> cat reading_list.txt
Further reading
Games that share the table with Kill Sample Process, and the books that built the genre. Read them for the setting, steal from them for your scenarios.
> RELATED GAMES
CY_BORG
Stockholm Kartell · Free League
The rules-light cyberpunk RPG built on the MÖRK BORG engine. Kill Sample Process is CY_BORG compatible, so the city of Cy is waiting when your crew wants more than a skirmish.
CY_BORG →Forbidden Psalm
WIRD Designs
The dark fantasy skirmish game Kill Sample Process comes from. Same author, same warband-and-campaign heart, swords and plague in place of chrome.
Forbidden Psalm →
> CYBERPUNK CLASSICS
1968 · NOVEL
WIKIPEDIA →Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires rogue androids in a dying San Francisco. The book behind Blade Runner.
1982 · MANGA
WIKIPEDIA →Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo
Biker gangs, secret psychic experiments and a military coup in the ruins of Neo-Tokyo.
1984 · NOVEL
WIKIPEDIA →Neuromancer
William Gibson
A washed-up console cowboy gets one last job, a razor girl watches his back, and an AI wants out of its cage.
1986 · STORIES
WIKIPEDIA →Burning Chrome
William Gibson
Gibson's early short stories, including Johnny Mnemonic and the title heist on a crime boss's bank.
1986 · ANTHOLOGY
WIKIPEDIA →Mirrorshades
Bruce Sterling (editor)
The anthology that gave the movement its manifesto, with stories by Gibson, Sterling, Cadigan, Shiner and Rucker.
1986 · NOVEL
WIKIPEDIA →Hardwired
Walter Jon Williams
Panzer smugglers and a cyborg killer for hire in a balkanised America ruled from orbit. Later a Cyberpunk RPG sourcebook.
1989 · MANGA
WIKIPEDIA →The Ghost in the Shell
Masamune Shirow
Major Motoko Kusanagi's full-cyborg unit hunts hackers who can rewrite a human mind.
1991 · NOVEL
WIKIPEDIA →Synners
Pat Cadigan
Video synthesists, brain sockets and a corporate merger that turns a direct line to the net into a killer.
1992 · NOVEL
WIKIPEDIA →Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Hacker and pizza courier Hiro Protagonist chases a drug that crashes computers and minds alike, through a franchised, privatised America.
2002 · NOVEL
WIKIPEDIA →Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan
Minds live in cortical stacks and bodies are rented sleeves. An ex-envoy is resleeved to solve a rich man's murder.