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Now available from As If Books:

Now available from As If Books:

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...

Luminarium One: Dark Evasion

How far would you go to get what you want? Pursuing the justice they desire, three desperate people from very different backgrounds find themselves on dark paths of their own making. As their lives become mysteriously intertwined... » Rogue spy Trevor McVee,...

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...

DayTrippers Core Rules

Inspired by the surrealistic science fiction of Moebius, Moorcock, Rucker, Weinbaum, Heinlein, Vance, and other masters of weirdness, the DayTrippers system can be used for either "GM-Lite" collaborative play or heavily-prepped campaigns. The system uses d6s...

UbiquiCity: Tales of the Fractopian Future

Nine authors collaborate to build a “Smart City” of the first world 100 years in the future, examining the results of projected modern trends such as ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, biotech, anti-aging and green technologies...

Golden Age Adventures

THE FUTURE AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE! DayTrippers Golden Age Adventures is now available in paperback, hardback, or PDF format for your science fiction campaigns! GOLDEN AGE ADVENTURES is an anthology of 16 roleplaying adventures based on "Golden Age" stories...

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...

UnNatural – A CORE World of Supernatural Adventure

Monsters, ghosts and demons are all real. You know this, because you kill them. Most people have no idea any of this is going on, and you like it that way. Let them sleep peacefully. You're the exception. The oddball. The watcher. The hunter. Fortunately,...

CORE Micro – Built to be Hacked

CORE MICRO is a hybrid roleplaying game engine: it uses traditional RPG concepts & narrativist techniques for character-driven emergent story. The design focuses on simplicity, speed, and improvization. Everything is on the same scale. All actions use a...

DayTrippers GameMasters Guide

Get ready for the next level of Auteur GameMastering: an infinite variety of surreal science fiction tales are waiting to emerge at your table. Psychic Content. Oracular Prep. Narrative Resolution. Vertical Control. High Bleed. You've played like this...

Under the As If imprint, I write, edit and publish fiction (mostly of the speculative variety) and games (mostly of the roleplaying variety).

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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

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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Books & Games

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Cups of Coffee

Random Testimonial:

“Tod’s efforts on my two-book ‘Luminarium’ series went above and beyond my expectations. Not only did his line edits fix my clunky verbiage, but his critique of plot points, repetition, and character arcs will make my books a much, much better read for those who pick them up.”

— Rick Rosenkranz
Sometimes I Write About Writing
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).