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Johnny Mnemonic is the best SR movie ever made

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PiXeL01:
Strange Days is a great movie too and often mentioned as inspiration worthy.

Beerhamut:
Read the William Gibson Sprawl series. I swear Shadowrun is the nerd-baby of that, Lord of the Rings, and Walter John Williams "Hardwired".
Sprawl=Cities, street samurai, and matrix.
Rings=Dragons, magic, metaraces.
Hardwired=Riggers, and street samurai.

Johnny Mnemonic is actually from William Gibsons' Sprawl stuff so there ya go.

Beta:

--- Quote from: Beerhamut on ---Read the William Gibson Sprawl series. I swear Shadowrun is the nerd-baby of that, Lord of the Rings, and Walter John Williams "Hardwired".
Sprawl=Cities, street samurai, and matrix.
Rings=Dragons, magic, metaraces.
Hardwired=Riggers, and street samurai.

Johnny Mnemonic is actually from William Gibsons' Sprawl stuff so there ya go.

--- End quote ---
I'd add:
- George Alec Effinger's When Gravity Fails (and sequels) for the drugs, btl, and personality modification chips.
- less in SR than in the Cyberpunk RPG, Norman Spinrad's Little Heroes for Rockers

Beerhamut:
I'll read those after I finish Snow Crash.

JudgeMonroe:
It's kind of endearing that the Johnny Mnemonic "data courier" archetype persists into the 5th Edition (specifically via the Iconic character Gentry and generally through the availability of the Data Lock augmentation) even though the rest of the evolved setting ought to make the concept entirely moot.

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