Not all links are current. I'll get it updated asap.
Roleplay
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R.
Talsorian Games
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Creators of the Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0. RPG.
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Digital
@ccess
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Entertaining and informative. Night City news,
plus new tech, roles, more. Great site, updated
monthly.
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Spyder's
CP2020 PBEM
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Play by Email. See his page and then email
Spyder.
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Mockery's
Cyberpunk 2020
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Incredible comprehensive site. Weapons, Gear,
Ware, & much more.
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Angry's
CP2020 Weapons
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A great archive for arming your character.
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OWH's
Cyberpunk 2020
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Weapons, tips, gear, corps...just about all the
info you need! Now with a chat
room! A bit slower than IRC, but no client
needed.
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SuperDan's
CP2020
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Another complete resource page.
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CP2020
Character Generation
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Great tips and info for building a CP2020
character.
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The
Night City Sceamsheet
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The latest dish from Night City itself! Great
mood setter.
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The
Cyber Corporation
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Check out Madison, WI in 2020 and stop by the
Styles Bar & Grill.
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Mockery's
Links
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More links than you can kill with a MASER
cannon.
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The
Cyberpunk 2020 Domain
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View eMail roleplay. Links.
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Marc's
Cheats
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A must for those wanting to make sense out of
the huge universe of CP2020.
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The
Free Form Role Players Association
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Information on FFRP and other FFRP IRC
channels.
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Authors
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Peter
F. Hamilton
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One of my favorite authors, Hamilton writes
about post-global warming Great Britain. Along with
Net hackers and Corporate takeovers, Hamilton has
created the ultra cool Mindstar,
psi-enhanced soldiers, the greatest of course being
hero Greg Mandel. Books include Mindstar
Rising, A Nano Murder, The Nano Flower, The
Reality Dysfunction.
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William
Gibson
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The founding father of cyberpunk, Gibson paints
the ultimate picture of the Dark Future. Not to be
missed is his classic Neuromancer.
Other books include Count Zero, Mona Lisa
Overdrive, Virtual Light. Also wrote Johnny
Mnemonic.
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Bruce
Sterling
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Cyberpunk co-founder and default spokesman,
Sterling draws you into the technological overload
with Islands
in the Net. Other books include The Artificial
Kid and The
Hacker Crackdown (non-fiction). Co-wrote
The
Difference Engine with William Gibson. Edited
Mirrorshades:
the Cyberpunk Anthology. Check out the
Literary
Freeware Archive.
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John
Shirley
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One of the hottest cyberpunk authors to come
along since Gibson and Sterling. Catch a sample
with The
Exquisitely Bleeding Heads of Doktor Palmer
Vreedeez. Books include The Brigade, A Song
Called Youth series, Silicon Embrace. Co-wrote The
Crow.
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Neal
Stephenson
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Author of Snow Crash, Neal is a favorite (and
fairly accessible) among many roleplayers. Check
out this great sample of the Stephenson touch with
his short story "Spew".
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Phillip
K. Dick
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Dick's book "Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?" spun off into the great Blade
Runner.
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William
S Burroughs
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Most famous for Naked Lunch and The Soft
Machine, Burroughs is beyond esoteric at times
(I've yet to find a complete sentence from the man)
and makes for some wierd reading, but offers a
completely different look at the underculture of
the Dark Future. This is the man who inspired
William Gibson, as well as cyberpunk original
musician Gary
Numan.
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Cyberpunk
Fiction
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Short stories in the cyberpunk genre online!
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The
Book List
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A great cyberpunk reading list for those unsure
where to start.
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Marc's
CP Print Review
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Excellent reviews of Cyberpunk genre books.
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Buy most of these books online at Amazon
Books!
Movies
While not all of these movies are strictly cyberpunk,
they all capture the flavor of the Dark Future.
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Johnny
Mnemonic
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William Gibson's tale of the adventures of a
mneumonic courier, carrying vital information in
his head that will kill him if he doesn't get it
out...or he can just leave it to the Yakuza, who
would love to cut off his head to retrieve it.
Stars Keanu Reeves as "Johnny..just Johnny".
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Blade
Runner
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Based on Phillip K. Dick's "Do Andriods Dream of
Electric Sheep?" this cyberpunk classic stars
Harrison Ford as Deckard, a rogue replicant hunter
in dark future Los Angeles. Great performance by
Rutger Hauer. Also the source for alot of Gary
Numan sampling and the inspiration for his song
Time To Die.
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Tank
Girl
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Funny and in-your-face, Tank Girl stars Lori
Petty as the post-apocalyptic, post-feminist hero
of the comic
book by the same name. Be sure to check out the
Tank
Girl homepage! Blam!
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The
Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai and the Hong Kong
Cavaliers in the Eighth Dimension
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One of the longest film titles ever...and a
major cult classic. Peter Weller is Buckaroo
Bonzai, race car driver, rock star, nobel-laureate
physicist, and neurosurgeon, and the hero of his
own comic book to boot! Buckaroo accidentally frees
an exiled Red Plektroid madman who must be stopped
before the Black Plecktroids destroy the Earth.
Jeff Goldblum joins in one of his earliest roles as
Buckaroo's surgeon buddy New Jersey. Remember, no
matter where you go...there you are.
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Mad
Max, Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome
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The Australian post-apocalypse series stars Mel
Gibson as Mad Max, cop turned wandering hero as
gangs battle over scarce gasoline. Stealing the
spotlight from Gibson is the Interceptor, the last
of the v8's. Check out the Mad
Max Chronology and the hilarious Dan
Man vs Mad Max.
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Escape
From New York, Escape from Los Angeles
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Kurt Russell is Snake, fighting to survive and
accomplish impossible missions in the Dark Future's
two largest maximum security prisons. Also see the
Unofficial
Snake Enthusiasts Homepage.
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Robocop
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Peter Weller is a Detroit cop turned cyborg.
Stay out of trouble!
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The
Fifth Element
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Okay, so it's set a few hundred years too far in
the future to qualify as pure cyberpunk, but this
movie conveys the cyberpunk lifestyle to a tee!
Bruce Willis is NYC cab driver Korben Dallas, who
also just happens to be an ex-army special forces
officer and the only person who can save the Earth
from evil invaders.
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The
Crow
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Co-written by John Shirley, The Crow shows the
mood of cyberpunk even if it doesn't qualify as
strictly part of the genre. Brandon Lee's final
movie has him portraying murder victim Eric Draven,
who is brought back by a crow for his revenge.
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Alien,
Aliens, Alien III
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Sigourney Weaver battles space bitch aliens.
Gives a very good idea of Dark Future space travel
and alien encounter.
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Cyberpunk
Films
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For those who just can't get enough celluloid
cyberpunk, enough movies to keep you happy until
2020. Also check out Recommended
Viewing.
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Marc's
CP Movie Review
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Marc Bernowitz lays it all out. Find out which
CyberPunk movies are worth renting. Also check out
Marc's
TV, Anime, and Non-Fiction Video Review.
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Check out more listings and vote for your favorite
CyberPunk film at The
Internet Movie Database under Genre: CyberPunk!
Music
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Gary
Numan
(also see My
Shadow In Vain)
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He may not be well known, but Gary Numan was one
of the original cyberpunk artists, even if he
doesn't know what cyberpunk is (I'm working on
it...he'll get it eventually). The real life
inspiration for The
Numan, Gary wrote funky cyberpunk-themed songs
in the early 80's, taking his inspiration from
William S. Burroughs and Phillip K. Dick. Albums
Replicas and Telekon are his purest cyberpunk
works, with sci-fi musings about the merging of man
and machine. Gary himself served as inspiration for
the current generation of cyberpunk artists,
including Gravity Kills, Pop Will Eat Itself, and
Nine Inch Nails.
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Numan's UBL Card
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Gravity
Kills
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Amazing guitars and awesome vocals make this
band a must have in your cd collection.
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GKills' UBL Card
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Pop
Will Eat Itself
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With a name like that, you know they aren't
boring. Rude, loud, original, never the same thing
twice.
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PWEI's UBL Card
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Nine Inch
Nails
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They don't know slow, and they don't know
soft...what they know is great Industrial! (Guess
what...Trent Reznor is gonna be doing a remix of
Numan's latest album Exile...I can't wait!)
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NIN's UBL Card
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Sisters
of Mercy
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Gothic cyberpunk from the band who gave us
Temple of Love and Something Fast.
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SoM's UBL Card
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Econoline
Crush
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Bren's pick for most awesome band of all time,
both cyberpunk and otherwise.
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EC's UBL Card
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Sister Machine
Gun
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Cory's hot pick for Metal/Industrial. New album
(and webpage) due out July 15...Metropolis!
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SMG's UBL Card
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The Prodigy
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Also see The
Prodigy, The Master of Techno
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Prodigy's UBL Card
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Underworld
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Yet more awesome Techno CyberPunk.
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UW's UBL Card
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 Search
The Ultimate Band List
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