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Inspirational Materials

There are many ways to run in the Shadows. Others have tried before, or tried to approximate the experience. Here is a partial and often-updated listing of those resources for the Runner looking to get in the right headspace.

(Note: Categories are generally Western. Listings in Italic are anime, manga, or similarly-influenced works.)

Films

Movies

• Akira (1988)
• Æon Flux (2005)
• The Bank Job (2008)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• Chappie (2015)
• Children of Men (2009)
• District 9 (2009)
• Dredd (2012)
• Elysium (2013)
• Ex Machina (2015)
• Ghost in the Shell (1995) [note: this became a franchise in many forms, see the Wikipedia page for more]
• Heat (1995)
• The Italian Job (2003)
• The Jackal (1997)
• John Wick (2014)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Kingsman, The Secret Service (2014)
• The Losers (2010)
• Ocean's Eleven (2001)
• Reign of Fire (2002)
• RoboCop (1987)
• Ronin (1998)
• The Running Man (1987)
• The Usual Suspects (1995)
• The Warriors (1979)

Shorts

• PostHuman

Television

• Æon Flux
• Almost Human
• Alphas
• The Bionic Woman
• Cowboy Beebop
• Dollhouse
• Max Headroom
• Person of Interest
• Psycho-Pass
• Quantum Leap
• The Six Million Dollar Man

Music

• Dance With the Dead
• David Hasselhoff - True Survivor (video)
• New Retro Wave
• Daft Punk
• Dynatron
• F*ck Buttons
• The Glitch Mob
• Kavinsky
• Lazerhawk
• Mega Drive
• Perturbator
• Power Glove
• Scattle
• Streetlight Manifesto
• Younger Brother

Books

Non-Fiction

• eaarth, Bill McKibben
• More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement, Ramez Naam
• The World Without Us, Alan Weisman

Fiction

• A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
• Brave New World, Aldus Huxley
• The Children of Men, P.D. James
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Nexus Arc (series), Ramez Naam
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
• Odds Against Tomorrow, Nathaniel Rich
• The Oyrx and Crake Trilogy, Margaret Atwood
• Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
• The Road, Cormac McCarthy
• Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson
• The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi

Comic Books and Graphic Novels

• 1,000 AD
• The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller & Lynn Varley
• The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Frank Miller & Lynn Varley

Games

• Andriod Netrunner *Board game
• Android *Board game
• BioShock series
• Deus Ex series
• Fallout series
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
• Shin Megami Tensei series
• Syndicate
• System Shock
• Tom Clancy's The Division

(Many thanks to 4Chan, YouTube, Reddit, and many individuals and groups who helped compile this list and keep it up to date!)