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Now available from As If Books:

Now available from As If Books:

Black Hole Run – a DayTrippers Adventure

The PCs travel to the survey station Perdurabo: a mobile space laboratory in orbit around a stellar black hole. Their mission is to perform a series of temporal resistance experiments just outside the Event Horizon – a dangerously near approach that has...

Watch the World Die

Watch the World Die is a collaborative narrative game allowing any number of players to create their own custom apocalypse. There are no winners, and everybody loses. Get ready to ruin everything. Are you planning a post-apocalyptic campaign? WTWD can help...

Other Borders

There are borders everyone sees: the looming fence with its sporadic observation platforms, the tags claiming this block or that in the name of a local gang or drug cartel, and the wrought-iron fences surrounding gated communities. There are borders that are...

ImageLabs User Guide

Covering all aspects of image generation from basic prompt engineering to advanced operations like inpainting and style conversions, the ImageLabs User Guide is your quick-start to creating your own AI-assisted original content today, using the ImageLabs AI...

BOGG

In the late 23rd century, the planet Bogg was discovered quite by accident when a hypershunt failed to reach its intended destination and a group of 3,000 human colonists was stranded there without any means of returning to Earth – a planet they have long...

UbiquiCity 2: UnderCurrents

Beneath the smartglass towers, hovering drones and digital advertisements of Union City's corporate elite, life on the streets follows its own cyber-organic rhythms... » Powerful corporations fight wars through proxies, and digital reality is the battlefield...

FRAGMENTS 1: Handjobs for Satan and Other Weird Tales

The latest release from As If Books! "Handjobs for Satan and Other Weird Tales" is the first book in Shawn Koch's "Fragments" series of bizarro anthologies, and we're proud to bring it to you! Here's the back cover blurb... THE UNIVERSE IS SHATTERING, mind...

COLLUDIUM ONE

COLLUDIUM ONE is a bundle of 17 indie RPGs and storygames by 15 small press designers for less than 40 bucks. Now Available at DrivethruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/288957/Colludium-One-small-press-games-BUNDLE

Shinobi Village Re-released

A narrativist ensemble game about secret ninja drama on a long-forgotten island, written by Joe Jeskiewicz, Jonathan Walton & Tod Foley, with a resolution system based on "Rock-Paper-Scissors." New re-release for 2022! Shinobi Village was an entry in...

Luminarium Two: Bright Manifest

Who would you hurt to achieve justice? Former war hero Jenna Ridley, seeking a new rebellion Intergalactic fugitive Trevor McVee, out to avenge his father's murder Shape-shifting killer Windicott Ames, fearful he'll never find peace As their dark paths lead...

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Preparation of your manuscript for publication in both print and electronic formats

Game Consultation

In-depth analysis and suggestions for improvement of game rules and organization

Documentation

Concise and comprehensive manuals and guides for your software or group activity

As If Websites

A surreal science-fiction reality-hopping roleplaying game

DayTrippersRPG.com

A directory of indie RPGs and storygames

Fictioneers.net

A collaborative anthology set in a fractopian world

UbiquiCity.com

A vision of the future, not utopian or dystopian, but fractured

ThisIsFractopia.com

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Thank you Tod Foley, for being such an integral part of our Publishing Team! Terrific and talented editor and loved by author. What a perfect combination.

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ImageLabs User Guide

ImageLabs User Guide

Covering all aspects of image generation from basic prompt engineering to advanced operations like inpainting and style conversions, the ImageLabs User Guide is your quick-start to creating your own AI-assisted original content today, using the ImageLabs AI Editor....

Anthropic Partnership

Anthropic Partnership

I've been accepted to the partners program at Anthropic, makers of the "Claude" AI. With access to the API and remote capabilities, you can look forward to groundbreaking new developments in interactive fiction bots and generative experiences, including the next...

DayTrippers GM Bot

DayTrippers GM Bot

DayTrippers GM Bot — Now On Poe!  Want to play a game but nobody's available to GM?  Come meet the GM Bot, and play some DayTrippers! https://poe.com/DayTrippersGM  

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Original Content

Fiction, nonfiction, technical articles, website content and marketing copy for the small and weird

Editorial Services

Proofreading, Line Editing, Copy Editing, Developmental Editing and Consulting for works of fiction

g

Information Architecture

Organization of content for optimal concision and understanding, on the web or in print

Publishing Services

Preparation of your manuscript for publication in both print and electronic formats

Game Consultation

In-depth analysis and suggestions for improvement of game rules and organization

Documentation

Concise and comprehensive manuals and guides for your software or group activity

Looking for a hybrid publisher?
As If Books publishes fiction (mostly of the speculative variety)
and games (mostly of the roleplaying variety).