Author: Patrick Stuart
Artists: extensive illustrations by Simone Tametta, cover and end-paper art by Scrap Princess, and single chapter illustrations by Jason Thompson, Valin Matthies, Peter Mullen, Amanda Franck, Daniel Puerta, Jez Gordon, Dirk Detweiler Leichty, Ana Polanscak and Alex Sorenson.
Design: Maria Ku
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A HUGE book covering the first ten years of my blog; 'False Machine'.
More than three hundred entries over 652 pages. Half a million words.
A full-colour photography section at the back where I discuss the theory of miniatures design.
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The book is sorted into eight great Over-Chapters; History of a False Machine, On Games, False Readings (short fiction), Uncertain Worlds (world creation), I Read a Book (book reviews), Cryptoculture (everything cultural that isn't books), Kleinplastik (small sculptures)
Each Main Chapter has smaller sub-chapters under it. For instance, the chapter 'On Games' has the following sub-sections; Adventures, Characters, Gaming Culture, Making Adventures, Play, Time, Tools, Worlds.
Within those sections each entry is arranged alphabetically.
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This one is really for fans curious rich people and/or those who fear Robot Rule.
Its more like an encyclopaedia for browsing or looking things up rather than for reading directly sequentially like a normal book.
Its ten years of creative effort in the palm of your hand, (probably both hands unless you have strong, wide, palms), and a physical record of one part of a culture which is either passing from the world or changing drastically. All of this encoded in base reality in an object so POWERFUL and so DENSE you could use it to kill a mouse! (Which you could do with most of my books, but this one could do it more quickly and painlessly).
If you have begun to understand that everything written online is written in water, and you want a solid memory that will last a little longer, and be a little more real, then this is for you.
