Hello,
Have been picking up the SR novels whenever I stumble across them in second-hand bookstores and mostly enjoying them. I recently read Black Madonna however and I'm assuming it's not exactly considered a classic of the series. Might just be me, but I found it pretty hard going and, in honesty, I barely understood the ending. As far as I could work out, Leonardo DaVinci was an immortal elf who worshipped Mary Magdalene, who was sort of an old Egyptian goddess and John the Baptist was more important than Jesus. Also, Leonardo had a magic cyberdeck that could piddle all over corp systems and he sold the tech to Renraku in return for them letting him do research into something mysterious. Just writing that down makes me think I might have been taking something hallucenogenic whilst reading. Can anyone clarify what the ending was all about, so I feel a bit less like an idiot?