References
Eclipse Phase took inspiration from many sources that deserve recognition and credit. Gamemasters may find these useful for ideas for adventures and campaigns.
Fiction
- K. C. Alexander
- Necrotech
- Neal Asher
- Gridlinked
- Skinner
- Ian Banks
- Consider Phlebas
- Excession
- The Hydrogen Sonata
- Inversions
- Look to Windward
- Matter
- The Player of Games
- The State of the Art
- Surface Detail
- The 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
- The “Commonwealth Saga”
- 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
- The “Fall Revolution” series
- Richard Morgan
- The “Takeshi Kovacs” series
- Altered Carbon
- Broken Angels
- Woken Furies
- Thirteen
- The “Takeshi Kovacs” series
- 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