Shout Out / Eclipse Phase

• One strain of nanovirus that was developed by the TITANs is called the Uzumaki. It causes the body of the infectee to erupt with fleshy growths in the shape of spirals. Similarly, Fractal Trolls, one organic Exsurgent enemy type, are humans who've gotten parts of their body turned into weaponized fractals.
• One way the Exsurgent virus manifests are "basilisk" attacks - images and video tailored to indoctrinate, if not outright kill, people who see it via making them think thoughts completely alien to their brain.
• Voight-Kampf is a Firewall agent. Unsurprisingly, it was a AI initially made for mundane usage that wished to expand its lifespan.
• Exsurgent victims turned into creatures are known as xenomorphs. Ironically, none described are Gigeresque.
• Now there is a lampshaded shoutout to Giger in the form of the Defiler exhuman clade, who have an explicitly ripped-off appearance and almost identical lifecycle, only new infections are implanted by stinger tail instead of Facehuggers.
• The Chickcharnie fluff has a discussion amongst Firewall operators that one of its upcoming variants is going to be an owlbear.
• Those who brave TITAN-infested Earth (and other TITAN-infested places) - with environmental hazards that defy time, space, science, and logic, and often come with strange visual anomalies, infested with mutants caused by a Hive Mind, in turn caused by a human conspiracy to unite humanity, under a strict military quarantine - to retrieve bizarre artifacts that are potentially useful/deadly and also defy scientific laws are known as stalkers. The book the video game is based on also receives a bit of reference, as one of the theories behind the Fall is that the alien...things that destroyed the Earth may have been doing the equivalent of getting rid of their junk, regardless of whether or not it harmed the local wildlife and their toys.
• Total Information (Tactical) Awareness was Trevor Goodchild's policy in Æon Flux.
• The various MARG (future MMO) listed in Sunward are obvious shout outs, like War of Wizards, Mecha Mash (which explicitly references Clans and the Star League), and Starfleet Command. Innsmouth Nights is explicitly stated to be based on the Cthulhu Mythos.
• One of the audio clips for the Continuity module is I'm sorry, I can't do that.
• In Gatecrashing, it's mentioned that one Angelina Germanotta is a member of a certain hedonistic space colony. She might be better known to you by another name...
• Lifeboat Foundation got renamed as the Lifeboat Project/Institute in one of the later chapters (regarding one of the origins of Firewall). Similarly for the Singularity Institute which just got changed to Singularity Foundation.
• In the introduction one character complains that she always gets sleeved in a chain smoker, kind of like Takeshi Kovacs. In addition, Cortical Stacks are borrowed from that setting, and only the hyper-rich get to buy functional immortality.
• Nanofabricators specialized for food production are called Makers.
• The anti-Consortium movement on Mars is known as "Barsoomians". This was intentional in-universe. For bonus points, many members are sleeved in red-skinned Ruster morphs.
  • Jae Park, a Barsoomian-sympathizing Firewall proxy, often goes by the alias "Jake Carter".
  • Jake Carter also comments on the Synthtaur morph's profile that the six-limbed sleeves are becoming popular in the Martian outback, and he's waiting to see one of them painted green with tusks.
• Despite the passing of many years and The Fall, Anonymous - in its /b/ configuration - still exists, is still trolling, still doesn't work for anyone, and still measures success based on how many laughs they can get out of what they do. The Griefer morph - a robot designed to be as annoying as possible by blaring unsilencable, unhackable, and unignorable images and sounds - ranging from really loud soundclips, stupid memes, gross images, etc. - wears a Guy Fawkes mask, a trademark of Anonymous.
• There's a Scum barge in the Jovian Trojans known as the "Kimiko Ross".
• One famous Scum fleet that circuits between Titan and Mars calls itself "Get Your Ass to Mars".
• One of the co-founders of Extropia is venture capitalist Petra Thiel, who is clearly some sort of relative of Peter Thiel. The Extropian corp "Scrye" is stated to be a descendant of one of her earlier companies - suggesting that she is not a relative, but a Gender Flip of Peter, who founded Palantir Technologies.^note Palantirs are magical artifacts made for scrying in Lord Of The Rings and other parts of its legendarium. Scrye is described as having a similar business model to Palantir Technologies; data analysis making use of wide-ranging surveillance.
• A treatise on the reputation economy is written by a "Professor Whuffie." In Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, "whuffie" is the name of the reputation economy's currency.
• The inorganic TITAN killbots strewn through Earth, all hellbent on removing non-TITAN forms, are called Hunter-Killers. Two aerial variants - a small, quad-rotor aerial drone and a much bigger fighter/bomber - are the same ones from the Terminator, save that the former relies on tearing off the heads of their enemies than gunning them down. Similarly, both TITA Ns and players have access to a Snyth made of liquid metal that can mimic people and objects, and solidify parts of itself as bladed or throwing weapons, just like the T-1000.
• In universe: A Martian colony made up primarily of uplifted apes has a half buried Statue of Liberty out the front and a habitat in the Jovian Trojans where the residents download into genderless biomorphs is called Winter
• The Reaper morph's fluff contains the "kill every motherfucker in the room" quote from Jackie Brown.
• "Grok" is a Psi-chi slight.
• One of the types of Basilisk Hacks is called a "YGBM" hack.
• It's been pointed out that the picture for the pregen synth character looks very similar to Iggy from Ergo Proxy.
• The Morph Recognition Guide introduces a variant of the Arachnoid morph called the Arachnikoma.
• One slogan used by Firewall mavericks is "bite my shiny metal ass."
• A noted neo-corvid Firewall Sentinel by the name of Lenore Kraa goes by the alias "Nevermore"
• The Maker and Sufi Nomads are desert-dwelling nomads that are slowly terraforming their hostile environment into something more lush and hospitable.
• Ny'knikiin are essentially Reavers - dreaded scavengers who use anything they come across, and fond of mind raping their victims (if they don't torture them to death, that is).
  • There are also a pack of Predator Exhumans who not only eat their victims, but also upload them into a simulation where they're hunted again and again until they snap and become new recruits.
• One of the X-Risks is a morph that is a giant, fanged brain, placed on spider-like mechanical legs.
• There is a roach-like bipedal insectoid morph called the Samsa.
• The Firewall project dedicated to studying TITAN tech (a potential Brown Note waiting to happen) is called CASE YELLOW KING.