings, where one date on page 18 is from 2056 while the rest are all from 2057, and The Neo-Anarchists' Guide To Real Life, where many articles are "reprints" from 2051 or 2052, but nearly all the comments are dated 2053.

Perhaps it's unnecessary, but I'll mention for Americans and others using funny date notations that the dates in this file are in a day-month-year format.

Thanks go to ArcLight, D.Ghost, Eclipse, and Martin Steffens for supplying the dates for the sourcebooks missing from my collection at the time I first compiled this list.

The dates for the adventures are in a separate file. The names of the books are linked to short reviews; to read the review, click on the name of the book.

Gurth <gurth@xs4all.nl>

FASA Sourcebook Dates

Earliest Date Last Date Book FASA no.
30-09-2049 29-03-2051 Seattle Sourcebook 7201
10-07-2050* 04-06-2051 Paranormal Animals Of North America 7105
07-10-2050 19-01-2051 Street Samurai Catalog 7104
??-01-2051
(07-01-2053*)
04-01-2054* The Neo-Anarchists' Guide To Real Life 7208
02-03-2051 29-08-2052 Rigger Black Book 7108
03-08-2051 30-12-2052 Native American Nations: Volume One 7202
03-08-2051 31-12-2052 Native American Nations: Volume Two 7207
12-09-2051* ??-04-2052* The Neo-Anarchist's Guide To North America 7206
01-11-2051 07-08-2054 London Sourcebook 7203
30-11-2052 03-01-2053 Shadowtech 7110
07-03-20531 ??-09-20531 Shadowbeat 7109
11-03-2053 26-09-2053 Paranormal Animals Of Europe 7112
11-11-2053 21-11-2054 Tír na nÓg 7211
18-11-2053* 29-12-2054 Germany Sourcebook 7204
04-02-2054 01-06-2054 Tir Tairngire 7210
04-03-2054 27-05-2054 Corporate Shadowfiles 7113
10-08-2054 15-01-2055* Fields Of Fire 7114
01-09-2054 04-12-2054 Lone Star 7115
01-12-2054 19-12-2054 Paradise Lost (sourcebook section) 7317
15-05-2055* 05-07-2055 Denver: The City Of Shadows 7212
10-07-2055 24-12-2056* Virtual Realities 2.0 7904
22-08-2055 21-01-2056 Bug City 7117
06-09-2055 11-03-2056 Corporate Security Handbook 7118
24-03-2056 11-12-2056 Cybertechnology 7119
01-05-2056 01-06-2056 Aztlan 7213
01-08-2056
(05-01-2057)
19-02-2057 Awakenings: New Magic In 2057 7120
15-01-2057
13-05-2057
22-01-2057
22-05-2057
24-05-2057
15-01-2057
04-05-2057
05-06-2057
20-03-2057
12-05-2057
23-05-2057
20-05-2057
25-05-2057
01-06-2057
24-06-2057
26-06-2057
10-06-2057
23-01-2057
22-05-2057
04-06-2057
04-05-2057
05-05-2057
05-06-2057
22-04-2057
23-06-2057
15-06-2057
11-06-2057
21-06-2057
22-06-2057
26-06-2057
Threats2
Alamos 20,000
Afraid Of The Darke
Winternight
The Vampire Conspiracy
Halberstam's Babies
KSAF
The Atlantean Conspiracy
Here There Be Dragons
Bugs
Blood Mage Gestalt
The Black Lodge
The Human Nation
Tutor
Strain III
7121
05-01-2058 24-01-2058 Underworld Sourcebook 7123
01-02-2057* 14-03-2057 California Free State 7209
09-08-2057 12-10-2057 Portfolio Of A Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets 7122
18-09-2057 18-09-2057 Shadowrun Companion: Beyond The Shadows 7905
14-03-2058 05-04-2058 Target: UCAS 7214
12-01-2059 20-01-2059 Cyberpirates 7124
14-02-2059 02-07-2059 Target: Smuggler Havens 7215
08-08-2060 24-09-2060 New Seattle 7216

Notes

* There is an earlier (or later, as applicable) date in this book, but it appears to be a typo.
1 These dates are not from comments but from a TV guide (earliest date) and a magazine issue (last date) in the book.
2 Due to the way Threats is put together, I've decided to date each chapter separately.