Alison Plays' o o o Ŀ o Ŀ Ŀ o o Ŀ o o  o  o o o o o o o o o o Resource List I've been collecting this information since summer. Not all of this stuff I've called, read, written or seen myself. So, don't assume all addresses are valid. You'll find that Zines and stuff come and go quickly. The Alison Plays K Seal of Approval This symbol () means I've seen this, subscribe to it and like it! -------------------- "CYBERPUNK: The Rebel Yell of Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll with Computers." FAD #26 JUST WHAT *IS* CYBERPUNK, ANYWAY?? Well, its a "cultural trend that has different streams.*" It began as Science Fiction - "Cyberpunk fiction takes place 30 seconds into the future. It measures the effect of technologies that are actually happening in the present." The future is upon us, its made of "bio chips, things that go under the skin, tiny computers, information that's attached to human beings, designer drugs, massive differences in economic classes, lots of countercultures that use computers and high technology to express themselves, lots of outlawry, a world that is dominated not by governments and nations, but by multi-national corporations." Cyberpunk broke out of science fiction and became a subculture. Computer hackers, outlaw hackers (crackers) and kids enthusiastic about technology adopted the label. It stuck after the New York Times called kids breaking into a government computer cyberpunks. Then somehow, people in the avant garde, industrial music and performance art world were labeled as cyberpunks. An article in an electronic music magazine saw the view of cyberpunk science fiction similar to the world view present in the digitally created music of these artists. It was also revealed that these muscians were fans of cyberpunk fiction. Mondo 2000 helped popularize cyberpunk, bringing it into the view of a larger group of people who related to this subculture. "A cyberpunk can now be just about anybody who relates to this world view and just wants to go out and be a part of a scene that includes all-night acid-house rave parties, smart drugs, interpersonal technological displays, virtual reality equipment, and night clubs. It's become almost a fashion movement." How can you tell a cyberpunk? Well, Mondoids - hardcore Mondo 2000 freaks tend to be "completely irreverent, have a fairly ridiculous sense of humor, and are computer-sophisticated. Their taste in music and art leans toward various subgenres. They're probably sexually liberated, adventuresome, post-correct and post-feminist, not pushed around in terms of whether they're male or female, or in terms of their freedom to pursue their own individual identity and their own passions and desires." Cyberpunks aren't kids anymore. YES, YOU TOO CAN BE A CYBERPUNK. The information that follows is a list of various genres that *I* feel fall under cyberpunk or that I've picked up from various cyberpunk magzines, etc. Most of these are the same books, movies, videos, and zines you will hear mentioned when someone describes or defines cyberpunk. Some are related books, catalogs, etc. Many of the books and movies listed are not necessarily cyberpunk but contain significant cyberpunk elements. I'll try to point out the main cyberpunk information. Hope you find this informative and fun! * Quotes from Is This Man Serious? Waldenbooks' Computer Newslink newsletter. ------------------- | |  "Sex is a Virus that infects | | ZINES | | new technology First."  | | ------------------- INTERTEK: The Cyberpunk Journal #1 BOING-BOING $4 () got it at Borders Steve Steinberg $3.95 current issue on stands #10 325 Ellwood Beach #3 8, 9 and 10 are all interesting Goleta CA 93117 $14 4 issue subs (might have gone up) (805) 685-6557 11288 Ventura Blvd. #818 Issue 3.3 Studio City, CA 91604 steve@cs.ucsb.edu (818) 980-2009 CYBERTEK STRANGE DAYS $10/yr $5.95 OCL/Magnitude 1 yr sub (4 issues) $16.95 PO Box 64 Broken Arrow Publishing Brewster, NY 10509 PO Box 564 Worcester, WA 01613 SCIENCE FICTION EYE $10/3 issues CYBER RAG PO Box 18539 ELECTRONIC HOLLYWOOD Asheville, NC 28814 Mac 'lectronic Zines Covering all sorts of things STATES(S) OF THE ART Need at least 3Mb Ram $2.50 Jaime Levy Marshall Communications PO Box 2966 100 Manhattan Ave Hollywood, CA 90078 Suite 1210 Union City, NJ 07087 TALKING RAVEN Critical Catalog of Vol II #1 $2 American New Fiction PO Box 45758 Seattle, WA 98145 WIRED Cyberpunk Satire Issue $4.95 () New Mag for the cyber 2600 - The Hacker Quarterly tech head, tech and PO Box 752 social issues. On Middle Island, NY 11953 local newstands. Controversial little zine mostly about phone phreaking. MONDO 2000 This guy's had lots of trouble $5.95 () and you have to admire him for The New Cyberculture Guide keeping at it. PO Box 10171 Available at Tower Records - DC Berkeley, CA 94709 On local Newstands ----------====================---------- One of the BEST Zine Resources is available again, after a brief hiatus. FACTSHEET 5 - it covers all types of zines including cyberpunk and "Queer" - Lesbian, Gay and Bi zines. Current Issue on Stands #46 $3.95 (got mine at Border's) Seth Friedman PO Box 170099 San Francisco, CA 94117 $4 sample $20 6 issue sub >>>>>> Fast Track to Cyberpunk: Mondo 2000, Boing-Boing, Wired "SMART DRUGS: Drugs that are a result of 'smart' | | technology: computer-based, computer-controlled | | or computer-designed. A by-product of a | ------------------- | 'smarter' (?) generation that is Medical 3D | | | | Simulation/Imaging technology enlightened, and | | COMICS | | prefers to use vitamin/amino acid combos in | | | | order to get there. Better known as fun with | ------------------- | peptides." FAD #26  THE LAND OF WOZ CYBERANTICS distrubuted by Mayakovsky & Geary Last Gasp Dark Horse Comics 2180 Bryant St. 1992 San Fran, CA 94110 ISBN 1-878574-29-9 415-824-6636 $14.96 ------------------- "The cricket's gone, we only hear machines; | | | | In erg and atom they exact their pay | | CATALOGS | | And life is largely lived on silver screens."| | | | David McCord, "Ballade of Time and Space"  ------------------- THE WHOLE TOON CATALOG #8 LOOMPANICS UNLIMITED Free (100 pgs) PO Box 1197 1450 19th Ave NW Port Townsend, WA 98368 Issaquah, WA 98027 Alternative/Controversial Books (206) 391-8747 $5 280 pgs Books, mags, laserdisks Video - Claymation, Japanimation Cyberpunk Novels Sase BOOKS BY PHONE () JAA Press FREE 16pg Prince St. Sta. Box 522 PO Box 96 Berkeley, CA 94701 NY NY 10012 800 858-2665 (510) 548-2124 has some titles not listed here GET THIS CATALOG! MARK V ZIESING BOOKS 42 pg PO Box 76 Shingletown, CA 96088 Rare SF, Comix, Zines >>>>>>> Fast Track to Cyberpunk: Books by Phone, Mark V Ziesing, JAA Press ___________________________________________________ -------------------  HARDWARE SOFTWARE WETWARE  | |  Equipment/Gear Programs/Apps Biologicals/Flesh  | SOFTWARE |  Body Mind Spirit  | |  Control Command Communication  ------------------- --------------------------------------------------- BEYOND CYBERPUNK (HyperCard Stack) CIRCUIT'S EDGE ( - I've ordered, should be good) Infocom 1990 $29.95 (might be more) IBM Adventure Game The Computer Lab Based on George Alec Effinger's Rt. 4 Box 54C *When Gravity Fails* & Louisa, VA 23093 *A Fire In The Sun* $1 for Comic Book (703) 532-1785 Multimedia Database of Cyberpunk NEUROMANCER Req Mac, 1.5Mb RAM Interplay 1988 5.5MB Hard Disk Space IBM Adventure Game HyperCard 2.x Based on book by William Gibson CYBERRACE CYBERSPACE Cyberdreams - Aval. soon Empire Strategy - Aval. soon Mix of Sci-Fi Role Play/Racing Based on Iron Crown Enterprises Mad Max flavor people & paper role playing system Art work by Syd Mead who did set design for BLADERUNNER >>>> Fast Track to Cyberpunk: Beyond Cyberpunk "TECHNO LUST: A form of addiction to technology,| ------------------- | equipment and gadgets based on the Pyramid of | | | | Need model. The more powerful, faster and | | GAMES | | better equipment you get the more you need | | | | more powerful, faster and better equipment." | ------------------- | FAD #26  GURPS Cyberpunk Sourcebook for GURPS (Generic Universal Role Playing System) - a set of Roleplaying Rules designed by Steve Jackson Games. Available at Book Stores in Roleplaying section (Waldenbooks, B. Dalton) or from SJ Games PO Box 18957 Austin, TX 78760 HACKER Steve Jackson Games $19.95 Computer Crime Card Game FASA's SHADOWRUN Game System  This is a Role Playing Game system, 1100 W. Cermak  ie Dungeon & Dragons, Tunnels & B305  Trolls, etc. I've never played Chicago, IL 60608  these type of games but they cover  tech more in depth than novels Shadowrun, 2nd Edition  since the idea is you become a  part of this world. Sourcebooks  These are great books to Neo-Anarchist's Guide to Real Life  read to learn more about Street Samurai Catalog  the cyberpunk world. You Rigger Black Book  will find some Trolls, ShadowBeat  Orcs and medevial magic Shadowtech  thrown in this series. Virtual Realities  This is not common in London Sourcebook  Cyberpunk. The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America  Shadowrun book contains Sprawl  the rules for the game.  Sourcebooks have info These books should be available at  on specific places or chain bookstores - Daltons, Waldenbooks  equipment types. and comic book stores. >>>>>>> Fast Track to Cyberpunk: GUPRS Cyberpunk --------------- "Beneath the glass-eyed towers and a gaping sun,| | | | a million ideas lay shattered into fragments, | | MOVIES | | crushed against the microchips of civilization,| | | | a civilization gone past, never to return...if | --------------- | it will return, ask no more, Ascii no more... | | below the gloomy nest of skyscrapers, an | Cyberpunk | individual may pick up fragments and be given | Bladerunner | pause to dream...of a new civilization, thus | Akira | in the meantime co-extant to the prosperity of | Max Headroom | cyber-haves, their bodies shielded against | A Clockwork Orange | every extremity, flourish the cybernauts, they | Terminator 1 & 2 | learned long ago how to survive, and live in | | the lurid glare of neon using the implements | Related | at hand to avoid disaster..." FAD #26  Lawnmower Man Alien/Aliens & 3 Liquid Sky Runaway Android Logan's Run Saturn 3 Brainstorm Looker Scanners Brazil Metropolis 2001 Cafe Flesh 1984 The Terminal Man Cherry 2000 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank THX 1138 Deathwatch Parts: The Clonus Horror Trancers Eliminators The Questor Tapes Tron Escape from New York Radioactive Dreams Videodrome Futureworld Robocop Wired to Kill Hands of Steel Rollerball Westworld Forth Comming Movies Lawnmower Man 2 The Immortals (based on Rudy Rucker's *Software*) >>>>>>> Fast Track to Cyberpunk: Bladerunner, Max Headroom, Akira "CYBERSPACE: 'Mankind's greatest consensual | | hallucination' - William Gibson's NEUROMANCER. | ------------------- | 'Where you go when you talk on the telephone' | | | | Steve Barlow. A futuristic form of Cyber astral| | VIDEOS | | projection into a computer generated virtual | | | | world. The transportation of consciousness into| ------------------- | a global network. Existing computer networks | | are arguably a primative model of cyberspace | Virtual reality conf. | that require externalized I/O sensory interface| Anaheim convention center | and rely exclusively on text for | March 22, 1990 | communication." FAD #26  39.95 3 hours Cutting Edge Video 2A Red Plum Circle Mystic Fire Video Montery Park, CA 91754 Free Catalog (213) 726-3177 1-800-292-9001 Dept. BOI Videos PO Box 9323 Atavistic Video S. Burlington, VT 05407 PO Box 578266 Chicago, ILL 60657-8266 () Cyberpunk Free Catalog by Marianne Trench 60min Mystic Fire Video ------------------- | | | BOOKS | | | ------------------- NON-FICTION *Cyberpunk, Hackers, Etc.* Cyberpunk Outlaws & Hackers on the Computer Frontier - Hafner/Markoff Hackers - Steven Levy Hackers, Crackers, Tweekers, Phreakers - Morgan Russell The Hacker Crackdown - Bruce Sterling Cyberpunk: High Tech Lowlife - Michael Synergy Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge - RU Sirius, Ed. CyberArts: Exploring Art & Technology - Linda Jacobson, Miller Freeman The Cybernauts: From Modern Alchemy to the New Renaissance - Timothy Leary & Eric Gullichsen The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll *Literary Criticism* Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction - Larry McCaffery, Ed Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk & The Future of Narrative - Slusser/Shippey Ed. *Virtual Reality* The Art and Science of Virtual Reality: Silicon Mirage - Aukstakalnis/Blatner Virtual Reality: Through the New Looking Glass - Pimentel/Teixelra Virtual Reality - Howard Rheingold *Related Books* Computer Lib/Dream Machines - Ted Nelson The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech - Avita Ronell Syslaw 2nd ed - Lance Rose, Jonathan Wallace - book about laws pertaining to BBS, the nets, intellectual property, civil liberties, etc. Must for Sysops, good for the cyberspace cowboy. *Books to Be Released * Cyberculture: Road Warriors, Console Cowboys and the Silicon Underground - Mark Dery Study of Gibson & Cyberpunk (title ?) - Lance Olsen >>>>>>> Fast Track to Cyberpunk: Fiction 2000, Storming the Reality Studio, The Hacker Crackdown, Mondo 2000 User's Guide FICTON *Cyberpunk* Neuromancer - Wm. Gibson (Seminal Work of Cyberpunk - started it all) Burning Chrome - Wm. Gibson Count Zero - Wm. Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive - Wm. Gibson Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) - Philip K. Dick A Fire in the Sun - George Alec Effinger () When Gravity Fails - George Alec Effinger () The Exile Kiss - George Alec Effinger () Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams Islands in the Net - Bruce Sterling Mirrorshades - Bruce Sterling, Ed. Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling Globalhead - Bruce Sterling Shockwave Rider - John Brunner Stand on Zanzibar - John Brunner True Names - Vernor Vinge Software - Rudy Rucker Wetware - Rudy Rucker Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson >>>>>>>>> Fast Track to Cyberpunk: Neuromancer 1st, then remainder of books by Gibson, Effinger's books & Bruce Sterling's books, Snow Crash *Related themes, drug use, body enhancements, net running, etc.* The Modular Man - Roger MacBride Allen The Taking of Satcom Station - Jim Baen/ Barney Cohen Johnny Zed - John Gregory Betancourt A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Synners - Pat Cadigan () Mindplayers - Pat Cadigan Fools - Pat Cadigan Cyteen I - C.J. Cherryh Cyteen II - C.J. Cherryh Cyteen III - C.J. Cherryh The Forever Machine - Frank Riley, Mark Clifton Svaha - Charles de Lint The Quicksilver Screen - Don H. DeBrandt () Silico Sapiens - Joseph Deken Sleepwalker's World - Gordon Dickson Company Man - Joe Clifford Faust Harmonies of the Net - Jane Fancher 2XS - Nigel Findley In the Country of the Blind - Michael Flynn When Harlie was One - David Gerrold Aiki - John Gilbert The God Game - Andrew Greeley The Mutants Are Coming - Isodore Haiblum The Schizogenic Man - Raymond Harris The Turing Option - Harry Harrison, Marvin Minsky Psychodrome, Psychodrome II - Simon Hawke Friday - Robert Heinlein Giant's Star, Entroverse - James Hogan Tower to the Sky - Philip C. Jennings Dr. Adder - K.W. Jeter Mindhopper - James B. Johnson Kalifornia - Marc Laidlaw Electric Forest - Tanith Lee The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem This Perfect Day - Ira Levin Cybernetic Jungle - S.N. Lewit Halo - Tom Maddox Glass Houses - Laura J. Mixon () (light lesbian issues) The Cybernetic Samurai - Victor Milan Emerald Eyes - Daniel Keys Moran Oath of Fealty - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Lethal Interface - Mel Odom The Annals of the Heechee - Fredric Pohl Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Singularities - W.T. Quick Dreams of Flesh and Sand - W.T. Quick Dreams of God and Men - W.T. Quick Mindkiller - Spider Robinson Time Pressure - Spider Robinson Mind Tools - Rudy Rucker Space Time Donuts - Rudy Rucker Destroying Angel - Richard Paul Russo The Adolescence of Pi - Thomas P. Ryan Hunter/Victim - Robert Scheckley The Tenth Victim - Robert Scheckley Alongside Night - J. Neil Schulman Proteus Unbound - Charles Sheffield Sight of Proteus - Charles Sheffield Frontera - Lewis Shiner Slam - Lewis Shiner Eclipse - John Shirley Eclipse Penumbra - John Shirley Eclipse Corona - John Shirley City Come A-Walkin' - John Shirley Shaman - John Shirley Tom Paine Maru - L. Neil Smith The Iron Dream - Norman Spinrad Little Heroes - Norman Spinrad The Artificial Kid - Bruce Sterling The Difference Engine - Bruce Sterling, Wm. Gibson In the Drift - Michael Swanwick Chains of Light - Quentin Thomas Crygender -Thomas T Thomas (gay themes) The Ophiuchi Hotline - John Varley Marooned in Realtime - Vernor Vinge Cat's Paw - Joan Vinge Mercedes Nights - Michael D. Weaver Lifeburst - Jack Willamson Angel Station - Walter Jon Williams Aristoi - Walter Jon Williams Memory Wire - Rober Charles Wilson Borderlands - Terri Windling (ed) Bordertown - Terri Windling (ed) Masterplay - William F. Wu Cobra - Timothy Zahn Cobra Bargain - Timothy Zahn Cobra Strike - Timothy Zahn Alien Speedway - Roger Zelazny Lord of Light - Roger Zelazny *Misc* The following books are listed as cyberpunk like worlds or themes, I've not seen them, don't know anything about them and they may be old and hard to find. Ciphers - DeFilippo Metrophage - Richard Kadrey Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim Bey The Silicon Man - Charles Platt Red Spider, White Web - Misha Ambient - Jack Womack *Non-Science Fiction* The following is a list of books that are either precursors to cyberpunk, ie. Wm. Burroughs is credited with influencing cyberpunk writers, or are newer works with cyberpunk type themes, cut up, dark worlds, fast, though they are not science fiction, ie. Acker, Leyner. The Wild Boys - Wm. Burroughs The Soft Machine - Wm. Burroughs Nova Express- Wm. Burroughs Interzone - Wm. Burroughs Empire of the Senseless - Kathy Acker My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist - Mark Leyner Et Tu, Babe - Mark Leyner ------------------- | | | MUSIC | | | ------------------- Music.....What is Cyberpunk music? Well, that's probably as varied as the cyberpunk. Hackers (lunatic fringe programmers) claimed only Heavy or Speed Metal, turned up loud, worked for them. Industrial has become a "cyberpunk" genre...kind of like...a decaying industrialist society meets technology and you get death pangs and noise. Mondoids lean toward techno/rave/house/trance/ambient.....the younger slacker generation's WOODSTOCK. The only thing I can say is......sample it! Personally, I enjoy Techno/Rave/Trance/Ambient and some industrial. I'm into the synths, drum machines, and samples of "My Generation" - TV and Movies. The beats are fast, 130 bmp... just like things around me - information, technology and time. Yep, I'm a candidate for a rave and soon as I can get some people to go, I want to check one out. In this section, all I want to do is list some of the stuff I really enjoy. Groups mostly, names you might have heard or as soon as you start reading some of the stuff listed above you WILL hear. I'm only listing names of groups and not specific CDs, mostly because these groups only have one or two CDs released. There are tons of compilations available - check Tower or the Dupont Kemp Mill in the techno section (Hot Tip: some of the Berlin, German compilations are good stuff). If you dance at Tracks or actually probably any place now you've heard some of this stuff. (Hey, I even heard some techno on WHFS!!!) Industrial The Shaman Front Line Assembly Techno/Rave Moby 2 Unlimited Digital Orgasm Finitribe Dynamix II BKS EON 68000 Utah Saints Lords of Acid Sunscreem T99 Rave/House Snap Rave/Trance Drug Free America S.U.N. Fortran 5 Ambient The Orb Orbital 777 808 State Brian Eno Popular Technopop - Information Society These are MY classifications... some overlap, Industrial to me is more noise, Techno/Rave is "techno", Rave/House to me has a more urban "black" feel - ie rap, Rave/Trance - softer techno, more melodic, trance state, Ambient - softer or experimental, ie "New Age Techno." ________________________________________________ | | | EMAIL LISTINGS | | INTERNET, ETC. | |______________________________________________| WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING : WARNING I am providing these only on the condition that you follow Jon's rules for Internet Mailings. Please see QA=*NII1 (Network, Internet, Info. files, Area 1), NO-NO.TXT about the difference between mail and mailing lists, etc. I personally have Internet access via work and will use that avenue for this information. FringWare Email List for "people who hang out on the Fringes of art, society and technology," Ask for Catalog or join list: fringeware@wixer.cactus.org Future Culture Mailing List Tomorrow's Reality Today. Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Raves, Computer Underground. future-request@nyx.cs.du.edu USENET - alt.hackers alt.cyberpunk --------------------------------------------------------------- | CYBERPUNK CHECKLIST | | "you know your not in Kansas anymore when: | --------------------------------------------------------------- * Technology shapes your life and, like the Italian Futurists, you love it. Like Andy Warhol, you want to be a machine. * You find yourself adjusting to speedshifts of trends like a dolphin riding shockwaves at the bow of a ship. Turbulence alone is a turn-on. * Nonetheless, multinationals control your life by controlling vast databanks, the new powerbase at the end of this millennium. * Your dimension is pervaded by high-tech affectless lowlifes - postpunk criminal outsiders, hustlers, anarachists, black marketeers - whose primary motivation is survival. * Experience is time-dated. You want it fresh and new in any form: designer drugs, satellite dishes, video games and recorders, digital cassettes, high- definition television, MTV logos. Good sex is new software. * You adore Ridley Scott's Blade Runner but can't understand why people think of its intensity, vitality, and dark humor as science fiction. You think they should just look outside their windows. * You feel old at twenty-five. MONDO 2000 I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS RESOURCE LIST!! If you find other things that you think I would be interested in or you think I should add to this list... please contact me here on GLIB - ALISON PLAYS, or in case this gets out on the net... Alison.Plays@Glib.Org "Let's do SMART DRUGS and SURF this BBS....." Cowboy "Neurons are a girl's best friend, dance on my brain." The Quicksilver Screen