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X-Risks cover and Electronic Release Date!

We're excited to finally show you the cover of X-Risks, by the talented and amazing Mark Molnar! If you thought a swarm of nanomachines was just ... pesky ... maybe you haven't yet seen them disassemble an entire moon?
X-Risks
X-Risks details the dangers facing transhumanity:
  • Over 60 creature and machine descriptions, classified by challenge level.
  • Information on extinction threats, from AIs and aliens to nanoplagues and wormholes.
  • Coverage of the TITANs, exhumans, exsurgent virus, Factors, and other hostiles.
  • New exsurgent virus strains, psi sleights, and xenofungi.
  • Traps for high-tech dungeon crawls.

X-Risks Electronic Release

After the Fall: The Cover!

Over the last few weeks we've announced the full author list and table of contents for After the Fall—now it's time to show you the cover!
We're using the classic Eclipse Phase cover art, but in a different style so you get a closer look at our in-peril agent. Eclipse Phase: After the Fall is on track for an electronic release in January! In a world of transhuman survival and horror, technology allows the re-shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone. Other threats lurk in the devastated habitats of the Fall, dangers both familiar and alien.

After the Fall Table of Contents

Last week we announced the author list for [i][url=http://eclipsephase.com/releases/after-the-fall]After the Fall,[/url][/i] and this week you get the complete list of stories that will be inside the anthology. Dive in! [h2]After the Fall Table of Contents[/h2] [b]Eclipse Phase[/b] A Primer on Transhuman Survival [b]White Hempen Sleeves — Ken Liu[/b] How far will you go to experience the ultimate transhuman taboo? With enough wealth, longevity, and power, anything is possible, but the cost might be more than you can imagine. [b]Spiritus Ex Orcinus — Tiffany Trent[/b] After one too many rebellions, a cetacean uplift has been resleeved into human form and enslaved to mind a pharma's deep-sea factories. She is on the verge of giving up hope when a legend steps out of the shadows and offers her a once in a universe opportunity: to find the last living Earth whale. It is everything she has dreamed of, but Earth is nothing like what it was, and dreams are sometimes deadly. [b]Into the White — Jack Graham[/b]

After The Fall, a New Science Fiction Anthology from Posthuman Studios

It was the dawn of a new era, a technological and biological golden age for humanity. They had attained the stars, surmounted their weak physical shells, and found the cusp of a technological utopia. But those days slipped from their grasp, and now conflict runs rampant in the solar system. AIs and transhumanity struggle for survival, for balance, for a new golden age. Their stories are many. [i][url=http://eclipsephase.com/releases/after-the-fall]After the Fall[/url][/i] is the first anthology from Posthuman Studios, set in the world of Eclipse Phase, their award-winning roleplaying game. The anthology will be a mix of old and new fiction, including stories by Eclipse Phase favorites—Nathaniel Dean, Jack Graham, Steve Mohan, and Rob Boyle and Davidson Cole. New fiction will feature science fiction rising stars Ken Liu, Madeline Ashby, Fran Wilde, Karin Lowachee, Wesley Schneider, and Andrew Penn Romine.

Firewall Pre-Order, Street Date, and Previews!

We're very happy to announce that the Street Date for Firewall is July 8th! Please contact your local game store and ask them to reserve a copy for you, and when you do so, please point them to our Firewall Sell Sheet, which has all the vital stats that retailers want when ordering and selling books! If you don't have a local game store, you can pre-order Firewall directly from us, until July 1st. Firewall will be shipped to pre-order customers within a week of July 1st, so it should arrive domestically roughly around the July 8th street date, and internationally shortly after it. You can use the same login information on PosthumanStudios.com as you use on EclipsePhase.com.

April: Not So Cruel at PS+

Here's a quick update on what the Posthumans have been up to over the last month. The big news for April was the release of The Devotees, the longest scenario we've released to date for Eclipse Phase. Caleb Stokes took on some of the darkest subject matter in EP -- the trade in stolen egos -- and built a densely twisting story of x-risks and gangland double-crossing. The scenario features art by Andy Wright, Nathan Geppert, and Mark Molnar. And this book was my first outing as a developer (although Rob did jump in & save my potatoes a few times). If you didn't back our Kickstarter last year, you can get print and PDF copies of Devotees at Drivethru RPG. As usual, it's Creative Commons licensed, so there's probably a torrent somewhere out there, too.

Eclipse Phase - April Updates

As we near the launch of our kickstarter campaign for our next book, [i]Transhuman,[/i] we have a few news items we wanted to catch everyone up on.

First up, [url=http://eclipsephase.com/releases/sunward]Sunward: The Inner System[/url] is now back in stock and in stores once again. This is our second printing of the sourcebook and we're glad to have it available again! Note that we raised the cover price to $44.99.

Second, [url=http://eclipsephase.com/releases/rimward-outer-system]Rimward: The Outer System[/url] has been nominated for an Origins Award for Best Roleplaying Supplement! We're glad to see it get some recognition. If you're attending the Origins Game Fair this summer, please consider voting for it!

Transhuman Open Playtest and Kickstarter!

We have two major announcements regarding Transhuman, our upcoming Player's Guide for Eclipse Phase. First off, we had previously said that Transhuman material will be subject to an open playtest, and that open playtest starts today! We have created the Transhuman Playtest section on our forums, and the first material available for playtesting -- part of the Traits chapter -- is already posted! Everyone is free to participate in the playtest, all it takes is an account on our forums and some of your time and effort towards polishing Transhuman! Each chapter also has specific questions from us. Please read the chapter with the eye towards answering those questions. There are two threads in the Transhuman Playtest Forum for each chapter -- one for answering those questions, and another for all other discussion about that chapter.

Eclipse Phase in French Out This Week!

The long-awaited French translation of Eclipse Phase is out this week in France, courtesy of Black Book Editions! The standard books will be in stores and available for order via Black Book's site on Thursday. A slip-cased limited run collector's edition is also coming out, and Black Book tells us they still have some copies of that available for order.

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