Space 1889 RPG

Core Books, etc.

• Space 1889 RPG Book Heliograph reprint of 1st edition, softcover ukL 29.99
  based upon the premises that late nineteenth century's (largely gentleman) scientists' understanding of the universe is right, space is crossable by victorian steam & electro-mechanical technology, and that, in consequence, the "grat game" of imperial rivalry has spread out into the solar system...
  take off into the worlds that might have been, with your parties of dissolute heirs, well-intentioned missionaries, undercover imperial operatives, foreign legionnaire officers, international crooks who've found the major cities of earth temporarily too hot for their health, field-bound amateur archaeologists with unlikely theories to uncover evidence for (or alien burials and ancient artefacts to disturb), industrial plutocrats or their spoiled heirs on sight-seeing cruises...
  a role-playing game in which there truly are canals on Mars and jungles on Venus, and in which the natives of these planets have civilisations, cultures and gods, such as it was anticipated might be met in the works of edgar rice burroughs, c.l. moore, leigh brackett, marion zimmer bradley - or h.p. lovecraft...
  [n.b. map pages that were originally in colour now in b+w in this edition]
• Space 1889 RPG Book 1st edition, hardcover (out of stock & out of print, alas)
• Space 1889 Referee's Screen (out of stock & out of print, i fear)
  Plus 16pp (full-size format) booklet; Complete Combat Charts; Condensed NPC generation; New Rules for Melee Combat; Missile Combat; Animal Combat; & Unarmed Combat; Expanded Wound Recovery; Character Generation Refinements; Plus the Solar System-wide Famous Stikkit Clips! [1]
  [1] - well, across the Inner Planets at least; very possibly throughout the Asteroids, Planetoids, Jovian & Saturnian Moons too, by now.. ..maybe even the Neptunian...
• Cloudships & Gunboats & Sky Galleons of Mars ukL 13.99
  Coupling of all the original text, charts, and b+w ship plans from the above item, with those from the Sky Galleons of Mars boxed set.
  Both games are set in the Space 1889 universe, and may prove useful with an rpg, but they are playable without any of the other Space 1889 books.
• Cloudships & Gunboats (boxed) (out of print & out of stock; but see above item)
  6 detailed deck plan sheets (10 different ships); 60 full-colour stand-up characters with plastic bases; Shipwright's Handbook: ship construction rules, aerial navies of Earth; game stats and deck plans for 30 ships; ship records forms book.
• Conklin's Atlas of the Worlds & Cloud Captains of Mars (out of stock; believed out of print by wholesalers)
  Sourcebook coupled with a scenario-sourcebook; ken reports that the maps are b+w where originally they were in colour, and somewhat fuzzy b+w at that: e-mail Heliograph, the publishers, and request they reprint the Atlas with the maps in colour, or reprint the maps as a two-sided colour-printed poster, and include this with the referee(gm)'s screen!
• Ironclads and Ether Flyers (out of stock; apparently out of print)
  19th Century Aeronaval Warfare Game; sourcebook and minatures rules & scenarios for battles between seafaring battleships and aerial gunboats. Compatible with the Soldiers Companion and also with the Space 1889 game, Sky Galleons of Mars, q.v.
• Sky Galleons of Mars & Cloudships & Gunboats ukL 13.99
  Coupling of all the original text, charts, and b+w ship plans from the Sky Galleons of Mars boxed set, with those from Cloudships & Gunboats, q.v.
  Both games are set in the Space 1889 universe, and may prove useful with an rpg, but they are playable without any of the other Space 1889 books.
• Soldier's Companion ukL 19.99
  Space 1889 & also general 19th Century colonial war-gaming miniature rules, campaigning rules, integrating such a campaign into a Space 1889 campaign, more general source material, sample campaigns & scenarios, army, navy and aeronautical equipment, and Army Lists for Space 1889 Earth, Mars, Venus & Luna (the Earth's Moon)
  Useful and usable both in a Space 1889 setting, and in any other similar 19th Century setting, including that of the Deadlands RPG and "gaslight" Victorian era-set Call of Cthulhu RPG campaigns (especially those of a particular peculiar nature)

Adventures & Sourcebooks

• Beastmen of Mars ukL 6.99 (in stock, though out of print)
• Beastmen of Mars & Canal Priests of Mars ukL 14.99
• Canal Priests of Mars (out of stock & out of print)
• Canal Priests of Mars & Beastmen of Mars ukL 14.99
• Caravans of Mars ukL 6.99 (in stock, though out of print)
• Caravans of Mars & Steppelords of Mars ukL 14.99
• Cloud Captains of Mars & Conklin's Atlas of the Worlds (out of stock; believed out of print by wholesalers)
  scenario-sourcebook coupled with a sourcebook
• More Tales from the Ether (out of stock & out of print, but see next item down)
• More Tales from the Ether & Tales from the Ether ukL 14.99
  Coupling of both twin short scenario compendia
• Steppelords of Mars ukL 6.99 (in stock though, out of print)
• Steppelords of Mars & Caravans of Mars ukL 14.99
• Tales from the Ether (out of stock & out of print, but see next item down)
• Tales from the Ether & More Tales from the Ether ukL 14.99
  Coupling of the two short scenario compendia
• Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society Vol. 1 c. ukL 14.99 (out of stock)
  Collects issues one through four of the official Space 1889zine
• Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society Vol. 2 ukL 14.99 (out of stock)
  Collects issues five through eight of the official Space 1889zine
• Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society Vol. 3 ukL 13.99


• [advertised as "forthcoming in 1990", the Venus Sourcebook never appeared from GDW; 'twould be a fine thing, were Frank Chadwick to authorise and facilitate its appearance in time for the game's 120th anniversary, in 2009 [a]]
  [[a] - sourcebooks for Mercury, the Asteroids and the moons of Jupiter & Saturn wouldn't half be welcome - but i don't know whether these were ever planned in any detail.]

Fiction usable as loosely-associatable Sourcebooks

(September 2007: now got to customer order)

• The Log of the Astronef ukL 13.99 (out of stock)
  worldbook for the heavily-populated solar system of George Griffith's SF "Stories of Other Worlds", detailing the changes from the first trips into space by Lord Redgrave and his bride, Zaidie, in 1900, through 1920. With a Forgotten Futures rules summary, no other books are needed to run games with this
• Stories of Other Worlds & A Honeymoon in Space by George Griffith c. ukL 12
• Tsar Wars: Episode One: Angel of the Revolution c. ukL 10
• Tsar Wars: Episode Two: Syren of the Skies c. ukL 10