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nightingaelic · 11 months
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If you missed the Xbox Summer Showcase + Starfield Direct, here are the highlights:
Fable trailer featuring that awkward guy from The IT Club as a gardening giant
South of Midnight giving bayou blues and beasties
Obsidian's medieval fantasy romp Avowed, which looks like it's borrowing Outer Worlds graphics a bit
Cutesy Fallout 76 video celebrating the player base and hinting at an upcoming in-game journey to Atlantic City (???)
Jusant, a pretty rock climbing sci-fi adventure featuring a cute blob in a backpack
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty DLC official trailer with Escape from New York-style shenanigans, releasing September 26, 2023, possible new ending for V, LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO???!!!???
BioShock-ish time travel steampunk adventure called Clockwork Revolution that features a villainess with the coolest mohawk I've ever seen and ticky-tocky mustachioed killer robots
Star Wars Outlaws, 33 Immortals, Dungeons of Hinterberg, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Sea Of Thieves: The Legend Of Monkey Island, Microsoft Flight Simulator X Dune, Payday 3, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, Persona 3 Reload, Path of the Goddess, Towerborne, Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Cities: Skylines II, Elder Scrolls Online: Necrom, and a brand new Xbox in carbon black with the sickest Xbox console edit this side of TikTok
No leather jacket for Todd Howard, smh
An in-depth look at Starfield's gameplay, including character creation, weapons mods, ship mods, planets, space travel mechanics, combat, locations, inspirations, companions, and the one and only Vasco who can say your name (like Codsworth), and a release date of September 6, 2023
Starfield limited edition smartwatch, case, Xbox controller, and headset, coming soon to a tech review channel near you
Still no Elder Scrolls VI news
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tachyonpub · 5 years
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Happy birthday to the extraordinary, groundbreaking editor Ann VanderMeer
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Ann VanderMeer at Word of the South Festival, April 14 2018 (Photo: Michael Underwood)
The editor (or co-editor alongside her husband Jeff) of over a dozen anthologies, Ann VanderMeer served as Weird Tales editor-in-chief for five years and is currently an acquiring editor for Tor.com. Her acclaimed anthologies include the Steampunk trilogy (STEAMPUNK [2008], STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED [2010], STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION [2012]), THE NEW WEIRD (2008), The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015), The Bestiary (2015), and The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016). Her efforts have received numerous awards including the Hugo, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and LOCUS.
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VanderMeer co-wrote (with Jeff) THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010). She crafted the short story “Best Kosher Imaginary Animals Recipes” and many of the essays.
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She founded the groundbreaking Buzzcity Press, publishers of the magazine The Silver Web, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel Dradin, In Love, and International Horror Guild Award-winning The Divinity Student by Michael Cisco. With Jeff, VanderMeer started the press Cheeky Frawg which specializes in “quality, self-aware e-books.” Beyond the titles crafted by the duo, they have done the laudable work of publishing fiction from international writers that deserve more attention among English-language readers.
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All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Ann, a fantastically weird birthday.
For more info about STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Dan Jones (Tinketbots) Design by Elizabeth Story
For more info about THE NEW WEIRD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Ann Monn
For more info about THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by John Coulthart
For more info about STEAMPUNK, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Ann Monn
For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Dan Jones (Tinketbots) Design by Ann Monn
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ninja-muse · 5 years
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Read in 2019 Masterpost
Italics = 7-8 out of 10; Bold = 9-10 out of 10; Struck = unreviewed; * = in home library
Fantasy
Lies Sleeping - Ben Aaronovitch * In an Absent Dream - Seanan McGuire * The Kingdom of Copper - S.A. Chakraborty The Wolf in the Whale - Jordanna Max Brodsky Treason of Hawks - Lila Bowen That Ain’t Witchcraft - Seanan McGuire * A Labyrinth of Scions and Sorcery - Curtis Craddock Magic For Liars - Sarah Gailey Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse Blood of Tyrants - Naomi Novik * Blood Engines - T.A. Pratt Middlegame - Seanan McGuire The October Man - Ben Aaronovitch Grave Importance - Vivian Shaw The Unkindest Tide - Seanan McGuire The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
Rereads
Discount Armageddon, Midnight Blue-Light Special, Half-Off Ragnarok, and Pocket Apocalypse by Seanan McGuire *
Making Money, Unseen Academicals, Snuff, and Hogfather by Terry Pratchett *
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett *
Broken Homes, Foxglove Summer, and The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch *
DNF The Vampire Files, Volume Five - P.N. Elrod * DNF The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow
Science Fiction
Mutiny at Vesta - R.E. Stearns Bellwether - Connie Willis * Blindsight - Peter Watts * Ringworld - Larry Niven * The Nobody People - Bob Proehl Fortuna - Kristyn Merbeth
DNF A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers DNF Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente
Young Adult
Our Dark Duet - Victoria Schwab Hello Girls - Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju The Princess and the Fangirl - Ashley Poston Night of Cake and Puppets - Laini Taylor
DNF Dread Nation - Justina Ireland
Graphic Novels
Rivers of London, Vol. 6 - Ben Aaronovitch * America, Vol. 1 - Gabby Rivera * Shades of Magic, Vol. 1 - V.E. Schwab Moonstruck, Vol. 2 - Grace Ellis West Coast Avengers, Vol. 1 - Kelly Thompson The Prince and the Dressmaker - Jen Wang Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5 - G. Willow Wilson * The Unwritten, Vol. 7 - Mike Carey * Rivers of London, Vol. 7 - Ben Aaronovitch *
Middle Grade
From Night Owl to Dogfish - Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer The Shepherd’s Crown - Terry Pratchett *
Rereads
Wintersmith and I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett *
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett *
Romance
A Princess in Theory - Alyssa Cole Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston A Duke by Default - Alyssa Cole Well Met - Jen DeLuca My Fake Rake - Eva Leigh Once Ghosted, Twice Shy - Alyssa Cole •
Mystery
Murder Lo Mein - Vivien Chien Wonton Terror - Viven Chien The Alienist - Caleb Carr *
Other Fiction
Aces Abroad - George R.R. Martin, ed. * The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare * The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters - Balli Kaur Jaswal The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid A Bend in the Stars - Rachel Barenbaum Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded - Ann and Jeff Vandermeer * Amberlough- Lara Elena Donnelly The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett •
Rereads
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
DNF - City of Girls - Elizabeth Gilbert DNF - Donna Has Left the Building - Susan Jane Gilman DNF - Less - Andrew Sean Greer
Poetry
Monster Verse - Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust, ed. * The Complete Poems - John Donne
History
How to Be a Victorian - Ruth Goodman * How to Be a Tudor - Ruth Goodman David Bowie Made Me Gay - Darryl W. Bullock Heart of Europe - Peter H. Wilson *
True Crime
Death in the Air - Kate Winkler Dawson Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann Chase Darkness With Me - Billy Jensen The Kill Jar - J Reuben Appelman
Other Non-Fiction
Twisted Tales from Shakespeare - Richard Armour Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch The Survival Guide to British Columbia - Ian Ferguson In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond - John Zada * Giants, Cannibals and Monsters - Kathy Moskowitz Strain * The Curious Cures of Old England -Nigel Cawthorne *
Rereads - The Science of Discworld III by Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen, and Ian Stewart *
Skimmed for research
Songs of the Pacific Northwest by Jon Bartlett and Phil Thomas
Dead Horse on the Tulameen - Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat
Ask a Queer Chick - Lindsay King-Miller
Astrology, Magic, and Alchemy in Art - Matilde Battistini
Total First Time: 75 Total Rereads: 17 Total Skimmed: 4 DNFs: 8
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zueljin · 5 years
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We heard tale of a people farming mythos from cyclops with balista turrets so decided to try it ourselves. 15,000 Damage With One Shot to the eye! This will get nerfed but we decided to have some fun while we could and do some ATLAS Mythos Farming ⚓Sailvation Discord: http://bit.ly/2FvVsxZ A 3x3 PVE community server I put together with some friends for you guys to enjoy! For more information head on over to the Sailvation discord and get whitelisted! 💜FOLLOW MY STREAMS: http://bit.ly/2A7yaeb 🔴SEE MY STREAM VODS ON MY OTHER YOUTUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/ZueljinTV 🐘Server Hosting Provided by Logic Servers: http://bit.ly/2Sd61sV 🌎Atlas on Steam: http://bit.ly/2BzuEsQ Explorers will voyage to over 700 unique landmasses across 45,000 square kilometers, with thousands of Discovery Zones, and ten distinct world regions each having their own unique resources, creatures, secrets, and environment hazards! There is a separately PVE ATLAS for players who don't wish to play any PVP. Construct the Ship of Your Dreams, Plank by Plank! Build drydocks and start with a dinghy rowboat, basic raft, tiny sloop or nimble schooner, moving on up to your own versatile brigantine or titanic galleon capable of transporting hundreds of crew and extensive cargo. Captain your Crew! Recruit real players and AI crew from freeports or rescue seasoned crew from destroyed “Army of the Damned” shipwrecks to man distinct stations on your boat! Set sail and explore the ATLAS with them to gain experience and level up their stats or gear, as well as levelling your Ship. Pirate PVP to the Limit Everything is up for grabs including player’s ships, their crew, their pets, their forts, their land, and their booty. If you can get your hands on it, you can take it. Be the Hero or Villain you were meant to be MMO-scale character progression systems include, at launch, over 15 Disciplines with over 300 Skills, in a vast unlockable tree. New "Feat" system allows for active and passive bindable character abilities, while new stat-buff system allows innumerable abstract statistics to be modified by Skills, Items, and Armor. And now, everything has scalable stats, including structures, and can be progressively Upgraded! This is Who You Are Extensive character visual customization enables an endless range of realistic (and not-so-realistic) characters, with a vast array of sliders, morphs, muscle tones, and tweakable values. Endless Adventure Full Quest and Waypoint systems, with sub-quests and rewards, for major goals -- while procedural treasure maps and challenge zones also ensure there's always something new to find out over the horizon. Intense Action Tactical melee combat systems with blocks, parries, dodges, character motion, optional shields, stunning and strength-varying strikes, directional attacks, and more for use in either first or third person perspectives. Fists, swords, maces, blackjacks, daggers, and much more give you tremendous options to pick the right weapon for the job. Meanwhile, period-appropriate-weaponry with skill-based active reload systems include flintlock pistols, muskets, blunderbuss, and more -- just be sure to keep your powder dry! Creatures Great and Small More than 50 creatures at launch varying from breedable utilitarian farm animals & shoulder mounted parrots and monkeys that offer unique buffs, all the way to magical mermaids and gigantic sea monsters of legend. Creatures can be found in their logical regions, but take skill and tactics to tame using new mechanics, while also gaining the most benefit and fertility from their natural biomes. Ferry these temperamental creatures across the vast oceans in a virtual Noah's Ark to trade in exotic locales. Freeports to Meet & Greet Level-capped starter zones allow you to learn the ropes and meet new players in a safe space before you venture out into the great unknown. Where the wind and destiny takes you beyond that, is up to the gods! Powerful Mod and Server Functionalities Want to build a World War II Spitfire? Or a Flying Fortress bomber with fully walkable interior and gun stations, carrying troops loaded with machine guns and rocket launchers? How about an Arcadian Steampunk Airship floating through a cloud-world? These examples and much more are provided with the ATLAS Dev Kit, where you can make effectively create whatever large-scale MMO action game you want to see happen. The possibilities are endless! Stay tuned for more details on the extensive features and content of ATLAS. #Atlas #AtlasGameplay #ArkSurvivalMMO - - - - Merch: http://bit.ly/2SoJE3O Patreon:http://bit.ly/1goYJLu Twitter: http://twitter.com/zueljin Twitch: http://bit.ly/1goYJLv Instagram: instagram.com/zueljin ♫Intro Music by Dj Quads - The Society http://bit.ly/2A9mp6U
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solarpunks · 7 years
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World Weaver Press has acquired the rights to publish an English translation of the science fiction anthology Solarpunk – Histórias Ecológicas e Fantásticas em um Mundo Sustentável, originally published in 2012 by Editora Draco in São Paulo, Brazil. Solarpunk is an anthology of optimistic science fiction stories compiled by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, which envision a world run on renewable energies, featuring nine authors from Brazil and Portugal including Carlos Orsi, Telmo Marçal, Romeu Martins, Antonio Luiz M. Costa, Gabriel Cantareira, Daniel I. Dutra, André S. Silva, Roberta Spindler, and Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro. The anthology will be translated from Portuguese to English by Fábio Fernandes, and publication is expected in the first half of 2018. Portuguese artist José Baetas will create interior illustrations for the anthology. 
A Kickstarter campaign will run during the summer of 2017 to assist with translation costs!
ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGIST
Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro had two novelettes published in Brazilian Asimov’s: hard SF “Mythic Aliens” and “The Ethics of Treason”; the latter was the first alternative history story in Brazilian and Portuguese science fiction. His alternative history novelette “The Vampire of New Holland” won the Nova Award in 1996, while his SF novelette “The Daughter of the Predator” won the Nautilus in 1999. His main short fiction collections are: Other Histories…, The Vampire of New Holland, Other Brazils, Taikodom: Chronicles and The Best of Carla Cristina Pereira. Gerson has published four novels so far: Xochiquetzal: An Aztec Princess Among the Incas, The Guardian of Memory, The Adventures of the Vampire of Palmares and Strsangers in Paradise. He has edited eight short fiction anthologies so far: Phantastica Brasiliana, How Lustful my Alien Girl Was!, Vaporpunk, Dieselpunk, Solarpunk, Fantastic Erotica 1, Super-Heroes, and Dinosaurs.  Beyond the science fiction borders, he published Vita Vinum Est!: History of Wine in the Roman World.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Fábio Fernandes lives in São Paulo, Brazil. He has published two books so far, an essay on William Gibson’s fiction, A Construção do Imaginário Cyber, and a cyberpunk novel, Os Dias da Peste (both in Portuguese). Also a translator, he is responsible for the translation to Brazilian Portuguese of several SF novels, including Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and A Clockwork Orange. His short stories have been published online in Brazil, Portugal, Romania, the UK, New Zealand, and the USA, and also in Ann and Jeff VanderMeer’s Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded and Southern Fried Weirdness: Reconstruction (2011), The Apex Book of World SF, Vol 2, Stories for Chip. He co-edited (with Djibril al-Ayad) the postcolonial anthology We See a Different Frontier. He is a graduate of Clarion West (class of 2013), and a slush reader for Clarkesworld Magazine.
WHAT IS SOLARPUNK?
Solarpunk is an emerging subgenre of optimistic science fiction that imagines the radical possibility that we might not destroy ourselves and our planet (or that if we nearly do, we'll get it together after that). Like Cli-Fi, eco-speculation, and eco-weird, solarpunk engages with issues of climate change, renewable energies, and the politics of sustainability, and explores the implications of those changes through a human lens. While other types of climate fiction usually present a bleak, dystopian, or apocalyptic vision of the future, solarpunk is hopeful, often portraying unique adaptations to ecological challenges.
While there has been much discussion about solarpunk as an aesthetic, there are few defining texts that put these ideas into practice—which is one reason we felt it was so important to bring this Brazilian anthology to an English-speaking readership. Many of the works of Kim Stanley Robinson fit the description, especially Pacific Edge (1990) and New York 2140 (2017). Other anthologies of solarpunk short fiction include Wings of Renewal, edited by Claudie Arseneault and Brenda Pierson (2015), and Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, edited by Phoebe Wagner and Brontë Christopher Wieland (forthcoming 2017).
WWP editor-in-chief Sarena Ulibarri blogged about solarpunk last year, so if you're curious, check out her blog post The Brighter Futures of Solarpunk
Thank you to the team at Editora Draco for this opportunity!
(Via World Weaver Press Acquires English Rights To Brazilian Solarpunk Anthology)
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Vaporum is a grid-based, single-player & single-character dungeon crawler RPG seen from the first person perspective in an original steampunk setting. Inspired by old-school games like Dungeon Master I and II, the Eye of the Beholder series, and the most recent Legend of Grimrock I and II. Stranded in the middle of an ocean, in front of a gigantic tower, the hero has to find out what the place is, what happened there, and most importantly, who he is.
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tachyonpub · 6 years
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Happy birthday to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Jeff VanderMeer
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The New York Times bestselling writer, editor, teacher, and publisher, Jeff VanderMeer has won the Rhysling Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and most recently the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for Annihilation (2014), the first volume of The Southern Reach trilogy.  Other acclaimed fiction includes Borne (2017), the rest of The Southern Reach trilogy (Authority [2014] and Acceptance [2014]), Finch (2009) and Shriek: An Afterword (2006). Many of his shorter works have been collected in City of Saints and Madmen (2001), The Day Dali Died (2003), Secret Life (2004), Secret Lives (2008), The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories (2007; with Cat Rambo), THE THIRD BEAR (2010), and The Compass of his Bones and Other Stories (2011). The film Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson and based on the VanderMeer novel, premiered in early 2018 to rave reviews.
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VanderMeer co-edited several groundbreaking and popular anthologies including The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (2003; with Mark Roberts), THE NEW WEIRD (2008; with Ann VanderMeer), STEAMPUNK (2008; with Ann VanderMeer), STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED (2010; with Ann VanderMeer), The Weird (with Ann VanderMeer), The Time Traveler’s Almanac (2013; with Ann VanderMeer), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015; with Ann VanderMeer) and The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016; with Ann VanderMeer). Also with his wife Ann, VanderMeer produced THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010).
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Among his numerous nonfiction volumes are the acclaimed volumes BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER (2009), The Steampunk Bible (2011; with S. J. Chambers), and Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (2013).
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All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted Jeff a squidastic birthday!
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For more info about THE THIRD BEAR, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Jacob McMurray
For more info about THE NEW WEIRD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Ann Monn
For more info about STEAMPUNK, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Ann Monn
For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Dan Jones (Tinketbots)
Design by Ann Monn
For more info about THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by John Coulthart
For more info about BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by John Coulthart
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tachyonpub · 7 years
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Happy birthday to the extraordinary, groundbreaking editor Ann VanderMeer
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Ann VanderMeer at the 2014 Yale Writers’ Conference (Photo: CHION WOLF / WNPR)
The editor (or co-editor alongside her husband Jeff) of over a dozen anthologies, Ann VanderMeer served as WEIRD TALES editor-in-chief for five years and is currently an acquiring editor for Tor.com. Her acclaimed anthologies include the Steampunk trilogy (STEAMPUNK, STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION), THE NEW WEIRD, THE THACKERY T. LAMBSHEAD CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, THE WEIRD: A COMPENDIUM OF STRANGE AND DARK STORIES, SISTERS OF THE REVOLUTION: A FEMINIST SPECULATIVE FICTION ANTHOLOGY, THE BESTIARY, and THE BIG BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION. Her efforts have received numerous awards including the Hugo, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and LOCUS.
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VanderMeer co-wrote (with Jeff) THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS. She crafted the short story “Best Kosher Imaginary Animals Recipes” and many of the essays. 
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She founded the groundbreaking Buzzcity Press, publishers of the magazine THE SILVER WEB, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel DRADIN, IN LOVE, and International Horror Guild Award-winning THE DIVINITY STUDENT by Michael Cisco. With Jeff, VanderMeer started the press Cheeky Frawg which specializes in “quality, self-aware e-books.” Beyond the titles crafted by the duo, they have done the laudable work of publishing fiction from international writers that deserve more attention among English-language readers.
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All of us at Tachyon wish the amazing Ann, a fantastically weird birthday. 
For more info about STEAMPUNK, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Ann Monn
For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Dan Jones (Tinketbots)
Design by Ann Monn
For more info about STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Dan Jones (Tinketbots)
Design by Elizabeth Story
For more info about THE NEW WEIRD, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Ann Monn
For more info about THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by John Coulthart
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tachyonpub · 5 years
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Happy birthday to the vibrant Jaymee Goh
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Last year, fictioneer, poet, editrix, and critic Jaymee Goh joined the Tachyon staff as an editioral assistant. Beyond her duties with Tachyon, Goh has edited the anthologies The Omnibus of Doctor Bill Shakes and the Magnificent Ionic Pentatetrameter: A Steampunk’s Shakespeare Anthology (2012 with Matt Delman), The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia (2015 with Joyce Chng), and The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 11: Trials by Whiteness (2017). Her numerous acclaimed works of short fiction and critical essays have appeared in Lightspeed, Interfictions, Strange Horizons, STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION, Tor.com, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, and many others. Her short story “The Last Cheng Beng Gift” (Lightspeed September 2017) appeared in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and was read by Levar Burton on Levar Burton Reads.
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In 2017, Goh finished her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside with the dissertation, Shades of Sepia: Examining Eurocentrism and Whiteness in Relation to Multiculturalism in Steampunk Iconograpy, Fandom, and Culture Industry.
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Happy birthday to the amazing Jaymee. May you enjoy all the fancy chocolates you can devour. 
For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Dan Jones (Tinketbots)
Design by Ann Monn
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tachyonpub · 5 years
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Happy birthday to the New York Times bestselling and award-winning Jeff VanderMeer
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The New York Times bestselling writer, editor, teacher, and publisher, Jeff VanderMeer has won the Rhysling Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and most recently the Nebula and Shirley Jackson Awards for Annihilation (2014), the first volume of The Southern Reach trilogy.  Other acclaimed fiction includes Borne (2017), the rest of The Southern Reach trilogy (Authority [2014] and Acceptance [2014]), Finch (2009) and Shriek: An Afterword (2006). Many of his shorter works have been collected in City of Saints and Madmen (2001), The Day Dali Died (2003), Secret Life (2004), Secret Lives (2008), The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories (2007; with Cat Rambo), THE THIRD BEAR (2010), and The Compass of his Bones and Other Stories (2011). The film Annihilation, directed by Alex Garland and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tessa Thompson and based on the VanderMeer novel, premiered in 2018 to rave reviews.
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VanderMeer co-edited (unless otherwise noted all alongside award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer) several groundbreaking and popular anthologies including The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide To Eccentric & Discredited Diseases (2003; with Mark Roberts), THE NEW WEIRD (2008), STEAMPUNK (2008), STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED (2010), The Weird (2011), The Time Traveler’s Almanac (2013), Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015), The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016), and The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (2019). Also with Ann, he produced THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS (2010).
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Among his numerous nonfiction volumes are the acclaimed volumes BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER (2009), The Steampunk Bible (2011; with S. J. Chambers), and Wonderbook: The Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction (2013).
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All of us at Tachyon wish the multi-faceted Jeff a squidastic birthday, full of fungi and other things that creep in the darkness.
For more info about THE THIRD BEAR, visit the Tachyon page.
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For more info about THE NEW WEIRD, visit the Tachyon page.
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For more info about STEAMPUNK, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover by Ann Monn
For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.
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For more info about THE KOSHER GUIDE TO IMAGINARY ANIMALS, visit the Tachyon page.
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For more info about BOOKLIFE: STRATEGIES AND SURVIVAL TIPS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY WRITER, visit the Tachyon page.
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tachyonpub · 6 years
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Happy birthday to the incredible Jaymee Goh
Fictioneer, poet, editrix, and critic Jaymee Goh injected her signature vibrancy when, earlier this year, she joined Tachyon as Editorial Assistant.
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Goh edited the anthologies The Omnibus of Doctor Bill Shakes and the Magnificent Ionic Pentatetrameter: A Steampunk’s Shakespeare Anthology (2012 with Matt Delman), The Sea is Ours: Tales of Steampunk Southeast Asia (2015 with Joyce Chng), and The WisCon Chronicles Vol. 11: Trials by Whiteness (2017) and her numerous short fiction and critical essays have appeared in Lightspeed, Interfictions, Strange Horizons, STEAMPUNK III: STEAMPUNK REVOLUTION, Tor.com, and many others.
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In 2017, Goh finished her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Riverside with the dissertation, Shades of Sepia: Examining Eurocentrism and Whiteness in Relation to Multiculturalism in Steampunk Iconograpy, Fandom, and Culture Industry.
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Her short story “The Last Cheng Beng Gift” (Lightspeed September 2017) will appear in the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and was read by Levar Burton on Levar Burton Reads.
Happy birthday to the amazing Jaymee. Welcome to the Tachyon family. We’re very lucky to have you.
For more info about STEAMPUNK II: STEAMPUNK RELOADED, visit the Tachyon page.
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zueljin · 5 years
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We found the cutest penguins while yeti hunting in Atlas. We tamed one and brought it aboard our ship while we went out and hunted for mythos. ⚓Sailvation Discord: http://bit.ly/2FvVsxZ A 3x3 PVE community server I put together with some friends for you guys to enjoy! For more information head on over to the Sailvation discord and get whitelisted! 💜FOLLOW MY STREAMS: http://bit.ly/2A7yaeb 🔴SEE MY STREAM VODS ON MY OTHER YOUTUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/ZueljinTV 🐘Server Hosting Provided by Logic Servers: http://bit.ly/2Sd61sV 🌎Atlas on Steam: http://bit.ly/2BzuEsQ Explorers will voyage to over 700 unique landmasses across 45,000 square kilometers, with thousands of Discovery Zones, and ten distinct world regions each having their own unique resources, creatures, secrets, and environment hazards! There is a separately PVE ATLAS for players who don't wish to play any PVP. Construct the Ship of Your Dreams, Plank by Plank! Build drydocks and start with a dinghy rowboat, basic raft, tiny sloop or nimble schooner, moving on up to your own versatile brigantine or titanic galleon capable of transporting hundreds of crew and extensive cargo. Captain your Crew! Recruit real players and AI crew from freeports or rescue seasoned crew from destroyed “Army of the Damned” shipwrecks to man distinct stations on your boat! Set sail and explore the ATLAS with them to gain experience and level up their stats or gear, as well as levelling your Ship. Pirate PVP to the Limit Everything is up for grabs including player’s ships, their crew, their pets, their forts, their land, and their booty. If you can get your hands on it, you can take it. Be the Hero or Villain you were meant to be MMO-scale character progression systems include, at launch, over 15 Disciplines with over 300 Skills, in a vast unlockable tree. New "Feat" system allows for active and passive bindable character abilities, while new stat-buff system allows innumerable abstract statistics to be modified by Skills, Items, and Armor. And now, everything has scalable stats, including structures, and can be progressively Upgraded! This is Who You Are Extensive character visual customization enables an endless range of realistic (and not-so-realistic) characters, with a vast array of sliders, morphs, muscle tones, and tweakable values. Endless Adventure Full Quest and Waypoint systems, with sub-quests and rewards, for major goals -- while procedural treasure maps and challenge zones also ensure there's always something new to find out over the horizon. Intense Action Tactical melee combat systems with blocks, parries, dodges, character motion, optional shields, stunning and strength-varying strikes, directional attacks, and more for use in either first or third person perspectives. Fists, swords, maces, blackjacks, daggers, and much more give you tremendous options to pick the right weapon for the job. Meanwhile, period-appropriate-weaponry with skill-based active reload systems include flintlock pistols, muskets, blunderbuss, and more -- just be sure to keep your powder dry! Creatures Great and Small More than 50 creatures at launch varying from breedable utilitarian farm animals & shoulder mounted parrots and monkeys that offer unique buffs, all the way to magical mermaids and gigantic sea monsters of legend. Creatures can be found in their logical regions, but take skill and tactics to tame using new mechanics, while also gaining the most benefit and fertility from their natural biomes. Ferry these temperamental creatures across the vast oceans in a virtual Noah's Ark to trade in exotic locales. Freeports to Meet & Greet Level-capped starter zones allow you to learn the ropes and meet new players in a safe space before you venture out into the great unknown. Where the wind and destiny takes you beyond that, is up to the gods! Powerful Mod and Server Functionalities Want to build a World War II Spitfire? Or a Flying Fortress bomber with fully walkable interior and gun stations, carrying troops loaded with machine guns and rocket launchers? How about an Arcadian Steampunk Airship floating through a cloud-world? These examples and much more are provided with the ATLAS Dev Kit, where you can make effectively create whatever large-scale MMO action game you want to see happen. The possibilities are endless! Stay tuned for more details on the extensive features and content of ATLAS. #Atlas #AtlasGameplay #ArkSurvivalMMO - - - - Merch: http://bit.ly/2SoJE3O Patreon:http://bit.ly/1goYJLu Twitter: http://twitter.com/zueljin Twitch: http://bit.ly/1goYJLv Instagram: instagram.com/zueljin ♫Intro Music by Dj Quads - The Society http://bit.ly/2A9mp6U
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zueljin · 5 years
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We found the cutest penguins while yeti hunting in Atlas. We tamed one and brought it aboard our ship while we went out and hunted for mythos. ⚓Sailvation Discord: http://bit.ly/2FvVsxZ A 3x3 PVE community server I put together with some friends for you guys to enjoy! For more information head on over to the Sailvation discord and get whitelisted! 💜FOLLOW MY STREAMS: http://bit.ly/2A7yaeb 🔴SEE MY STREAM VODS ON MY OTHER YOUTUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/ZueljinTV 🐘Server Hosting Provided by Logic Servers: http://bit.ly/2Sd61sV 🌎Atlas on Steam: http://bit.ly/2BzuEsQ Explorers will voyage to over 700 unique landmasses across 45,000 square kilometers, with thousands of Discovery Zones, and ten distinct world regions each having their own unique resources, creatures, secrets, and environment hazards! There is a separately PVE ATLAS for players who don't wish to play any PVP. Construct the Ship of Your Dreams, Plank by Plank! Build drydocks and start with a dinghy rowboat, basic raft, tiny sloop or nimble schooner, moving on up to your own versatile brigantine or titanic galleon capable of transporting hundreds of crew and extensive cargo. Captain your Crew! Recruit real players and AI crew from freeports or rescue seasoned crew from destroyed “Army of the Damned” shipwrecks to man distinct stations on your boat! Set sail and explore the ATLAS with them to gain experience and level up their stats or gear, as well as levelling your Ship. Pirate PVP to the Limit Everything is up for grabs including player’s ships, their crew, their pets, their forts, their land, and their booty. If you can get your hands on it, you can take it. Be the Hero or Villain you were meant to be MMO-scale character progression systems include, at launch, over 15 Disciplines with over 300 Skills, in a vast unlockable tree. New "Feat" system allows for active and passive bindable character abilities, while new stat-buff system allows innumerable abstract statistics to be modified by Skills, Items, and Armor. And now, everything has scalable stats, including structures, and can be progressively Upgraded! This is Who You Are Extensive character visual customization enables an endless range of realistic (and not-so-realistic) characters, with a vast array of sliders, morphs, muscle tones, and tweakable values. Endless Adventure Full Quest and Waypoint systems, with sub-quests and rewards, for major goals -- while procedural treasure maps and challenge zones also ensure there's always something new to find out over the horizon. Intense Action Tactical melee combat systems with blocks, parries, dodges, character motion, optional shields, stunning and strength-varying strikes, directional attacks, and more for use in either first or third person perspectives. Fists, swords, maces, blackjacks, daggers, and much more give you tremendous options to pick the right weapon for the job. Meanwhile, period-appropriate-weaponry with skill-based active reload systems include flintlock pistols, muskets, blunderbuss, and more -- just be sure to keep your powder dry! Creatures Great and Small More than 50 creatures at launch varying from breedable utilitarian farm animals & shoulder mounted parrots and monkeys that offer unique buffs, all the way to magical mermaids and gigantic sea monsters of legend. Creatures can be found in their logical regions, but take skill and tactics to tame using new mechanics, while also gaining the most benefit and fertility from their natural biomes. Ferry these temperamental creatures across the vast oceans in a virtual Noah's Ark to trade in exotic locales. Freeports to Meet & Greet Level-capped starter zones allow you to learn the ropes and meet new players in a safe space before you venture out into the great unknown. Where the wind and destiny takes you beyond that, is up to the gods! Powerful Mod and Server Functionalities Want to build a World War II Spitfire? Or a Flying Fortress bomber with fully walkable interior and gun stations, carrying troops loaded with machine guns and rocket launchers? How about an Arcadian Steampunk Airship floating through a cloud-world? These examples and much more are provided with the ATLAS Dev Kit, where you can make effectively create whatever large-scale MMO action game you want to see happen. The possibilities are endless! Stay tuned for more details on the extensive features and content of ATLAS. #Atlas #AtlasGameplay #ArkSurvivalMMO - - - - Merch: http://bit.ly/2SoJE3O Patreon:http://bit.ly/1goYJLu Twitter: http://twitter.com/zueljin Twitch: http://bit.ly/1goYJLv Instagram: instagram.com/zueljin ♫Intro Music by Dj Quads - The Society http://bit.ly/2A9mp6U
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zueljin · 5 years
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We set out to fight Cyclops with our crew in hopes of getting thousands of Mythos. I paid the Ultimate price and lost a good friend but we found a method that works! ⚓Sailvation Discord: http://bit.ly/2FvVsxZ A 3x3 PVE community server I put together with some friends for you guys to enjoy! For more information head on over to the Sailvation discord and get whitelisted! 💜FOLLOW MY STREAMS: http://bit.ly/2A7yaeb 🔴SEE MY STREAM VODS ON MY OTHER YOUTUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/ZueljinTV 🐘Server Hosting Provided by Logic Servers: http://bit.ly/2Sd61sV 🌎Atlas on Steam: http://bit.ly/2BzuEsQ Explorers will voyage to over 700 unique landmasses across 45,000 square kilometers, with thousands of Discovery Zones, and ten distinct world regions each having their own unique resources, creatures, secrets, and environment hazards! There is a separately PVE ATLAS for players who don't wish to play any PVP. Construct the Ship of Your Dreams, Plank by Plank! Build drydocks and start with a dinghy rowboat, basic raft, tiny sloop or nimble schooner, moving on up to your own versatile brigantine or titanic galleon capable of transporting hundreds of crew and extensive cargo. Captain your Crew! Recruit real players and AI crew from freeports or rescue seasoned crew from destroyed “Army of the Damned” shipwrecks to man distinct stations on your boat! Set sail and explore the ATLAS with them to gain experience and level up their stats or gear, as well as levelling your Ship. Pirate PVP to the Limit Everything is up for grabs including player’s ships, their crew, their pets, their forts, their land, and their booty. If you can get your hands on it, you can take it. Be the Hero or Villain you were meant to be MMO-scale character progression systems include, at launch, over 15 Disciplines with over 300 Skills, in a vast unlockable tree. New "Feat" system allows for active and passive bindable character abilities, while new stat-buff system allows innumerable abstract statistics to be modified by Skills, Items, and Armor. And now, everything has scalable stats, including structures, and can be progressively Upgraded! This is Who You Are Extensive character visual customization enables an endless range of realistic (and not-so-realistic) characters, with a vast array of sliders, morphs, muscle tones, and tweakable values. Endless Adventure Full Quest and Waypoint systems, with sub-quests and rewards, for major goals -- while procedural treasure maps and challenge zones also ensure there's always something new to find out over the horizon. Intense Action Tactical melee combat systems with blocks, parries, dodges, character motion, optional shields, stunning and strength-varying strikes, directional attacks, and more for use in either first or third person perspectives. Fists, swords, maces, blackjacks, daggers, and much more give you tremendous options to pick the right weapon for the job. Meanwhile, period-appropriate-weaponry with skill-based active reload systems include flintlock pistols, muskets, blunderbuss, and more -- just be sure to keep your powder dry! Creatures Great and Small More than 50 creatures at launch varying from breedable utilitarian farm animals & shoulder mounted parrots and monkeys that offer unique buffs, all the way to magical mermaids and gigantic sea monsters of legend. Creatures can be found in their logical regions, but take skill and tactics to tame using new mechanics, while also gaining the most benefit and fertility from their natural biomes. Ferry these temperamental creatures across the vast oceans in a virtual Noah's Ark to trade in exotic locales. Freeports to Meet & Greet Level-capped starter zones allow you to learn the ropes and meet new players in a safe space before you venture out into the great unknown. Where the wind and destiny takes you beyond that, is up to the gods! Powerful Mod and Server Functionalities Want to build a World War II Spitfire? Or a Flying Fortress bomber with fully walkable interior and gun stations, carrying troops loaded with machine guns and rocket launchers? How about an Arcadian Steampunk Airship floating through a cloud-world? These examples and much more are provided with the ATLAS Dev Kit, where you can make effectively create whatever large-scale MMO action game you want to see happen. The possibilities are endless! Stay tuned for more details on the extensive features and content of ATLAS. #Atlas #AtlasGameplay #ArkSurvivalMMO - - - - Merch: http://bit.ly/2SoJE3O Patreon:http://bit.ly/1goYJLu Twitter: http://twitter.com/zueljin Twitch: http://bit.ly/1goYJLv Instagram: instagram.com/zueljin ♫Intro Music by Dj Quads - The Society http://bit.ly/2A9mp6U
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zueljin · 5 years
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Taming the beautiful and majestic tigers was such a great adventure! Veronica, Stub, Najsman and I have been very successful in our taming missions and in this one we not only tamed 4 awesome tigers but we found a rare blue colored giraffe! ⚓Sailvation Discord: http://bit.ly/2FvVsxZ A 3x3 PVE community server I put together with some friends for you guys to enjoy! For more information head on over to the Sailvation discord and get whitelisted! 💜FOLLOW MY STREAMS: http://bit.ly/2A7yaeb 🔴SEE MY STREAM VODS ON MY OTHER YOUTUBE CHANNEL: http://www.youtube.com/ZueljinTV 🐘Server Hosting Provided by Logic Servers: http://bit.ly/2Sd61sV 🌎Atlas on Steam: http://bit.ly/2BzuEsQ Explorers will voyage to over 700 unique landmasses across 45,000 square kilometers, with thousands of Discovery Zones, and ten distinct world regions each having their own unique resources, creatures, secrets, and environment hazards! There is a separately PVE ATLAS for players who don't wish to play any PVP. Construct the Ship of Your Dreams, Plank by Plank! Build drydocks and start with a dinghy rowboat, basic raft, tiny sloop or nimble schooner, moving on up to your own versatile brigantine or titanic galleon capable of transporting hundreds of crew and extensive cargo. Captain your Crew! Recruit real players and AI crew from freeports or rescue seasoned crew from destroyed “Army of the Damned” shipwrecks to man distinct stations on your boat! Set sail and explore the ATLAS with them to gain experience and level up their stats or gear, as well as levelling your Ship. Pirate PVP to the Limit Everything is up for grabs including player’s ships, their crew, their pets, their forts, their land, and their booty. If you can get your hands on it, you can take it. Be the Hero or Villain you were meant to be MMO-scale character progression systems include, at launch, over 15 Disciplines with over 300 Skills, in a vast unlockable tree. New "Feat" system allows for active and passive bindable character abilities, while new stat-buff system allows innumerable abstract statistics to be modified by Skills, Items, and Armor. And now, everything has scalable stats, including structures, and can be progressively Upgraded! This is Who You Are Extensive character visual customization enables an endless range of realistic (and not-so-realistic) characters, with a vast array of sliders, morphs, muscle tones, and tweakable values. Endless Adventure Full Quest and Waypoint systems, with sub-quests and rewards, for major goals -- while procedural treasure maps and challenge zones also ensure there's always something new to find out over the horizon. Intense Action Tactical melee combat systems with blocks, parries, dodges, character motion, optional shields, stunning and strength-varying strikes, directional attacks, and more for use in either first or third person perspectives. Fists, swords, maces, blackjacks, daggers, and much more give you tremendous options to pick the right weapon for the job. Meanwhile, period-appropriate-weaponry with skill-based active reload systems include flintlock pistols, muskets, blunderbuss, and more -- just be sure to keep your powder dry! Creatures Great and Small More than 50 creatures at launch varying from breedable utilitarian farm animals & shoulder mounted parrots and monkeys that offer unique buffs, all the way to magical mermaids and gigantic sea monsters of legend. Creatures can be found in their logical regions, but take skill and tactics to tame using new mechanics, while also gaining the most benefit and fertility from their natural biomes. Ferry these temperamental creatures across the vast oceans in a virtual Noah's Ark to trade in exotic locales. Freeports to Meet & Greet Level-capped starter zones allow you to learn the ropes and meet new players in a safe space before you venture out into the great unknown. Where the wind and destiny takes you beyond that, is up to the gods! Powerful Mod and Server Functionalities Want to build a World War II Spitfire? Or a Flying Fortress bomber with fully walkable interior and gun stations, carrying troops loaded with machine guns and rocket launchers? How about an Arcadian Steampunk Airship floating through a cloud-world? These examples and much more are provided with the ATLAS Dev Kit, where you can make effectively create whatever large-scale MMO action game you want to see happen. The possibilities are endless! Stay tuned for more details on the extensive features and content of ATLAS. #Atlas #AtlasGameplay #ArkSurvivalMMO - - - - Merch: http://bit.ly/2SoJE3O Patreon:http://bit.ly/1goYJLu Twitter: http://twitter.com/zueljin Twitch: http://bit.ly/1goYJLv Instagram: instagram.com/zueljin ♫Intro Music by Dj Quads - The Society http://bit.ly/2A9mp6U
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