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Dead Monky

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« Reply #15 on: <01-18-11/1424:33> »
Don't forget how much they have to cut and/or compress to keep the thing from being six hours long.

zhivik

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« Reply #16 on: <01-20-11/0603:01> »
I would add a couple of more titles:

Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age - This can be actually considered as based in the same setting as Snow Crash (though no explicit reference is given). Anyways, it provides a lot of inspiration on corporate-controlled society, nanotechnology, AIs, lack of privacy, etc.

Stanislaw Lem, Cyberiad - It has a lot of ideas on AI, though mostly in the concept of robots. Still, an interesting take compared to the typical presentation of AIs in cyberpunk.

Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon - Actually, the entire Takeshi Kovacs series may qualify, but this is the best of the series, in my view.

Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars series - This has indeed a more sci-fi oriented theme, but as far as society goes, it is completely applicable to Shadowrun, in my opinion. You can actually take it as a source of ideas for space colonisation :)