References

Eclipse Phase took inspiration from many sources that deserve recognition and credit. Some of the creators, however, have politics and ideological stances that do not align with ours. We include them because gamemasters may still find them useful for ideas for adventures and campaigns.

Fiction

K. C. Alexander
- Necrotech
Neal Asher
- Gridlinked
- Skinner
Iain Banks
- Consider Phlebas
- Excession
- The Hydrogen Sonata
- Inversions
- Look to Windward
- Matter
- The Player of Games
- The State of the Art
- Surface Detail
- Use of Weapons
Greg Bear
- Moving Mars
- Queen of Angels
- Slant
David Brin
- Earth
- Kiln People
- Startide Rising
- Sundiver
- The Uplift War
James S. A. Corey
- Abaddon’s Gate
- Caliban’s War
- Leviathan Wakes
Paul Di Filippo
- Ribofunk
Cory Doctorow
- Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- Eastern Standard Tribe
- Walkaway
Greg Egan
- Axiomatic
- Diaspora
- Distress
- Permutation City
- Quarantine
Warren Ellis
- Crooked Little Vein
Kathleen Ann Goonan
- Crescent City Rhapsody
- Light Music
- Mississippi Blues
- Queen City Jazz
Peter Hamilton
- The “Commonwealth Saga”
  - Pandora’s Star
  - Judas Unleashed
- The “Greg Mandel Trilogy”
  - Mindstar Rising
  - A Quantum Murder
  - The Nano Flower
James Hogan
- Voyage from Yesteryear
Nancy Kress
- Beggars in Spain
Ursula LeGuin
- The Dispossessed
- The Left Hand of Darkness
Ken MacLeod
- The “Fall Revolution” series
  - The Star Fraction
  - The Stone Canal
  - The Cassini Division
  - The Sky Road
- Newton’s Wake
Richard Morgan
- The “Takeshi Kovacs” series
  - Altered Carbon
  - Broken Angels
  - Woken Furies
- Thirteen
Linda Nagata
- The Bohr Maker
- Deception Well
- Limit of Vision
- Tech Heaven
- Vast
Ramez Naam
- Apex
- Crux
- Nexus
Annalee Newitz
- Autonomous
Ada Palmer
- Seven Surrenders
- The Will to Battle
- Too Like the Lightning
Frederick Pohl
- Gateway
Alastair Reynolds
- Absolution Gap
- Chasm City
- Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
- Elysium Fire
- Galactic North
- The Prefect
- Pushing Ice
- Redemption Ark
- Revelation Space
Douglas Richards
- Infinity Born
Kim Stanley Robinson
- 2312
- The “Mars Trilogy”
  - Red Mars
  - Blue Mars
  - Green Mars
- The Martians
- Red Moon
Karl Schroeder
- Ventus
Dan Simmons
- Endymion
- Fall of Endymion
- Fall of Hyperion
- Hyperion
- Llium
- Olympos
Neal Stephenson
- Diamond Age
- Seveneves
Bruce Sterling
- Caryatids
- Crystal Express
- Holy Fire
- Schismatrix Plus
Charles Stross
- Accelerando
- Glasshouse
- Halting State
- Iron Sunrise
- Neptune’s Brood
- Rule 34
- Saturn’s Children
- Singularity Sky
- Toast
Daniel Suarez
- Daemon
- Freedom
- Influx
Karen Traviss
- City of Pearl
Vernor Vinge
- Across Realtime
- The Children of the Sky
- A Deepness in the Sky
- A Fire Upon The Deep
- Rainbow’s End
- True Names and Other Dangers
Elisabeth Vonarburg
- Slow Engines of Time
Peter Watts
- Blindsight
- Echopraxia
- “Rifters’ Trilogy”
  - Starfish
  - Maelstrom
  - Behemoth (ß-Max + Seppuku)
Scott Westerfeld
- The Risen Empire
- The Killing of Worlds
Walter Jon Williams
- Aristoi
- Angel Station
- Implied Spaces
- Voice of the Whirlwind
David Zindell
- The Broken God
- Neverness
- War in Heaven
- The Wild

Comics and Graphic Novels

Jamie Delano
- Narcopolis
Warren Ellis
- Doktor Sleepless
- Doom 2099
- Global Frequency
- Ministry of Space
- Ocean
- Transmetropolitan
Jonathan Hickman
- Transhuman
Grant Morrison
- The Filth
- The Invisibles
Masamune Shirow
- Ghost in the Shell
- Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error
Processor
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface
Adam Warren
- Iron Man: Hypervelocity
Makoto Yukimura
- Planetes

Non-Fiction

Ronald Bailey
- Liberation Biology
Susan Blackmore
- The Meme Machine
Murray Bookchin
- Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Cynthia Brezeal
- Designing Sociable Robots
Nick Bostrom
- Superintelligence
David Brin
- The Transparent Society
Richard Brodie
- Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
James Brook and Ian Boal (eds)
- Resisting the Virtual Life
Rodney Brooks
- Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
- Cambrian Intelligence: The Early History of the New AI
Critical Art Ensemble
- Digital Resistance
- Electronic Civil Disobedience
- The Electronic Disturbance
- Flesh Machine
- The Molecular Invasion
- The Marching Plague
Richard Dawkins
- The Selfish Gene
K. Eric Drexler
- Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
Freeman Dyson
- Disturbing the Universe
- Imagined Worlds
Ann Finkbeiner
- The Jasons
- Imaginary Weapons
Joel Garreau
- Radical Evolution
Peter Gelderloos
- Anarchy Works
Adam Greenfield
- Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Robin Hanson
- The Age of Em
James Hughes
- Citizen Cyborg
Peter Kropotkin
- The Conquest of Bread
- Mutual Aid
- Science and Anarchism
Ray Kurzweil
- The Singularity is Near
Howard Rheingold
- Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
John Robb
- Brave New War
Clay Shirky
- Here Comes Everybody
Bruce Sterling
- Shaping Things
- Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
Gregory Stock
- Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
- Soonish
Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R. Hendrix
- Beyond Earth
Simon Young
- Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

Roleplaying Games

Blue Planet
Burning Empires
Call of Cthulhu
Cybergeneration
Dawning Star
Delta Green
Fate
FreeMarket
Gamma World
GURPS: Transhuman Space
Morrow Project
Numenera
Paranoia
Shadowrun
Shock: Social Science Fiction
Traveller

Movies & Television

AI
Alien series
Altered Carbon
Alita: Battle Angel
Andromeda
Babylon 5 and Crusade
Big O
Black Mirror
Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
Chappie
Cowboy Bebop
District 9
Dollhouse
Dreamcatcher
Elysium
Ergo Proxy
Ex Machina
The Expanse
Firefly and Serenity
Gattaca
Ghost in the Shell (everything)
Gravity
Hardcore Henry
The Island
Jekyll
Limitless
Love, Death, and Robots
The Martian
Moon
Pandorum
Planetes
Sleep Dealer
Solaris
Stargate and Stargate: Atlantis
Sunshine
Upgrade
Uzumaki