Inspirations for the Sleepwalkers setting
There are several things that all fell together when I was trying to come up with the Sleepwalkers setting. In no particular order:
- the short story "Shaft Number 247" by Basil Copper, collected in Cthulhu 2000.
- the unpublished End Time project by Dr. Michael C. LaBossiere, which can be found here and there on the web
- S. John Ross's "Spacedock Stencil" font (seriously!)
- GURPS: Reign Of Steel by Daniel Pulver (author of Transhuman Space, which I have a webpage for as well)
- GURPS: Cthulhupunk by Chris McCubbin
- GURPS: Horror, 3rd Edition by Kenneth Hite (really, anything of his is good)
- the handful of episodes of the anime series Blue Gender that I've seen on the Cartoon Network
- not to mention all the other Lovercraftian stuff I've read over the years
- and last but not least, Fred Saberhagen's Berserker story "Wings out of Shadow"
PLUS
- the Brian Setzer Orchestra's cover version of "Sleepwalker," for the core idea.
After I get more of the important stuff out of the way, I might revisit this and try to figure out what influence led to what part of this setting.
There are also some good Cthulhu/Lovecraft RISUS pages already out there. You can find them at the Risus main page, along with other coolness.
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