Starfinder Creative Director • James L. Sutter
Starfinder Creative Design Director • Sarah E. Robinson
Starfinder Design Leads • Robert G. McCreary and Owen K.C. Stephens
Starfinder Design Team • Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, John Compton, Amanda Hamon Kunz, Jason Keeley, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, and Mark Seifter
Authors • Alexander Augunas, Judy Bauer, Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, John Compton, Adam Daigle, Crystal Frasier, Lissa Guillet, Amanda Hamon Kunz, Thurston Hillman, Jason Keeley, Robert G. McCreary, Erik Mona, Mark Moreland, Jessica Price, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, F. Wesley Schneider, Amber E. Scott, Mark Seifter, Owen K.C. Stephens, James L. Sutter, and Josh Vogt
Starfinder Society Developer • Thurston Hillman

Cover Artist • Remko Troost
Interior Artists • Alexandur Alexandrov, David Alvarez, Rogier van de Beek, Leonardo Borazio, Tomasz Chistowski, Taylor Fischer, David Franco Campos, Sebastien Hue, Guido Kuip, Robert Lazzaretti, Mikaël Léger, Víctor Manuel Leza Moreno, Setiawan Lie, Damien Mammoliti, David Melvin, Mark Molnar, Mirco Paganessi, Jose Parodi, Miroslav Petrov, Hugh Pindur, Roberto Pitturru, Pixoloid Studios (Aleksandr Dochkin, Nothof Ferenc, Gaspar Gombos, David Metzger, and Mark Molnar), Maichol Quinto, Pavel Rtishev, Connor Sheehan, Firat Solhan, Remko Troost, Leon Tukker, Ben Wootten, and Joshua Wright

Editor-in-Chief • F. Wesley Schneider
Pathfinder Creative Director • James Jacobs
Senior Developer • Robert G. McCreary
Organized Play Lead Developer • John Compton
Developers • Adam Daigle, Crystal Frasier, Amanda Hamon Kunz, Mark Moreland, Owen K.C. Stephens, and Linda Zayas-Palmer
Managing Editor • Judy Bauer
Senior Editor • Christopher Carey
Editors • Jason Keeley, Lyz Liddell, Elisa Mader, Brad Matteson, Adrian Ng, Joe Pasini, Lacy Pellazar, and Josh Vogt
Lead Designer • Jason Bulmahn
Senior Designer • Stephen Radney-MacFarland
Designers • Logan Bonner and Mark Seifter
Art Director • Sonja Morris
Senior Graphic Designers • Emily Crowell and Adam Vick
Project Manager • Jessica Price
Organized Play Coordinator • Tonya Woldridge

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Literature

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot and Foundation series.

Baker, Kage. The Empress of Mars.

Barlowe, Wayne. Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials and Expedition.

Bear, Elizabeth. Jacob's Ladder trilogy.

Brackett, Leigh. Eric John Stark novels.

Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles.

Brin, David. Uplift Universe series.

Burroughs, Edgar Rice. Barsoom series.

Butler, Octavia E. Xenogenesis series.

Chalker, Jack L. The Four Lords of the Diamond series, the Saga of the Well World series, and Soul Rider series.

Cherryh, C. J. Alliance-Union series, Foreigner series, and Morgaine Cycle.

Cho, Zen. “The Four Generations of Chang E.”

Cixin, Liu. The Three-Body Problem.

Clarke, Arthur C. Childhood's End.

Corey, James S. A. The Expanse series.

Delany, Samuel R. The Fall of the Towers trilogy.

Doyle, Debra & Macdonald, James D. Mageworlds series.

Drake, David. Hammer's Slammers, The Reaches, and Seas of Venus.

Foster, Alan Dean. Humanx Commonwealth universe.

Frank, Pat. Alas, Babylon.

Gatewood, David (editor). Dark Beyond the Stars: A Space Opera Anthology.

Gibson, William. Neuromancer.

Gloss, Molly. The Dazzle of Day.

Griffith, Nicola. Ammonite.

Haldeman, Joe. The Forever War.

Hamilton, Peter F. The Commonwealth Saga.

Hao, Jingfang. “Invisible Planets.”

Heinlein, Robert A. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers.

Herbert, Frank. Dune.

Hurley, Kameron. The Stars Are Legion.

Jemisin, N. K. The Broken Earth series.

Jones, Diana Wynne. The Homeward Bounders.

Kaufman, Amie & Kristoff, Jay. The Illuminae Files series.

Kikuchi, Hideyuki. Vampire Hunter D.

Lackey, Mercedes (with Larry Dixon, Mark Shepherd, et alia). The SERRAted Edge series.

Lackey, Mercedes (with Rosemary Edghill and Ellen Guon). Bedlam Bard series.

Lafferty, Mur. Six Wakes.

Le Guin, Ursula K. Hainish Cycle.

Leckie, Ann. Imperial Radch trilogy.

Lee, Yoon Ha. Ninefox Gambit.

L'Engle, Madeleine. Time Quintet.

Lisle, Holly. Hunting the Corrigan's Blood.

McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonriders of Pern series.

Miéville, China. Embassytown.

Moon, Elizabeth. Once a Hero and Vatta's War series.

Moore, C. L. Northwest of Earth.

Naam, Ramez. The Nexus trilogy.

Niven, Larry. Known Space series.

Nix, Garth. Shade's Children.

Okorafor, Nnedi. Binti and The Shadow Speaker.

Perry, Steve. The Matador series.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Mars trilogy.

Roth, Veronica. Divergent series.

Russell, Mary Doria. The Sparrow.

Sagan, Carl. Contact.

Shinn, Sharon. Samaria series.

Simmons, Dan. Hyperion Cantos.

Singh, Vandana. “Somadeva: A Sky River Sutra.”

Smith, E. E. “Doc”. Lensman series and Skylark series.

Steakley, John. Armor.

Stephenson, Neal. The Diamond Age and Snow Crash.

Sussex, Lucy. “The Queen of Erewhon.”

Theodoridou, Natalia. “The Eleven Holy Numbers of the Mechanical Soul.”

Watts, Peter. Blindsight.

Weber, David. Honorverse series.

Wendig, Chuck. Star Wars: Aftermath.

Williams, Liz. Banner of Souls.

Wilson, Kai Ashante. A Taste of Honey.

Comics

Cabrera, Eva & Visaggio, Magdalene. Kim & Kim.

Cockrum, Dave. Starjammers.

De Landro, Valentine & DeConnick, Kelly Sue. Bitch Planet.

Diaz, Aaron. Dresden Codak.

Dragotta, Nick & Hickman, Jonathan. East of West.

Ezquerra, Carlos & Wagner, John. Judge Dredd series.

Faerber, Jay & Godlewski, Scott. Copperhead.

Gibson, Ian & Moore, Alan. The Ballad of Halo Jones.

Kellett, Dave. Drive.

Lee, Mindy & Wiebe, Kurtis J. Bounty.

Maihack, Mike. Cleopatra in Space.

Nightow, Yasuhiro. Trigun.

Pak, Greg. The Incredible Hulk: Planet Hulk.

Remender, Rick & Scalera, Matteo. Black Science.

Staples, Fiona & Vaughan, Brian K. Saga.

Tayler, Howard. Schlock Mercenary.

Valentino, Jim. Guardians of the Galaxy.

Video Games and Video Games Series

Aerannis

Borderlands

Dead Space

Destiny

Deus Ex

DOOM

Environmental Station Alpha

EVE Online

Final Fantasy

Halo

Mass Effect

Master of Orion

Metroid

Out of this World

Phantasy Star

Read Only Memories

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

Star Trek Online

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Starcraft

Stellaris

Syndicate

System Shock

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

Wing Commander

X-COM

Xenoblade Chronicles X

Film and Television

2001: A Space Odyssey. Dir. Stanley Kubrick.

Æon Flux. Dir. Peter Chung.

The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers. Creator Robert Mandell.

Alien series. Creator Dan O'Bannon.

Alien Nation. Dir. Graham Baker.

Avatar. Dir. James Cameron.

Babylon 5. Creator J. Michael Straczynski.

Battlestar Galactica. Creator Glen A. Larson.

The Big O. Creators Kazuyoshi Katayama & Keiichi Sato.

The Black Hole. Dir. Gary Nelson.

Blade Runner. Dir. Ridley Scott.

Blake's 7. Creator Terry Nation.

Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys. Creator Gordon Bressack.

Cosmos series. Creators Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan & Steven Soter.

Cowboy Bebop. Creator Shinichirō Watanabe.

Crumbs. Dir. Miguel Llansó.

District 9. Dir. Neill Blomkamp.

Doctor Who. Creators Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber & Donald Wilson.

Event Horizon. Dir. Paul W. S. Anderson.

Ex Machina. Dir. Alex Garland.

Farscape. Creator Rockne S. O'Bannon.

The Fifth Element. Dir. Luc Besson.

Firefly. Creator Joss Whedon.

Futurama. Creator Matt Groening.

Gravity. Dir. Alfonso Cuarón.

Guardians of the Galaxy. Dir. James Gunn.

Heavy Metal. Dir. Gerald Potterton.

Interstellar. Dir. Christopher Nolan.

Jason X. Dir. James Isaac.

John Carter. Dir. Andrew Stanton.

Jupiter Ascending. Dir. the Wachowskis.

Krull. Dir. Peter Yates.

The Last Starfighter. Dir. Nick Castle.

Macross. Creator Shōji Kawamori.

Mad Max series. Dir. George Miller.

The Martian. Dir. Ridley Scott.

The Matrix series. Creators the Wachowskis.

Metropolis (1927). Dir. Fritz Lang.

Metropolis (2001). Dir. Rintaro.

Minority Report. Dir. Steven Spielberg.

Moon. Dir. Duncan Jones.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki.

Pacific Rim. Dir. Guillermo del Toro.

Pitch Black. Dir. David Twohy.

Planet of the Apes (1968). Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner.

Predator. Dir. John McTiernan.

Pumzi. Dir. Wanuri Kahiu.

Robotech. Creator Carl Macek.

The Running Man. Dir. Paul Michael Glaser.

Serenity. Dir. Joss Whedon.

SilverHawks. Creators Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr.

Space Battleship Yamato. Creator Yoshinobu Nishizaki.

Stargate series. Creators Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich.

Starship Troopers. Dir. Paul Verhoeven.

Star Trek series. Creator Gene Roddenberry.

Star Wars series. Creator George Lucas.

Steven Universe. Creator Rebecca Sugar.

The Thing. Dir. John Carpenter.

Thundarr the Barbarian. Creator Steve Gerber.

Total Recall. Dir. Len Wiseman.

The Twilight Zone. Creator Rod Serling.

Westworld. Creators Lisa Joy & Jonathan Nolan.

Tabletop RPGs

Achtung! Cthulhu

Cyberpunk and Cyberpunk 2020

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks

Eclipse Phase

Firefly Role-Playing Game

Gamma World

Interface Zero 2.0

Lords of Creation

Mutant Chronicles

Numenera

Part-Time Gods

Pathfinder RPG: Iron Gods Adventure Path

Rifts

Shadowrun

SLA Industries

Space Opera

Spelljammer

Star Frontiers

Star Wars: Edge of the Empire

Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana

Torg

Traveller

Warhammer 40,000