(Research for Continuity.)

Books

  • Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
  • Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
  • Accelerando by Charles Stross
  • Glasshouse by Charles Stross
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson
  • Count Zero by William Gibson
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
  • V. by Thomas Pynchon
  • A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
  • Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
  • Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
  • Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
  • The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
  • Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
  • Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You & Your World by Robert Anton Wilson
  • Islands in the Net by Bruce Sterling
  • The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
  • Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Dragon Man: A Novel of the Future by Brian Stableford
  • When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
  • The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick
  • Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
  • Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling
  • Software by Rudy Rucker
  • Wetware by Rudy Rucker
  • Freeware by Rudy Rucker
  • Realware by Rudy Rucker
  • WWW: Wake by Robert J. Sawyer
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
  • The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders
  • Technologized Desire: Selfhood and the Body in Postcapitalist Science Fiction by D. Harlan Wilson
  • The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree, Jr.
  • The Mind of a Mnemonist by A. R. Luria
  • Doom Patrols by Steven Shaviro
  • Destination: Void by Frank Herbert
  • Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
  • The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel Wegner
  • Semiotext[e] edited by Rudy Rucker, Robert Anton Wilson, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Bart Plantenga

Manga:

  • Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei
  • Biomega by Tsutomu Nihei
  • NOiSE by Tsutomu Nihei
  • Abara by Tsutomu Nihei
  • Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
  • Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow

Films/Television:

  • Blade Runner
  • Akira
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
  • Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society
  • RoboCop
  • The Matrix Trilogy
  • Dark City
  • Johnny Mnemonic
  • The Fifth Element
  • Avalon
  • Tron
  • Babylon A.D.
  • No Maps for These Territories (documentary)
  • Parasite Dolls
  • Renaissance
  • Cowboy Bebop (movie)
  • Cowboy Bebop (show)
  • Paranoia Agent
  • Paprika
  • Fragile Machine
  • Cyberpunk Educator (documentary)
  • Ergo Proxy
  • Texhnolyze
  • A Scanner Darkly
  • Serial Experiments Lain

Radio/Podcasts:

Limits: Limits of the Mind

Internet Articles:

“Intelligent and Sentient Beings”

“Synthetic Life”

“Synthetic Biology”

“Cultured Neural Networks”

“Jean Baudrillard – Two Essays”

“Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex”

“Second-order Simulacra”

“So Can You Make Me A Cyborg”

“Removing Memory Scars”

“IBM Uses DNA to Make Next Gen Microchips”

“Optogenetic Induction of Memory Recall”

“The Big Book of Drugs for Cyberpunk 2020

“Cyberpunk Documentary from 1993”

“Reproducibility Distinguishes Conscious From Nonconscious Neural Representations”

“Blanks for the Memories”

“Ghost in the Shell: Why Our Brains Will Never Live in the Matrix”

“By Thought Alone: Mind Over Keyboard”

http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_1.html

“Satoshi Kon Explores the Insanity of Japan” by Michael Andre-Driussi @ IRoSF.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exceptional_memory