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GURPS Cyberpunk is a genre toolkit for cyberpunk-themed role-playing games set in a near-future...

GURPS Cyberpunk is a genre toolkit for cyberpunk-themed role-playing games set in a near-future dystopia, such as that envisioned by William Gibson in his influential novel Neuromancer. The main sourcebook for the line (ISBN 1-55634-168-7) was written by Loyd Blankenship and published by Steve Jackson Games in 1990, as a part of the extensive (3rd-edition) GURPS generic role-playing game system. In 1993, GURPS Cyberpunk Adventures — a collection of three RPG scenarios in the GURPS Cyberpunk line — won the Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Adventure of 1992. Besides the main chapters detailed below, GURPS Cyberpunk contains a 1-page glossary of common 'cyberpunk terms', an index, and a 2-page bibliography listing relevant books, short stories, comic books, graphic novels, magazines, electronic newsletters, movies and television titles. GURPS Cyberpunk received notoriety when the Austin headquarters of Steve Jackson Games was raided by the U.S. Secret Service in 1990. The authorities seized the manuscript for the sourcebook, which was under development at the time, asserting that it was a "handbook for computer crime". This raid is often attributed to Operation Sundevil, a