Space: 1889 - Publications

Publications

• Space: 1889 by Frank Chadwick. The core rulebook for the role-playing game.
• Tales from the Ether (ed) Frank Chadwick and Loren Wiseman. Five adventures set on the planets and the British orbital heliograph station.
• More Tales from the Ether (ed) Frank Chadwick and Loren Wiseman. More short adventures on Mars and Venus.
• Beastmen of Mars by Lester Smith. A campaign dealing with debased Martians, liftwood, and some mysteries of the planets.
• Canal Priests of Mars by Marcus Rowland. A campaign that begins on the Earth, includes a voyage by ether liner to Mars, and concludes with a twist ending. The published version cut about a third of the author’s manuscript; Heliograph finally published the complete adventure as a PDF in July 2009, with a printed version to follow in August 2009. The Complete Canal Priests of Mars restores all of the original text and has new illustrations throughout.
• Steppelords of Mars by John Theisen. Source book on Hill Martian tribes.
• Caravans of Mars by Ed Andrews. Source book on Martian caravans and merchants.
• Cloud Captains of Mars by Frank Chadwick. Details on the sky pirates and privateers of Mars.
• Conklin’s Atlas and Handy Manual of the Worlds by Frank Chadwick. A gazetteer to the planets, including maps and information on Earth.
• Soldier’s Companion by Frank Chadwick. Rules for colonial ground warfare using miniatures, including detailed army lists, as well as rules for tripods and land juggernauts.
• Ironclads and Ether Flyers by Frank Chadwick. Rules for surface naval combat, including detailed information about Earth’s navies and flyers. The rules are a simplified version of Sky Galleons of Mars (see below).
• The Liftwood conspiracy (published under license by 3W) Scenario involving liftwood poaching, and the bestial High Martians.
• GDW's house magazine (Challenge) also contained material for the game.
• Heliograph's magazine Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society provided additional game material.
• Space 1889: Red Sands A Savage Worlds Plot Point Campaign to be published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group as a full-color hardback. The campaign "pits a desperate band of heroes against the Inner Circle of the Brotherhood of Luxor. The Brotherhood, led by the mysterious Kronos, King of the Titans, plots to bring about the end of all worlds." The expected release date is October, 2010, with a Gen Con debut in August.
• Space 1889 & Beyond - a new, fully licensed series of eBooks, launched in August 2011, from Untreed Reads Publishing. This new series is be spearheaded by Andy Frankham-Allen, who wrote for the short lived audio drama series produced by Noise Monster Productions in 2005/6.
• Space: 1889 published by Uhrwerk Verlag in July 2012 as 264 A4 pages full-color hardback, based on the Ubiquity rules. Sourcebooks of Venus an Mars are planned.
• Mars Needs Steam published by Test of Battle Games is planned in Fall 2012. Based on the Men Under Fire rules the rules focus on small unit actions and encounters.