The Stellar Beacon: Coded
The Stellar Beacon is a ‘zine that imagines better worlds to explore what could be radically different about our own. We experiment at the intersection of indie gaming and speculative fiction. In this issue you’ll find:
Better Living Through Technology? A seemingly benevolent AI guides this system in conflict. What choices will your players make in this Sci-Fi adventure by Richard Bellingham, creative director of the Fate Horror Toolkit and designer of Secret of Cats.
Marginalized Identities in Wuxia an essay by Jeannette Ng 吳志麗, winner of the Astounding award, is a deep dive into the varied ways identity is handled in Wuxia, a Chinese genre about martial heroes. Learn more about the history of Wuxia, interrogate its tropes, and appreciate it more fully!
The Other Woman An ornithophobic scientist travels to an unfamiliar part of the world to collect reports of a newly invented machine. A story by Alex Jennings author of The Ballad of Perilous Graves.
The Keystone Out of Your Arch and Phliasian Investigations by Rhysling Award winning poet Sonya Taaffe
This issue is available now!
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If you enjoy tales filled with optimism and hope, where players can paint a better future in bold primary colors, then you should get the Indie Groundbreaker nominated RPG Return to the Stars.
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