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The Royal Martian Geographic Society's Guide to Space:1889 Products

by Mark Clark

Only the TRMGS reprints are currently in print as of November 1998. Many may still be availble from distributors... you may be able to ask your local retailer to try and order them for you.

GDW

GDW halted trading in 1996. Frank Chadwick currently holds all copyrights and trademarks to the game. The GDW part number is listed before title.

RULEBOOKS

1889    Space 1889
                -Hardcover rulebook

1981    Referee's Screen
                -Includes supplemental rulebook

1984    Soldier's Companion
                -Miniatures rules for Space 1889
                -Includes history of military on Mars

1891    Ironclads and Ether Flyers
                -Naval miniatures rules for Space 1889
                -Includes ship design rules

REFERENCE BOOKS

1983    Conklin's Atlas of the Worlds
                -General background material

note: "Venus Sourcebook" was listed in GDW's catalog
        but was never produced - no draft manuscript exists

ADVENTURES

1901    Tales from the Ether ***
                -Five short adventures, one on each planet
                -Description of Orbital Heliograph Station

1902    Beastmen of Mars **
                -Set in Martian highlands
                -Background of Steppe Martians

1903    Caravans of Mars *
                -Includes desert sourcebook
                -Information on Martian trade

1904    Steppelords of Mars *
                -Nomad tribes setting

1905    Cloud Captains of Mars ***
                -Set in Karkarham, "The Casablanca of Mars!"
                -Information on Red Captains
                -Additional ship designs

1906    More Tales from the Ether **
                -Four short adventures, all on Mars

1907    Canal Priests of Mars ***
                -Information on Ether liners
                -Martian Religion
                -Best published Space 1889 adventure

Ratings:        * Not bad
                ** Pretty good or contains essential information
                *** Great adventure and good information
Note: these are just my opinions, and are intended to help the novice
pick out what to buy first.  I own a copy of all these products and will
be happy to give more details.

BOXED GAMES

1890    Sky Galleons of Mars
                -Aerial Flyer combat board game
                -Only map of Martian Crown Colony (really!)

1892    Temple of the Beastmen
                -Combat in a Martian Kraag

1893    Cloudships & Gunboats
                -Deck plans of common aerial flyers
                -History of European aerial units on Mars
                -Cardboard figures (25mm)

MINIATURES

1821    Victorian Adventurers
                -Europeans, ten different figs

1841    Soldiers of the Queen
                -European Colonial Soldiers
                -21 figs, 10 poses

1842    Legions of Mars
                -Canal Martian Warriors
                -21 figs, 10 poses

1843    Kraag Warriors
                -High Martian Warriors
                -20 figs, 10 poses

1801    Martian Cloudships
                -Additional plastic models for Sky Galleons

1802    Aerial Gunboats
                -British plastic models for Sky Galleons

PERIODICALS

Ether Society News
        -Newsletter for Space 1889
        -Five issues published (0, 1-4)
        -Contents of issue 4 from issues 1 and 2 of TRMGS

Challenge Magazine
        -Every issue from #34 on (except 75) has a Space: 1889 article

note:  All GDW products except Challenge are out of print but most can
        still be obtained from distributors

PRODUCTS FROM OTHER COMPANIES

Game Tech

Miniatures

Lizard's Grin

25mm Colonials (includes 1889 Martian Artillery), 1/1200 19th Ironclads (includes ACW and Sky Galleons of Mars Expansion Ships), 20mm WWII Equipment.

3W

ADVENTURE

Savage and Soldier

Journal of 19th century colonial warfare. Vol. 24, No. 13 has series on Space: 1889. Itıs now an online zine.

TRMGS

Periodical

Transactions of the Royal Martian Geographical Society

Official Space: 1889 publication. Reprints of Issues 1­8 available from Heliograph, Inc. Issues originally 32 pages each with B&W artwork.

Dragonshead Publishing

Periodical

Journal of the Britanic Technological Society

The Familiar

Periodical

Starlance Publications

Periodical

Voyages SF

Posted Monday, 04-May-2009 19:53:34 EDT