- First working microwave-spectrum invisibility "cloak" (video link)
- How black holes can leak (and allow FTL communications)
- Pluto may have an ocean
- Genetically-modified mouse sings like bird; may help develop language
- How many dwarfs are there?
Gatecrashing Preview and PDF Release!
We have another preview for Gatecrashing today -- this one includes the writeup on the exoplanet colony Sky Ark. This colony's focus is on providing a refuge for and repopulating the wildlife on Earth -- and also bringing extinct species back to life. It features a fantastic piece from Tom Garden of, hell yes, a synthmorph riding a dinosaur.
Download the preview here.
Even more exciting then the preview, however -- the Gatecrashing PDF is now available for sale on DriveThruRPG, just in time for the holidays! This is a PDF of the full book (clocking in at 200 pages), and like all of our PDFs, it is layered (for easy printing), bookmarked, and hyperlinked.
The Gatecrashing Hack Pack is also available, which includes the full PDF, roughly half the art from the book (20 pieces, 150DPI), an Omnigraffle file of the Wormhole Link Map, and a CC BY-SA licensed version of the Lorentzian Wormhole Diagram!
We haven't announced a street release date for Gatecrashing just yet, but we expect to do so soon after the holidays.
If it's been awhile since you've caught up with our electronic releases for Eclipse Phase, you can also check out Continuity and Bump in the Night!
Gatecrashing Preview: Gatecrashing Ops!
Check out our next preview of Gatecrashing — the first four pages of the Gatecrashing Ops chapter! This is the "Gatecrashing 101" chapter: what humanity knows about the gates, how they work, the basics of a gatecrashing mission, and more!
Dead Gatecrasher by James Wolf Strehle
(If you missed the first Gatecrashing preview, check it out here!)
Five for the Future 12-14-10
- Saturn's moon Rhea may have breathable atmosphere
- Cryovolcano found on Titan
- Ear biometrics
- Alternative prosthetic arm
- Is the future bisexual?
Gatecrashing Previews, Price Change, and PDF Street Date
We are pleased to announce that Gatecrashing, our next print Eclipse Phase title, is at the printers and all things are going well. Gatecrashing is slightly bigger than Sunward, clocking in at 200 full-color pages.
We aren't quite ready to announce the Street Date yet, as the holiday season is well-known to play havoc with printing and shipping schedules.
But before we get to the fun stuff of the next preview, we do have an important announcement, one that is less fun but necessary: Gatecrashing is going to cost $44.99 in print. Eclipse Phase titles are expensive to create and print, and to keep using the writers, artists, editors, and developers that have pushed Eclipse Phase to the quality it is at—both from a production and content point of view—we cannot sustain our titles at the previous price point.
We are choosing to tell you about this price raise now, more than a month before the book is available, so it doesn't come as a surprise when you pick the book off the shelf of your local store. This information is still propogating through distribution systems, so you will probably still see the previous price in some listings!
And now ... here's your first look at the Fissure Gate from Gatecrashing!
Enjoy, see you next Wednesday the 15th for the next preview, and the Wednesday after that, the Gatecrashing PDF goes on sale!